So with a few days to go to the Grande Departe in the middle of the France Covid19 "heat zone" on the Cote d'Azur, everything seems somewhat uncertain!!!
Lots of stuff that can go any which way this year. Plus no one has traditional builds. Roglic was on fire and untouchable, but was he too good too soon. Slovenia had a looser lockdown than some nations so maybe he could train harder. 4 weeks from now we'll have all the answers, if the TdF even gets to Paris and the entire thing does not get shut down from Covid19, but Macron seems hell bent to keep his economy open and no shutdowns....so fingers crossed.
- Bernal has a bad back (purportedly),
- Thomas did not even make the cut for his team,
- Froome shelved by Brailsford,
- Roglic, Sivakov and Pinot maybe banged up from Dauphine crashes
- Carapez banged up from from Tour of Poland crash
- Dumoulin quietly coming on very strong at the end of Dauphine,
- Quintana looking strong but dropping out in the last Dauphine stage from pain from his knee post training crash in Colombia,
- a parcours that the ASO built to favour guys like Bardet
- teams who have 2 Covid19 positives get tossed
- Many sprinters like French champion Arnaud deMar not going to TdF due to constant hills and mountains
- Sagan Green again or does Jumbo burn matches chasing green for Wout Van Aert?
Lots of stuff that can go any which way this year. Plus no one has traditional builds. Roglic was on fire and untouchable, but was he too good too soon. Slovenia had a looser lockdown than some nations so maybe he could train harder. 4 weeks from now we'll have all the answers, if the TdF even gets to Paris and the entire thing does not get shut down from Covid19, but Macron seems hell bent to keep his economy open and no shutdowns....so fingers crossed.