EFE · Road Competition · 02/08/2021
The French Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), world champion on the road, the Colombian Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), winner of the 2019 Tour de France, and the Spanish Enric Mas (Movistar), who opens the season, will be some of the main attractions in the Tour of Provence that is disputed from this Thursday until Sunday.
After the dispute of the Bessges star, the racing calendar takes place in France with the Tour de La Provence, where prominent figures will start this season, such as arcoris Alaphilippe and Enric Mas, leading a Movistar in which the Puerto Rican Abner Gonzlez will debut.
In the Provençal event, which offers four stages to check the cyclists’ fitness on the way to spring, riders such as the Russian Alekansdr Vlasov (Astana), the Pole Michal Kwiatkowski, the Belgian Philippe were also included in the starting list. Gilbert (Lotto-Soudal) the Dutch Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo).
The French event will be the protagonist in the cycling week, in which it will also have its speaker next Sunday the Almera Classic, with 11 World Tour teams and German Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe) set to score his third consecutive victory.
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