In-form Martin left out of Garmin-Cervelo Tour de France team
That although he was disappointed, he could understand the thinking behind his omission from the squad. Christian Vande Velde and Ryder Hesjedal will lead the team’s tilt at the overall standings, while Tom Danielson got the nod to offer them support in the mountains.Thor Hushovd and Tyler Farrar will offer the team an outlet in the sprints, while a quota of rouleurs, including David Millar and David Zabriskie, should round out the line-up.
“Every rider that’s going to the Tour de France is going for a reason,” Martin said. “I’d have been going to try and support the guys in the mountains but it’s the third week that’s the important one, and they needed to have confidence that I was going to be there. Having no experience of the Tour and with guys who are going there to get near the podium this year, they needed to be sure that I could be up there, but that didn’t fit this year.”
After missing out at the last minute due to a knee injury in 2009, Martin admitted that it was difficult to be told that he would have to wait another season before making his Tour debut, especially given that he has reached late June very much on song.
“Of course I’m disappointed, because I’m just coming into my top form,” Martin said. “But I’m still young. Maybe not so much in age as in maturity. I feel like I’ve a lot of development to go. You can tell that just by looking at me, I’m lacking a bit of strength on the flat.
“Obviously I’d like to test myself against the best riders in the world. It would have been great just to see what I could do at the Tour and see what I could achieve on the biggest stage, but it’s a case that the team’s got greater objectives now.”
One of those objectives is the team time trial, which has long been a favoured event of Garmin-Cervélo manager Jonathan Vaughters. However, Martin does not believe that the short 23km test, coming just two days into a three-week stage race, played a part in his exclusion from Garmin’s July plans.
“Not really, because with my punchiness as a rider, I’m actually not bad at the team time trial,” Martin said. “I performed quite well at the Giro last year. That’s not really an issue. It’s going to be a super fast TTT, and we’ve got a lot of strong guys for that event, but it’s just an objective in the team this year.
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