Enric Mas (Movistar) will face the Back to Switzerland from this Sunday until next as a test bed for Tour de France which will start on the 29th in Florence, a test where important rivals, such as the Ecuadorian, will be measured Richard Carapazthe Colombian Egan Bernal or the british Adam Yates.
Last test for Enrique Mas, who will bring drawings of Movistar in Switzerland and the Tour de France. For the event, the Mallorca cyclist is protected by a team of climbers complete Nairo Quintana, Johan Jacobs, Jorge Arcas, Nelson Oliveira, Einer Rubio and Pelayo Sánchez.
Although some candidates sharpen their skills in the Dauphiné, the Tour of Switzerland will have riders fighting in France for positions of honor. On a route for climbers the Dane will defend his title Mattias Skjelmosehead of a Lidl who will also count on Mollema and the young Belgian revelation of the season Thibau Nys.
It will be interesting the rivalry that Enric Mas can have with figures like the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (EF Education), the Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos), towards his best version, who will share the ranks with the British Tom Pidcock.
He UAE Emirates He will have a triple advantage over important riders, such as British Adam Yates, Portuguese Joao Almeida and Mexican Isaac del Toro, another pearl of international cycling.
Runners like Lutsenko (Astana), Sergio Higuita (Bora), even another young man of the new breed, the Belgian Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma), will also be on the podium, along with the twenty one Frenchman Lenny Martínez (Groupama).
The Spanish duo of Cofidis consisting of Jesús Herrada and Ion Izagirre will compete in the stages, while in the sprints the British Mark Cavendish, the Belgian Arnaud de Lie and the Australian Michael Matthews should appear.
They will decide the finals high
The Tour of Switzerland 2024 has prepared a menu full of high end, no less than five in this edition, including a 15.6 km time trial that could be decisive on the final day.
This Sunday the circuit will start with a short time trial of only 5 km in Vaduz, (Liechtenstein), an appetizer that will give way to two winding finishes to start the week suitable for adventurers or classics, which there are heights close to the finish lines in Regensdorf and Rüschlikon.
And the silence ended. In the fourth stage, the 2,100 meters of the Gotthard are passed (1st), on Thursday we will reach Cari (1st), on Friday we will meet the ‘ceiling’ of the race, the Nufenenpass (Special category, 2421 meters), and then descend and pass Blatten (1st). On Saturday the 15th, at only 118 km of the route in the Roman lands, the Col de la Croix (2nd), which will be climbed twice, and arriving at Villars (1st) which will be tackled the next day in time trial to determine the general classification.
Source: La Verdad
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