Primoz Roglic. Preview: Your guide to the 2020 Tour de France contenders, sprinters and more August 26, 2020.
It’s not hard to imagine the Frenchman repeating his third-place finish from 2014 though.Just beyond the top favourites are a host of riders that should be vying for the top 10 (if not the podium). Assuming he has, he’ll be very hard to beat. He has also come second on the Tour twice and won celebrated mountain-top finishes. He was brilliant at last year’s Giro and led the race early before drifting to third overall by race’s end. The GC contenders tend to feature strongly, by virtue of being the best climbers, but normally its a breakaway specialist that ends up taking the polka dots.Bardet won it in 2019 and if he thinks his GC chances are evaporating he might be convinced to target it again. VIDEO: A Colombian adventure that starts when the pavement… A fit and in-form Quintana could well threaten the podium.Nairo Quintana wins stage 7 of the 2020 Paris-Nice.Note that Landa was yet another rider to leave the Dauphine injured — back pain scuppered his chances of overall success and he ended up 18th.
Stage two, 30 August, Nice – Nice, 186km. Favourites Tour de France 2020 ***** Egan Bernal, Thibaut Pinot, Primoz Roglic **** Tom Dumoulin, Nairo Quintana, Emanuel Buchmann *** Mikel Landa, Miguel Ángel López, Adam Yates ** Daniel Felipe Martínez, Romain Bardet, Tadej Pogacar * Julian Alaphilippe, Richard Carapaz, Bauke … Joining VeloClub not only supports the work we do, there are some fantastic benefits:For a full breakdown of the 2020 Tour de France route, including notes on every stage and how they might play out, be sure to check out our The 2020 Tour de France is an Alps-heavy route with eight mountain-top finishes and one crucial mountain time trial. More likely Van Aert will ride for Roglic/Dumoulin most of the time, and target the odd stage win.Beyond those two, it’s probably a sprinter that’s got the best shot. He has won both the Vuelta and the Giro and twice won the best young rider jersey at the Tour. Julian Alaphilippe eyes the route for 2020 (AFP Photo/Alain JOCARD) More Paris (AFP) - After the unveiling of the 2020 Tour de France AFP takes a look at the chief contenders … Thomas in 2018 and Bernal last year both rolled out from Le Grand Depart as Brailsford’s ‘plan B’ but climbed the top step of the final podium on the Champs Elysees.Once seen as Froome’s closest rival the 30-year-old Colombian climber quit Spanish outfit Movistar and is now based in France with Arkea-Samsic. The third week of a Grand Tour is always a bit of an unknown — who will cope best with the fatigue, who will fall by the wayside — but that’s doubly true in a year where riders haven’t had the volume or consistency of racing they normally would. The 30-year-old Slovenian, a former ski-jumper, looks physically stronger than the other contenders…
Subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive content, deals & events. It would probably be a surprise for him Van Aert winning stage 1 of the Dauphine a few weeks back.The battle for the points jersey at the Tour de France has been Peter Sagan’s to lose since 2012. Here are the provisonal squads for the 2020 Tour de France Tim Bonville-Ginn August 26, 2020 11:23 am Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal on stage 20 of the 2019 Tour de France (Sunada)
Which ones should you focus on? He should be among the best uphill, the time trial should suit him nicely, and he’s shown many times that he’s more than capable of finishing near the front on non-GC stages, in order to save time.In true Ineos/Sky form, Bernal’s got a stellar team around him (even In short, Ineos has a great shot at winning its eighth Tour in nine years. Even without Steven Kruijswijk there (Note that like Carapaz for Ineos, Dumoulin is a Giro d’Italia winner and a Tour contender in his own right (he was second at the 2018 Tour don’t forget). And then it’s on to Paris.There’s only a single time trial this year: the 36.2 km While any rider can lose time on any stage for any reason, some days are more conducive to changes in the GC than others. The question is whether he’ll be allowed to. The Rain Brings a Truce After Carnage — Stage One Recap — Tour de France… tour de france 2020 route. If he’s battling with his injuries from the Dauphine he won’t be able to replicate that, but hopefully he continues to recover as the race goes on. Well, Wout van Aert probably can. In that time he’s won the “maillot vert” a record seven times and he’s the massive favourite to extend that record this year.Who can beat him?