Ten months since he last raced due to a combination of injury and the havoc caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa’s great cycling hope, Nic Dlamini is back on the competitive saddle.
For 24-year-old Nic Dlamini, 2020 was supposed to be a breakthrough year – one where he would establish himself in the South African-owned NTT Pro Cycling team’s first choice lineup in the Grand Tours. He is finally going to enjoy that chance when he takes part in theDlamini is part of a seven-man NTT team for the first post-lockdown race since the season was suspended in March 2020.
“It’s been about 10 months since I rode a race so I’m excited and nervous. But I’m confident because I’ve done all the preparation, so I’m ready to get on the start line and have a number on my back. As a team manager, Riis has been successful and was in charge of the CSC team whose riders won the 2008 and 2010 Tour de France titles.
“And then the blood passport in the sport is still critical. If you want to dope now, you are going to have to dope 365 days a year because it records your traces and markers. If the authorities see that your levels start to go up in competition, it raises alarms. One they have flagged those anomalies, they will target a rider. It might take a year, but he will eventually make a mistake because the only way to then stay in the passport’s ‘range’ is to microdose continually.
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