Davide Formolo, who finished second in Liege-Bastogne-Liege in April, believes he can win the Classics in 2020. The Italian has moved from Bora-Hansgrohe to UAE Team Emirates, where he also aims to develop as a Grand Tour rider. [He has two consecutive years of best finishes in Grand Tours, finishing ninth overall at the Vuelta a España in 2016 and 10th at the Giro d'Italia. Formolo has been consistent in La Doyenne, finishing seventh in 2018 and behind Jacob Fuglsang in 2019.

"In the classics, I see that I already have the ability to win, but the same cannot be said for the Grand Tours," Formolo told La Gazzetta dello Sport. But I'm ready to learn from my past mistakes and fight for the top places."

"I trained too hard because I wanted to achieve good results and show everything. I already started at the start of the race in the best shape I could have been in, but a week later I was flat. They call it "overmotivation."

Formolo will race the Giro again in 2020, while Tadej Pogachar and Fabio Aru will line up in the Tour de France.

"In mid-January we will study time trial positions in Valencia. Their first race will be the Tour of the UAE, followed by Tirreno-Adriatico and then Milan-San Remo, where they will make their debut." He will have a training camp in the Teide mountains to prepare for Amstel, Flèche, and Liège, and will spend a week in Mount Etna before the Giro.

Formolo hopes to make the Italian team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after finishing second in the August test event.

In 2020, Formolo will make his debut in Milan-San Remo. La Classissima may not be a race tailored to Italian champions like the Ardennes Classics, but he will be racing with ambition.

"I dream of Milan-San Remo," he said. Maybe it's because it's my first time running it, maybe it's because it's the first monument of the season, maybe it's because I grew up watching it on TV, maybe it's because it has a unique charm, but really I dream of Milano-Sanremo."

Formolo, who turned 27 in October, tripled his professional win total for 2019 to three thanks to a stage win at the Volta a Catalunya and a victory in the Italian national championships.

"Maybe I lacked the desire to take risks," he said. To win, you have to risk losing."