U23Cyclingzone, 27 April 2018
Over the last decade, Portugal has produced a few riders who have really put the country on the cycling map, especially Rui Costa, who became the country’s first UCI World Road Race champion back in 2013. The country has gone on to produce some great puncheurs and rouleurs, but is yet to produce a true mountain goat to match those coming out of their Iberian neighbours in Spain (although watching Amaro Antunes, no relation, of CCC Sprandi Polkowice this season will be very interesting as appears to have real pedigree in the mountains too). After leaving the UCI’s World Cycling Centre, Tiago Antunes has joined...