Seventh at the Alto do Foia and seventh at the Alto do Malhao – Tao Geoghegan Hart completed his first race in nine months with identical placings on the two summit finishes that featured in this year’s Volta ao Algarve and also a largely positive view of how he is bouncing back from his terrible accident on stage 11 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia.
The Lidl-Trek racer delivered a very similar interpretation to his performance on both climbs in the Algarve, saying on the Alto do Foia sumit that “I just missed a little bit in the final 500 metres to 200 metres to have the gas to really go” and that at Malhao “I’m still missing that real big acceleration.”
