Tour of Britain LIVE – Podium Cafe

The Olympics screwed with every thing.

Submit Tour de France that’s. We’re speaking in regards to the race calendar the place principally each race between the Tour and the top of the Vuelta is in a barely totally different place than it usually could be. The consequence of messing with the calendar was that some races had extra WT groups and WT riders and others, not a lot. The Tour of Britain is Instance #1.

Have a look at the begin checklist. This yr ToB has 4 WT groups, three PCT groups, ten Continental groups, and a British nationwide workforce staffed with effectively, JAGs. Three of the Conti groups are developmental groups for WT groups.

Two of the WT groups, dsm and Bahrain, are bringing their B/C squads. INEOS is bringing a reasonably good workforce headlined by Pidcock, Turner, Foss, Hayter, and some Swifts. Appears good, to carry a few of the native headliners to your nationwide Tour.

Then there’s Fast-Step with an attention-grabbing combine of youngsters (Gelder, Magnier, Syreck) with Moscon I assume to take care of them. And oh sure, they’re bringing

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And for good measure, this man

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So, bizarre. People right here enjoying FSA-DS who’ve these guys on their groups are glad even when the race is barely, and I imply barely, assembly the bar to be counted as a cat 5 race.

Let’s see what occurs. Six levels, ends Sunday. No time trials. Bunch of little bumpy levels combined with some close-to-Netherlands flat levels. The Vuelta this ain’t but it surely appears a bit higher than earlier than the final stage of Renewi. I kinda want they’d a TTT simply to see what QS would do.

The levels happen effectively earlier than the enterprise ends of the Vuelta so you possibly can watch this tomorrow and be in loads of time for the Lagos de Covadonga finale. Take pleasure in!