Archie Ryan is going into his second season with Jumbo Visma after a really promising start last season despite the impact of the pandemic on his plans
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Archie Ryan, the young Irish rider who showed his potential on the climbs in Europe last year, stars alongside some of the biggest names in pro cycling in the Jumbo Visma team launch video for the season ahead.
The Irish teenager pops up speaking about his experience on the WorldTour outfit's Continental team so far and co-stars with the likes of Primoz Roglic and Wout van Aert in the video looking to the year ahead.
“I’m settling in really, it’s the dream team to be in
right now so I have no complaints at all,” he said.
“It has everything that the WorldTour team has but for
U23s,” he said of the Continental team of the same name.
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“It’s a dream come true, basically, for us. The whole
goal of the team is just to develop us into the best riders possible.
“So we essentially get everything sorted for us. It’s a
dream in a cycling team, basically; it doesn’t get much better than that.”
After a late season start due to Covid-19, Ryan rode the Albertina Baltyk-Karkonosze Tour (2.2) four-day race in Poland in September, which included some climbing which suited him.
On the final stage, with five 5km climbs, Ryan attacked
on the final ascent and forced a seven-man breakaway clear. That was enough for him to claim 7th overall and show
himself on the first climbs of the season.
At Ronde de l’Isard in September, one of the biggest U23 stage races
in the world, Ryan again excelled when the racing hit the big mountains;
his first time competing on that terrain.
On the opening stage he finished in the bunch – as compatriot
Ben Healy (Trinity Racing) was up the road taking 2nd place.
The following day, a split stage, Ryan’s team was 2nd in
the morning TTT. In the afternoon road race stage, finishing atop the
cat 1 Hospice de France climb, Ryan was 6th as the field split to
pieces.
He was 23rd the following day, on the summit of Ax-3 Domaines, and placed 7th on the final stage – at the front of a
chasing group after three mountain passes – with Ben Healy winning the day.
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