An amateur cyclist has claimed the Strava KOM on Alpe d’Huez , bettering Visma-Lease a Bike rider Sepp Kuss ’s time by nine seconds.
Jack Burke, a 29-year-old from Canada who also holds the KOMs on Italy’s iconic Mortirolo and Stelvio passes , rode the 21 hairpins of Alpe d’Huez in 35 minutes and 56 seconds, beating Kuss’s best set during the 2022 Tour de France .
Burke’s latest scalp comes after he made a plea to professional teams to offer him a contract . “I’m still trying to chase my dream. I just want a chance to compete against the best,” he wrote on Strava.
Sharing the news of his Alpe d’Huez KOM on Instagram, he wrote: “2 years ago I was hit by a car & that ended my career. I was crushed to feel like I never lived up to my potential as an athlete. You can’t imagine how good it feels to feel like the old Jack again & that maybe I can still do this.
“I don’t know what I’m training for, but I’ll be ready when it shows up. I just love feeling like me again.” Pro cyclists make up six of the top 10 best Strava times on Alpe d’Huez Burke rode for a number of Continental teams between 2016 and 2022, representing Canada as an under-23 at the UCI World Championships. He has spent recent years competing in sportive events and KOM hunting.
In his final year as a junior in 2013, Burke returned a positive […]
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