The time has come for the World Tour to resume. Finally ! After parting in Nice at the beginning of March, the classic hunters are back on the road to racing. No more forced holidays, make way for the show.
A show expected on white and rocky roads which make the beauty of Tuscany between cypresses and vineyards. An idyllic setting for a race that seems to come out of another time when it has only known 14 editions. A youth which is far from being a disadvantage in attracting Van Avermaet, Sagan Or other van der Poel. In the guestbook Cancellara triple winner alongside Gilbert, Alaphilippe or Kwiatkowski.
If the race quickly forged a place of choice in the calendar, the edition of this August 1 is special. The Medici fortress usually stormed by the tifosis at the time of departure will be guarded as it had not been for centuries. Carabinieri and municipal police will ensure compliance with sanitary measures. The survival of the bike this year is at this price if we do not want white lines to follow the year 2020 in the charts. The Italian races open the second part of the ball World Tour, the conclusions will be analyzed with great interest. The organizers and the UCI know that they cannot miss each other under penalty of mortgaging the rest of the season before the end of August.
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The back-to-school bell will ring at 1:45 p.m. The peloton will find the white roads that crisscross Tuscany. Usually scheduled for March, the race will be fundamentally different. In addition to health measures, moving the event in the middle of summer will redistribute the cards. The drought and the high temperature make the conditions even more trying for runners who have not developed in the race since at best on March 14th. The race promises to be nervous from the first kilometers, the drought that hits Tuscany at this time of year will complicate the life of the runners. From the start of the first sector, the wheels launched on the white roads will raise a cloud of dust offering almost an opaque wall to riders placed beyond the first third of the peloton. No question in these conditions to bet on a waiting race, the big arms will have to be in front from the start and that during 184 kilometers.
A mission all the more complicated as the announced temperature will exceed 35 degrees. On the trails of the Tuscan valleys, this feeling of heat will be even more painful, because in places the speed of the peloton is around 15 km / hour, insufficient to hope for a saving draft.
2020 will crown a convict of the road, a champion with an extraordinary physique, an old-fashioned hero who will be well in step with a race which despite its fifteen years of existence is already a myth.
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