It’s quite another issue entirely if a top contender, or his whole team, has to leave the Tour only to learn that he was never really positive.That’s a risk, and not a small one.
Michael Morkov will be his lead-out man, with Shane Archbold overlooked for selection.Bennett is among the leading contenders for the race’s first yellow jersey in Nice, as he looks to add Tour de France stage wins to previous success at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana.Then, attention will turn to Julian Alaphilippe. Team Ineos-Grenadiers (formerly Team Ineos, formerly Team Sky…) have won seven of the last eight Tours, with Egan Bernal the yellow jersey winner last year. Four-time winner Chris Froome and Ineos team-mate Geraint Thomas, the 2018 champion, both miss out.Egan Bernal will defend his yellow jersey in a strong Ineos-Grenadiers line-up, while Tom Dumoulin and pre-race favourite Primoz Roglic will be part of Team Jumbo-Visma’s double charge.French hopes rest on the likes of Thibaut-Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep), with the latter two winning the King of the Mountains classification in the last two editions.Great Britain’s Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) and Ireland’s Dan Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation) are also on the startlist.Here’s the full list of teams and riders for the 2020 Tour de France, but first let’s take a look at the top contenders for the yellow jersey.Team Ineos-Grenadiers (formerly Team Ineos, formerly Team Sky…) have won seven of the last eight Tours, with Egan Bernal the yellow jersey winner last year.The Colombian became the youngest Tour de France winner for 110 years and the first rider from Latin America to win the race overall.He was also the white jersey winner, while Team Ineos’ Geraint Thomas was the runner-up, too.Thomas will not ride this year, and nor will four-time winner Chris Froome, but Bernal is still backed by a strong team – including 2019 Giro d’Italia winner Richard Carparaz.Success has been harder to come by in 2020, but Ineos have repeatedly shown it is at the Tour where they truly come to life.Team Jumbo-Visma go into the Tour de France with a strong squad, including the favourite for the yellow jersey, Primoz Roglic.The Slovenian, who won the Vuelta a Espana last season, heads a squad that also includes 2018 Tour runner-up Tom Dumoulin.Jumbo-Visma were set to boast a three-pronged attack for the Tour, but even without injured Steven Kruijswijk they boast plenty of quality.Wout van Aert, Tony Martin, Robert Gesink and George Bennett are all among the riders set to back Roglic and Dumoulin.After three stage wins at the 2020 Criterium du Dauphine, and top-ten finishes for Dumoulin and Sepp Kuss, they arrive at this race in good form and looking the most likely to break Ineos’ stranglehold on the yellow jersey.Bora-Hansgrohe were initially set to go into the 2020 Tour de France with two main objectives: another green jersey for Peter Sagan and another strong GC showing for last year’s fourth-placed rider, Emanuel Buchmann.Sagan still remains on course to add an eighth Tour de France points classification win to his collection, but the team have had to have a rethink otherwise.Buchmann and team-mate Gregor Muhlberger both crashed out of the Criterium du Dauphine, while Max Schachmann fractured his collarbone after a driver got onto the Il Lombardia course and cut him off.All three have been selected in the squad, but Bora-Hansgrohe’s wider ambitions beyond Sagan will have to be monitored on a stage-by-stage basis.Nevertheless, the Slovakian superstar will ensure plenty of air time for the jersey.
Will they pay tribute to Paul Sherwen?? They’ve got one, or all, of the ingredients: the experience, the team, and the form to make it happen.
29. You have to be in great shape, at exactly the right time, with a good team, and be almost mistake-free for three weeks. You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation.
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