The Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE Emirates), winner of Itzuliaand Enric Mas (Movistar) will start with the favorites in the 77th edition of Romandie Tour which takes place from Tuesday to Sunday with a route consisting of 5 stages, where the mountains will play a decisive role.
The event will conclude the spring cycle of both Ayuso and Maswho returns to compete after his fifth place in Return to Catalonia. This is a final exam before focusing on both cases in particular preparing the great goal of the year, the Tour de France.
Juan Ayuso He will share the captain’s stripes with the British and defending champions Adam Yateswithin a strong team that also includes Pavel Sivakov and Brandon McNultygood alternative to the podium.
Movistar trust in Enric Mas, which also looks at the Tour on the horizon. The cyclist from Artá will be the leader of a “seven” to complete Johan Jacobs, Alex Aranburu, Nelson Oliveira, Remi Cavagna, Jorge Arcas and Iván Ramiro Sosa.
In the known absence of Pogacar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel, or Roglic, the ranks of the favorites open up to several runners. Apart from the above, the Ineos wait for the progress of Egan Bernalpodium in Catalonia, while the EF Education bet big on the Olympic champion Richard Carapaz.
He Lidlwith consecutive wins, the duo will be placed in the fight Tao Geoghegan and Cicconeand the away among the three candidates for the podium, such as Jay Hindley, Sergio Higuita and Alexander Vlasov. It will also be interesting to see the 20-year-old Frenchman in action. Lenny Martinez.
The 77th edition of the Swiss event offers a difficult route to test candidates to succeed the British in the list of winners. Adam Yates, winner in 2023. It starts with a symbolic time trial prologue of just over 2 km in payerne and there will be another test with a stopwatch at intervals of more than 15.5 km with an undulating profile
On Thursday, an important event with a goal to Les Marécotteswith the last 8 km at 7.3% after passing Les Mosses (2nd), and the decisive day included four other scoring climbs and 3,600 meters of elevation gain. Very difficult day with a blast ending promotion to Leysin from 13.4 km to 6.1 percent.
The stages
Day – Stage – Route – Km
23 Prologue Payerne-Payerne (CRI) 2.3
24 1a Chateau D’Oex-Freiburg 165.7
25 2a Freiburg-Salvan/Les Marécottes 171
26 3a Oron-Oron 15.5
27 4a Saillon-Leysin 151.7
28 5a Vernier-Vernier 150.8
Final winners
2023: Adam Yates (GBR)
2022: Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS)
2021: Geraint Thomas (GBR)
2019: Primoz Roglic (SVL).
Source: La Verdad
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