After a Paris-Nice where Ben O'Connor's and Jayco-AIUI's promising early performance spiralled into a much more disappointing finale, the Australian is back at the Volta a Catalunya, a race where he's taken some top results in the past and where he's determined to set things back on the right track once again.
Second in the Paris-Nice team time trial for Jayco-AIUIa was a hugely encouraging moment for O'Connor and his team, pushing them into fourth overall and within striking distance of the lead. However, O'Connor's GC bid subsequently collapsed completely, with him losing a couple of minutes on the hilly stage 4 that was partly neutralised because of poor weather and even more in the echelon stage 48 hours later.
