The 108th edition starts from Brittany this Saturday. Headlining, defending champion Tadej Pogacar, compatriot Primoz Roglic, Julian Alaphilippe and a revengeful Ineos team.
Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic left us ten months ago in the shock of a twist that allowed the younger of the two Slovenes, during an anthology time trial, to become the youngest winner of the Tour France since 1904. So this is the return match advanced and the stake is heavy with consequences for the two men. Tadej Pogacar, who is at the start of the Tour in Brest under a much stronger escort than last year within his UAE-Emirates team, must demonstrate that he is not just the man suddenly shine. Primoz Roglic, certainly endowed with two victories in the Vuelta, remains on stinging failures in the Giro and in the Tour, and he took the bad habit – since we are in full Euro -, to see his team Jumbo-Visma archidomine without score, at the risk of being surprised in additional time, as last September, at the Planche des Belles Filles. Another failure – the former ski jumper also lost a Paris-Nice
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