Rolling updates from the 182km opening stageStage-by-stage guide | Email Barry or tweet him
The riders are off, with just the 3,406 kilometres ahead of them! They roll over the start line but won’t be given the signal to start racing until they’ve covered 11.5 kilometres. It’s predicted to be a two-horse race between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar but nobody is quite sure what kind of shape the two-time Slovenian winner is after recovering from a broken wrist he suffered in a crash during Liege-Bastogne-Liege in late April.
An email: “I think one of the best things about a yearly three week stage race is that when it ends, there’s 49 weeks until it begins again,” writes David Alderton. “This year’s route looks to be an absolute corker, and there’s excitement a plenty on offer every day. I’m really willing Cavendish to get one more win, his career has just been phenomenal.
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