Tour de Suisse: route and favorites
Pogacar and Van der Poel are the stars at the start


Pogacar and Van der Poel are the stars at the start

From Wednesday to Sunday Yes runs The Tour of Switzerland in five stages. The first two fractions they have some strain In the final, While there third could be to lend oneself to a sprint to ranks restricted.
Decisive For there classification general they will be the stages of the weekend with a long chrono individual totally flat, Of 23.7 kilometers, and The decisive stage Of Sunday with The With the of there Cross .
The favorite number a And Tadej Pogacar , That wants Yes to perfect there its condition in view of the Tour of France, but to the at the same time wants conquer For there Before time The Tour of Switzerland, race That The lacks Still in palmarès. Between the favorites Yes report Primož Roglič , That could be to be Also helped from the long chrono individual And from first two stages in which could be well to place oneself.
Others men potentially interesting For there classification general I am Tom Pidcock And Lenny Martinez , That they will try to limit the damage to stopwatch. Interesting will be see there condition Of Tiberius And Carapaz , which but they remain of the big ones unknowns, While in the first Three days they could Do of the good results Van of Poel , Schmid and Gregoire .
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The Dutchman from Alpecin-Premier Tech took the shortened Massif Central stage by storm, holding off the peloton's comeback with a devastating run. Johannessen finished second, Pidcock third despite a mechanical issue.
The Briton was among the strongest in the day's breakaway, but a faulty electronic derailleur prevented him from changing gear at the decisive moment of the sprint.

Breakaway at the finish, Johannessen and Pidcock beaten in the sprint

The winner of stage 8 of the Tour de France welcomes the 30km reduction of the ninth stage to Ussel, imposed by the extreme heat wave that is plaguing France.