The Continental teams in the Tour Colombia peloton are dotted with faces familiar from the WorldTour. Race leader Rodrigo Contreras had stints at QuickStep and Astana. His Nu Colombia teammate Sergio Henao won Paris-Nice in 2017. Giro d’Italia stage winner Jonathan Caicedo is here with Mexican squad Petrolike.
For most, the prospect of returning to the WorldTour seems a distant one, and in some cases, it isn’t even an ambition at all. Alejandro Osorio, however, is perhaps the exception to the rule, and the Colombian champion illustrated as much with his fine victory on stage 3, where he emerged from an elite group that included Rigoberto Urán and Egan Bernal at the end of a breathless circuit race around Tunja.
