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Gino Mäder and Damiano Caruso set the ball rolling at the Giro d'Italia and now it is up to Jack Haig, Wout Poels and Sonny Colbrelli at the Tour de France, with Pello Bilbao, Dylan Teuns and Matej Mohorič all possible stage winners. Objective: stage wins, green points jersey and general classificationīahrain Victorious have finally lived up to their moniker in recent weeks, with a transformation and string of success. Gino Mäder (Bahrain Victorious) (Image credit: Getty Images) Maxime Chevalier, Franck Bonnamour, Cyril Barthe, Cyril Gautier and Cyril Lemoine. He won the Mont Kigali stage at the Tour de Rwanda in May so his hunger is still there.įull line-up: Pierre Rolland, Bryan Coquard, Quentin Pacher. Rolland is now 34 and last won a stage at the Tour in 2012 and at the Giro in 2017. He was second to Caleb Ewan in the Baloise Belgium Tour and so it could be his year.
He was in the top 10 seven times in 2020 and surely a sprint will go his way one day.
#Pro cycling manager 2018 baroudeur climber plus#
The French ProTeam is riding the 2021 Tour de France thanks to one of the three wildcard invitations and will be looking to pay back their golden ticket with sprint wins and a placing by Bryan Coquard plus attacks and possible success in the mountains from veteran Pierre Rolland.Ĭoquard has won 45 times but rarely at WorldTour level and never at the Tour de France. So is the fast-finishing Aranburu, who went close to victory on two stages in the Critérium du Dauphiné.įraile is aggressive and fast and his Spanish road race title confirms he is on form and ready to race.įull line-up: Jakob Fuglsang, Alexey Lutsenko, Ion Izagirre, Omar Fraile, Hugo Houle, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Stefan de Bod and Alex Aranburu.
#Pro cycling manager 2018 baroudeur climber trial#
Lutsenko's second place at the Critérium du Dauphiné confirmed he could repeat his stage win of 2020, while Ion Izagirre won the Spanish time trial title and clearly has his motor fine-tuned for the month ahead.Ģ4-year-old Stefan de Bod is perhaps a surprise selection but he was fifth in the best young rider competition at the Tour de Suisse and a name to remember. The boys in sky blue have lost team leaders like Vincenzo Nibali and Miguel Angel Lopez in recent years and, with the Olympic Games on the horizon, leader Jakob Fuglsang and the team are more focussed on winning stages than chasing a top 10 in the overall classification.įuglsang, Alexey Lutsenko, Ion Izagirre, new Spanish national champion Omar Fraile and even Alex Aranburu could all win hilly and mountainous stages, while Canada's Hugo Houle loves going in long-range attacks.įuglsang finished third overall at the Tour de Suisse and perhaps starts the Tour with even better form. He has won six times so far in 2021 and has the speed and sprint craft to step up a level and win in the chaotic Tour sprints.įull line-up: Mathieu van der Poel, Silvan Dillier, Tim Merlier, Xandro Meurisse, Jasper Philipsen, Jonas Rickaert, Kristian Sbaragli and Petr Vakoč.
Silvan Dillier will stand out in the team due to his red Swiss national champion's jersey but beyond Van der Poel, Merlier is the rider to watch. Meurisse finished 21st overall in the 2019 Tour de France when riding for Wanty-Gobert, while Vakoč and Dillier are strong enough to help with any chase work if Van der Poel does pull on the leader's yellow jersey. Jasper Philipsen is a valid alternative, and Kristian Sbaragli is a good understudy and an experienced lead-out man.
Winning stage 1 in Landerneau would be huge even by Van der Poel's high standards but is possible.Īlpecin-Fenix have selected a team packed with sprinters with Tim Merlier offering an alternative to the Dutchman for the high-speed flat sprints. The Alpecin-Fenix Tour team will predominantly revolve around him and be directed to ensuring a stage win and perhaps even the yellow jersey in the first week. Mathieu van der Poel wins at the Tour de Suisse (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)Īfter animating the Classics and weeklong stage races, Mathieu van der Poel turns his many talents to the biggest race of all: the Tour de France.
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