Sky's Rowe now focusing on gaining Tour de France selection

With the temperature just half a dozen degrees above freezing and persistent rain occasionally taking on a more sleet-like consistency, the Tour de Yorkshire’s May Day start in Middlesbrough could easily have passed for Belgium in March. So it was perhaps not surprising that Sky’s Spring Classics specialist Luke Rowe had a glint in his eye when he exited his team bus and contemplated the race-deciding stage that lay ahead.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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