Procycling Magazine July 2018 Retour à l'édition précédente

The Tour de France preview. Procycling analyses the Tour route and decides it's very hard. Top stage analysts Andy Schleck, Stuart O'Grady, Karsten Kroon and Erik Zabel concur. The team also takes a look at how the battle for the competition jerseys will unfold, starting with the thorny issue of whether Chris Froome, now a Giro winner, should even be on the start-line. Besides his problematic presence, Procycling looks at his key rivals. Will Movistar's three-pronged onslaught of Quintana, Valverde and Landa skewer Sky? Or will aging Nibali's guerrilla tactics be a better strategy. Perhaps it's Bardet's year; twice a podium finisher and showing new levels of aggression this year, will he bring joy to FranceThere's an assessment of the sprinters: can the old guard of Cavendish, Greipel and Kittel stave off Gaviria, Ewan and Groenewegen? Procycling digs into the data to uncover the truth - and then makes some questionable predictions about who will win.