Race #1 The Tour Poitou – Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine, a chip little 2.1 variety of 4 phases, third stage is a flat 29km TT with the street phases being full of quick sharp surprising little partitions. The 4 French WT groups are joined by 9 massive PRT groups so it needs to be aggressive. Suppose principally younger sprinters like Penhoet, Warenskjold, Lonardi, Fretin, Tesson, and outdated man Demare with a leveling of children who can climb a bit and can struggle for the GC: Costiou, Holter, Dversnes and so forth. Troublesome finale is Friday. Get pleasure from.
Race#2 is the Lidl Deutschland Tour going down this time within the Saarland from Wednesday-Sunday beginning with a prologue, 2.9km lengthy, and 4 bumpy street phases. Sprinters and punchers like Mads, Kristoff, Milan, Skujins, Viviani, Lamperti, Poels, Buitrago, D Van Poppel, Aular, Alveiro Cepeda, Hayter, and so forth and so forth.
With these names and even robust it’s a .Professional race, in FSA-0DS land it’s a cat 5 stage race with 12-count ‘em-TWELVE WT groups and 5 PRT groups. Have you ever observed the shortage of puncher sorts within the Vuelta? Look right here for them. Only a actual good startlist reverse a Grand Tour. You’re welcome.
Winner? Let’s say Jonathan Milan.
Race #3 Druivenkoers-Overijse. This one-day little Belgian quantity on Friday is a FSA-=DS cat 5 race with the minimal 4 WT groups, eight PRT groups, and a few variety of Conti groups that managest to climb the bumpy Smeysberg six? occasions (I misplaced rely) plus just a few different leg-sapping climbs simply made for puncheurs. And sure we’ve got a Maxim Van Gils sighting for this race. can he rouse himself from his summer time doldrums and take the win? Can he beat Axel Zingle or Tom Van Asbroeck? Lucca Mozzato? Gianni Vanmeersch? Nah. I’m going together with his teammate Milan Menten.