Key occasions
Jeremy Whittle’s report from Sunday, an ideal race into Bologna.
We’re underneath 5km from the départ réel, as they idle by way of the streets of Piacenza. Turin, an underrated metropolis, awaits.
Preamble
May this be the one for Cav? That is the one – the primary one, not less than – that’s been been highlighted because the stage the place he can surpass Eddy Merckx and go to 35 wins on Le Tour. Hopefully, the nice man shouldn’t be too gassed after two laborious days within the saddle. The race is being led by Tadej Pogacar, whose group are prone to lock down the peloton, and which means there can be a possibility for the sprinters. Enter Mark Cavendish, getting into historical past?
Right here’s William Fotheringham’s stage preview:
After Gino Bartali on Saturday, Pantani on Sunday, if it’s Monday it have to be a stage that ideas its hat to Fausto Coppi, passing by way of Tortona, house city of the campionissimo. So far as the motion goes, right now issues ought to calm down – briefly – with a comparatively innocuous, if prolonged, dash stage, providing a primary likelihood to evaluate the type of the fastmen, and a primary alternative for Mark Cavendish to tilt for that record-breaking stage win.
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