Japan’s Yukiya Arashiro aiming for Tour return and to find his way in the Euro’ peloton

February 12th, 2010 admin

Thailand offers Japanese pros a warm winter training ground Packing his new BBox Bouygues Telecom team Colnago into a bag, ready to make the long trek to Europe from Thailand, Yukiya Arashiro was in fine spirits and looking fighting fit. It was February 7, and the 25-year-old from Okinawa had just taken his first win of the season in a Thai national-series race, a 72km criterium near Chiang Rai. “I rode it mostly for training, and to assess my form, which is good,” Arashiro said. “It was a criterium, but staged as a points race, so it was a bit like riding on the track. I attacked early and gained some good points, …


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