Gianni Moscon has told an Italian newspaper he gained 8kg during the Tour de France, more than 10 per cent of the 70kg he weighed starting the three week event.
Having somewhat redeemed a very poor season with a great
ride at the Worlds in Yorkshire on Sunday, Moscon said his poor season was due
to overtraining.
He said his desire to work hard in training was too much
during the winter. He then went to Colombia early this year, on a Team Ineos
racing and training trip, and did too much there.
The Italian added when his racing schedule changed,
meaning he would ride the Tour rather than the Giro, he was unable to get the
rest he needed.
He believed his overtraining and his inability to get a
break of at least 10 days at some point had caused his poor season.
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And he also believed his gaining so much weight at the
Tour came as a result of his poor condition generally.
“I did hours and hours, and came back like a corpse,” he
said of his trip to Colombia after already training too hard. “I couldn’t
recover because I was never able to have 10 days off the bike.”
“After the classics I was supposed to do the Giro. Then
we changed plans and I did the Tour. But there was no opportunity to rest.
“If I’d known I had to prepare for the Tour de France
from the start, it would have been different. I worked with an exhausted body.
I got to the Tour tired before it began.
“After three weeks I was dead. Tiredness, retention (of
water), I was eating more. I swelled like a football,” he said of his time on
the Tour.
“I weighed myself when I got home and I was almost 80kg.
I had started the race around 70kg. I didn’t recognise myself.”
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