The Tour de France starts on Friday from Copenhagen, stunned by the fervor of the race for the yellow jersey, of which the double title holder Tadej Pogacar will be the big favorite.
To start ?
A 13.2 km time trial through the streets of the Danish capital.
Absent big names
In the city which prides itself on being the most cycle-friendly in the world, and where the race had never come, the presentation of the teams on Wednesday set the tone for the Grand Départ: enormous enthusiasm accompanied the 176 riders in the peloton.
This one is however deprived this year of some big names, from the French world champion Julian Alaphilippe, insufficiently recovered from his fall in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, to the Briton Mark Cavendish, co-holder with Eddy Merckx of the record of victories of stage (34), passing by the Italian veterans Vincenzo Nibali, 37, winner of the Tour in 2014, and Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, 42, world champion 2018, or the young Belgian prodigy Remco Evenepoel (22 years old).
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