The Race of Truth
Only 40.7km lie between the riders and the ceremonial Stage around Paris. The course mostly suits your pure TT specialists such as Filippo Ganna and Stefan Kung however there are two short bumps at the end (1.6km@4.7% and 1.5km@7.8% respectively) which could swing the final result in favour of your slighter rider.
Your sprinters and their lead out men will just make sure to avoid the time limit today and save all their bullets for the Champs-Élysées tomorrow. It will lead to a fair amount of uninspired viewing earlier in the day but we are sure of fireworks later when Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard go head-to-head.
Barring catastrophe we will not see the top two positions on the GC change. With Pogacar pushing and Jonas avoiding crashes at all costs I predict we will see about a 30 second swing in Pogacar’s favour.
Aleksandr Vlasov is Likely to leapfrog both Louis Meintjies and Nairo Quintana into 5th position which will be a decent Tour debut for the Bora Rider.
Our Top Picks:
Fillipo Ganna
Stefan Kung
Wout Van Aert
Outside Picks:
Tadej Pogacar
Geraint Thomas
Our Winner:
Wout Van Aert
