Except glitch, Nairo Quintana, Warren Barguil and Bryan Coquard will be at the start of the Grande Boucle on June 27 in Nice. This Tuesday, the organizers of the Tour de France awarded their two invitation cards to the Breton teams of Arkéa-Samsic and B & B Hôtels.
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Six of the 22 French teams in the running will therefore be present at the start, a record for the past decade. Unsurprisingly, national preference worked in favor of B & B Hotels, in which sprinter Bryan Coquard or climber Pierre Rolland played, to the detriment of the Belgian group Wanty.
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For Arkéa-Samsic, which got stronger in the off-season with the arrival of Colombian climber Nairo Quintana, the matter was a formality. “Quintana-Barguil, the ticket looks like a mountain tour! ", Underlined the director of the Tour when explaining his choices.
Prudhomme played the "national preference" card
"For the last place, it is always complicated to choose and it played out with little," said Christian Prudhomme. Wanty certainly did not deserve it on the Tour. But, this time, we will give B & B Hotels a chance, the leaders of which have known a lot of glitches last year. They have the means to do well on this Mountain Tour ”.
"There is also part of a national preference which plays elsewhere for the Belgian teams in the invitations for Liège-Bastogne-Liège", added the director of the Tour. Wanty, selected during the three previous editions of the Tour, will have for consolation prize an invitation to the Dauphiné, the alpine rehearsal of the Tour in early June.
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