'I've done it a lot on my commute': How Ben O'Connor prophesied his Volta a Catalunya mountain top win to the kilometre

Remarkably, the first three stages of the race have been won by a trio of different Australians

Ben O'Connor
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Riders doing a reconnaissance of a course or a climb is not exactly novel - especially not in Catalonia where the majority of the peloton reside - but Ben O'Connor took his pre-race preparation to another level ahead of stage three of the Volta a Catalunya.

The AG2R Citroën rider had targeted stage success on the finishing climb of La Molina, a ski station in the Spanish Pyrenees that is ideally located between the Australian's two European bases of Andorra and Girona.

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