The Tour de France starts in nice high gears. The Grande Boucle has chosen to start in Italy for this 111th edition and to honor the event it begins immediately with a very lively section, from Florence to Rimini, with 206 very lively and seven GPMs to climb.
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A stage that, due to its conformation, opens up to interesting scenarios. That is, to see the Big Six of this Tour to battle immediately: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) who are those who aim for yellow in Nice, but also the kings of one-day racing, the world champion Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Wout Van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike). Curiosity about the latter, whether he will make himself available to Vingegaard or will be able to run freely.
But behind them there are many pushing. In the UAE behind Pogacar there are men who would be happy with a day like this like Pavel Sivakov, Juan Ayuso, Adam Yates and Tim Wellens, while other prominent captains like Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla), RIchard Carapaz (EF Education Easypost) e Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos-Grenadiers) they will try to have their say. In Italy, whoever will try to emerge is definitely there Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-Easypost) which wants to honor the passage on the Italian roads and appeared in excellent shape. A few less chances for Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) which could still try the sortie.
TOUR DE FRANCE, THE FIRST STAGE FAVORITES’ MARKET
***** Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel
**** Primoz Roglic, Remco Evenepoel, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout Van Aert
*** Alberto Bettiol, Adam Yates, Juan Ayuso, Carlos Rodriguez, Simon Yates, Pello Bilbao, Stephen Williams
** Giulio Ciccone, David Gaudu, Felix Gall, Enric Mas, Romain Bardet, Magnus Cort, Michael Matthews, Egan Bernal, Lenny Martinez, Richard Carapaz
* Derek Gee, Davide Formolo, Guillaume Martin, Louis Meintjes, Luca Mozzato, Warren Barguil, Tim Wellens
