2019 TOUR DE FRANCE PREVIEW: THE ROAD WILL DECIDE...
IT’S FITTING THE 106TH EDITION OF LA
Grande Boucle begins in the city where the sport’s most winning rider spent his childhood, for we may only be part way through a dynasty of the most prolific Grand Tour team in history.
That barring incident, last year’s podium placegetters will be present at the Grand Départ in Brussels is a good thing. That the man wedged between the Team Sky sandwich may be half-baked by the time he arrives, not so much.
Over the past seven years, the Giro d’Italia has attracted an enviable line-up of GC talent not because it’s the Grand Tour with the greatest romance, the best food or the most comfortable hotel beds, but due to the dominance of the outfit formerly known as Team Sky, now Team Ineos. The British outfit has redefined the approach to winning cycling’s greatest prize in such a way that for them, it resembles a mathematical and scientific experiment as much as a physical one. As far as they’re concerned there is as much room for romance (or bromance) as there is for woollen jerseys. They have taken a Ferrari- or Mercedes-like F1 approach to
