Fernando Gaviria is highly aware of the Spring Classics as he enters his second season with UAE Team Emirates. The Colombian, who is making a fresh start in 2020 after an injury-plagued 2019 season, has Milan - San Remo and Paris - Roubaix strongly in mind as he enters his fifth professional season.

The Colombian will reunite with former lead-out man and close friend Maximiliano Richeze this year, and the two will start the season at the Vuelta a San Juan. They will then head to Colombia and the UAE, where San Remo will be Gaviria's main early-season target.

"[The goal is] to win as many races as possible and to be in good condition for all the races where the team needs me," Gaviria told AS about his 2020 campaign. My dream is to win at the Monument."

"My favorite is Paris-Roubaix. I was going to race this race this year, but I woke up with a fever on the day of the race and the team manager wouldn't let me race. I don't know the race yet, so it's probably too early to try to win this year."

Gaviria certainly has an aptitude for cobblestones, having previously finished in the top 10 at Ghent-Wevelgem and Dwars door Hlaanderen.

Milan-San Remo is where the 25-year-old came closest to glory: debuting in 2016, Gaviria was the favorite to win the final sprint until he collided with Peter Sagan and fell. The following year, he finished fifth, five seconds behind winner Michał Kwiatkowski.

"There is also the first classic, Milan-San Remo. 'It's difficult and a good race for sprinters. It's difficult and a good race for sprinters. I'm one step away from winning and I'll try to run well on the day."

In 2020, Gaviria could return to the Tour de France after a one-year absence. He could have competed in the Tour de France last year after a knee injury forced him to abandon the race a week before the Giro d'Italia. However, he did not race until the Tour de Pollogne in August.

Gaviria eventually recovered to run the Vuelta a España and win two stages in the season-ending Tour of the West, but overall, 2019 was a year to put behind him.

"2019 was a bit difficult with equipment and feelings. 'My knee injury was one of the reasons for my bad year. It was hard to recover and I couldn't ride my bike for almost three months. [I had good days and bad days. But now it's over and I'm thinking about 2020. This year I learned that I have to be careful with my training and my diet.

"Right now, I'm trying to organize my schedule for the start of the season. I'll start with San Juan and then focus on the classics. Then I will decide again. But I think I will be in the Tour. I still have seven months to go, so I don't have that as a goal."