The Sarthe Pays de la Loire cycling circuit is unveiled

The Sarthe public will be privileged to enjoy all these big names in cycling for themselves since 100% of the stages start and finish in Sarthe towns! “The start and finish in the same city is a good thing for the public, the promise of a day of celebration. It will be a beautiful 100% Sarthe edition with a 1^time stage around Mamers quite demanding, quite open for the attackers”, analyzed Fertois Nicolas Edet, climber from the Arkéa-Samsic team, who came as a neighbor, like Tony Hurel, to show his attachment to the cycling circuit. “The Perseigne belvedere and the Bérus is practically my training circuit, where I work on the bumps before the competition! »

Among the novelties of this 2022 edition detailed by Gérald Feuvrier, president of MSCO, the association organizing the event, the creation of a 6^th jersey – white – rewarding the most combative runner. Another major announcement was made during this presentation, the arrival of a 19^th team: Ineos-Grenadier. The British team notably includes in its ranks 2 former winners of the Tour de France (Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal), a winner of the Tour of Italy (Richard Carapaz), a world champion (Michał Kwiatkowski), quite a program! “Such a plateau is enormous, unique”, commented Roger Legeay, former runner and sports director from Sarthe.

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