After a busy season, Warren Barguil is already thinking about next year. The Giant Shimano rider, who finished 6th at the Tour of Beijing and 8th at the Tour of Spain, wants to make his debut in the Tour de France in 2015. Before this summer race, in July, he hopes to shine on spring races including the Ardennes.

He showed what he was capable on the three-week races. During its first year in the peloton, he took part in the Tour of Spain and won two stages, with panache. This season, he had to aim for a place in the overall classification. Despite a painful knee injury after a mid-race collision with a team car that almost caused him to abandon on the Ancares stage, just 24 hours before the Vuelta ended at Santiago de Compostela, Barguil took a very respectable eighth overall.

"First, I will focus on doing well on the Ardennes Classics, then start my build-up for the Tour de France and finally I will try to go to the World Championships, where the course could be good for me", Warren Barguil told Cyclingnews. "The Tour route, with so many mountain stages, is good for me, and there's not too much time trialling, either. Plus, it has a stage in Britanny, where I come from. I've ridden up that climb myself, of course, and I can vividly remember watching that Tour stage up the Mur-de-Bretagne in 2011 on TV."

This summer, the French riders were very beefy and Barguil wants to show we can count on him. "I saw they did a lot of great racing, which has made me even keener to take part and I'm very pleased with their results, and I hope to go to the Tour next year and do the best I can, too."