The field of participants of the Tour de France is almost fully known. A good time to fully immerse yourself in your Tour pool. To help you on your way, our cycling expert Thijs Zonneveld gives a number of tips.
General classification
†Tadej Pogacar remains the big favorite. In the mountains he has a strong team around him. In the first week I think it is a vulnerable team. if Primoz Roglici If he wants to win the Tour, he has to strike in the first week. Together with Jonas Vingegaard they are the biggest favorites. I think the three leaders of Ineos Geraint Thomas† Daniel Martinez and Adam Yates not be good enough to Pog and Rog to threaten.”
†Ben O’Connor drives super well, that’s an interesting guy for the top ten. Aleksandr Vlasov is a shade favourite. Romain bardet will be good, he was already that in the Giro, but then he dropped out.”
points classification
„In front of the green jersey stands Wout van Aert on numbers 1, 2 and 3. Unless he goes on his face in the second stage, it’s a done race. The only one who would be able to threaten him is Mathieu van der Poel, but he doesn’t want that. Also, I don’t think he can do it that easily. Van Aert is really a bit faster in the bunch sprint. They also have Jasper Philipsen for the bunch sprints at Alpecin-Fenix. He may well be Van Aert’s biggest competitor.”
Mountains classification
†Thibaut Pinoto has already indicated that he is going for the bulb window. That’s very smart, you can scare off a lot of riders with that. Other men who can just go for the mountains classification are Ruben Guerreiro† Romain Bardet and Pierre Rolland†
stage winners
†Lennard Kamnan you can sign up for a ride. Stefan Kungo going to have a very good first week. Fabio Jakobsen is the fastest sprinter of the entire pack. Dylan Groenewegen does not drive very well uphill, but it is really super fast. He is the best sprinter around after Jakobsen. I also recommend Philipsen for the bunch sprints and Van der Poel for a stage win. I think he will go like a jet fighter this Tour.”
„Many flights will make it in the mountain stages, so Michael Storer is really a contender and not very expensive in many Tour pools. Matej Mohoric is interesting for a ride. Victor Lafay from Cofidis is one to take in your pool. maybe Andreas Leknessund what a ride. Taco van der Hoorn has also chosen his rides. He’s like an early flight professor. I would Ruben Guerreiro to take. That’s someone who can just win two rides. Being from Trek-Segafredo Bauke Mollema and Mads Pedersen interesting names.”
A common mistake is to select riders based on their name. In any case, you can already skip some big names. †Peter Sagan becomes nothing at all. Enric Mas I would not take it into your group, it will not survive the first week when it comes to the classification. Chris Froome is not yet at its old level.”
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