Einer Rubio extra motivated to thrive at 2024 Giro d'Italia: "Italy has become my second home"

Einer Rubio had a top-level Giro d'Italia 2023, taking a stage win in Crans Montana, one of the hardest of the race in last year's edition, and finishing eleventh overall, 10:43 behind winner Primoz Roglic. He looks to improve on that this year.

This year, Movistar Team's Colombian climber is hoping for another top-notch performance at the Corsa Rosa. At a pre-race press conference with teammates and compatriots Nairo Quintana and Fernando Gaviria, the 26-year-old climber answered several questions: "The Giro is very hard, we will have to be very attentive but it is also very good because we will know in what condition we are in and also the rivals how they are."

Einer is confident in the team that Movistar has taken to the Giro d'Italia, he sees potential to achieve something moderately important:

"We come here with a job well done since the beginning of the season, with a very promising team. I think if we look at the race strategically then we can do very well. Then, the Giro brings a lot of surprises, we will try to take advantage of them."

Finally, he spoke about Italy, where he has lived since he was 19 years old. His arrival at Vejus-TMF-Cicli Magnum2 in 2017 made him discover the country and he has been living there ever since:

"Italy has become my second home and I've been welcomed here at 19 years old. We'll already go down in the first week to the side where I live, the stage that finishes in Bocca della Selva (stage 10, ed.) is where I train a lot so we'll see how the race is placed, but yes, I'd like to be able to enjoy it."