Derek Gee's star keeps on rising. A stage win and overall victory at O Gran Camino, third overall at Tour of the Alps, a career-best Grand Tour with fourth overall at the Giro d'ltalia and now, Gee is the new Canadian road race champion. He inherits the maple leaf from teammate Mike Woods and he will now have the honour of wearing the Canadian jersey for the next year.
"It was a super hard race in super miserable conditions but we had a good team and we played the numbers. We ended up getting in a breakaway with Hugo and myself, and Luke Valenti and we raced really well together. Michael Leonard from Ineos was in great form saw we had to use the numbers to our advantage and I ended up going solo with about 70 kilometers to go. I managed to bring in home and Hugo made it a one-two so that was pretty special. I'm unbelievably excited to wear the maple leaf for the next 12 months. That's something I have always envied when I have seen it on other people, so I'm very excited to have that chance now."
-Derek Gee
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