Brit Adam Yates will return to altitude to prepare to the Giro d’Italia following his victory at the O Gran Camino stage race in Spain this week.
Yates and the entire UAE Team Emirates-XRG Giro squad will decamp to Sierra Nevada in the weeks before the Italian grand tour.
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“We’re going to go there with a strong team and some options,” he said after sealing O Gran Camino victory. “We know the competition will be quite strong so I think it’s good we go with some options.
“We’ll see. First you have to have the legs, have the condition and hopefully the result will come.”
Yates’s win in northern Spain was built on his stage win on stage four, the first victory of his 2026 season.
The Lancastrian accelerated away four kilometres from the top of the short but steep Alto de Cabeza de Meda. By the time he reached the line he’d put Nordhagen and just over a minute into Pinarello.
The next day on the race’s final stage he just had to, as he put it “play it safe”, to protect his lead on the race’s final climbing test.
