Nearly two months to the day after he abandoned the Itzulia Basque Country due to sickness, Juan Ayuso returns to racing at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes this Sunday with his sights set firmly on the fast-approaching Tour de France.
The 23-year-old Spaniard has spent three weeks training in Sierra Nevada and will now head the Lidl-Trek team's GC aspirations both in the week-long stage race and again in the Tour. In both events, he's widely seen as Spain's biggest hope of success on the GC front.
