Main man Mikel Landa – the Basque climber is a cult figure due to his enigmatic, tragic mien he could make the top five or fall apart. Team Niklas Arndt, Phil Bauhaus, Jack Haig, Pello Bilbao, Fred Wright, Mikel Landa, Matej Mohoric, Wout Poels Likely to be scarred mentally by the shocking death of Gino Mäder in the Tour of Switzerland, but if that tragedy brings them together, most of the riders look to be coming to form and they have a raft of chances to be “victorious” with new British champion Wright, Poels, Bilbao and Mohoric. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images, Bahrain Victorious Mark Cavendish celebrates a stage win during this year’s Giro d’Italia. Main man Mark Cavendish – the greatest sprinter of all needs one Tour stage win for the absolute record but it won’t be simple given the dearth of sprint stages. Team Mark Cavendish, Aleksei Lutsenko, Cees Bol, David de la Cruz, Yevgeniy Federov, Luis Leon Sanchez, Gianni Moscon, Harold Tejada To hedge their bets, Federov and Lutsenko will target mountain stages. Kakakhstan’s finest have changed tack by hiring Mark Cavendish a stage win for the Manxman is the obvious target but there’s not a lot of sprint support here apart from Cees Bol, with Moscon for the grunt work beforehand. “Wawa” was King of the Mountains and double stage winner in 2017, but there’s only so long you can live off past glories. Team Warren Barguil, Clément Champoussin, Simone Guglielmi, Anthony Delaplace, Luca Mozzato, Jenthe Biermans, Matîs Louvel, Laurent Pichon They will put riders in the daily daring moves but it’s hard to foresee a great deal more. Leader Warren Barguil was the future once but now looks like just another plucky contender. This Breton-centred squad don’t have enough firepower to thrive in cycling’s most competitive milieu. Photograph: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Arkea-Samsic Mathieu Van Der Poel crosses the line to win the Milano-Sanremo 2023 in March. Main man Mathieu van der Poel – flying this year, with two major Classic wins and a dominant display in the Tour of Belgium: expect fireworks. Team Silvain Dillier, Michael Gogl, Søren Kragh Andersen, Mathieu van der Poel, Quinten Hermans, Jasper Philipsen, Jonas Rickaert, Ramon Sinkeldam Van der Poel took a long rest after his Classics campaign which seems to have paid off given his form in late June. At the Tour they focus on Jasper Philipsen for the sprints and perhaps the green points jersey, with VdP targeting everything bar the high mountains he will be a favourite on stage one’s short steep hills. Main man Ben O’Connor – Aussie mountain man still out to prove 2021’s fourth overall was not a fluke Alpecin-Deceuninckįrom a relatively small cyclo-cross squad this cannily managed Dutch team has grown into a force to be reckoned with, mainly due to the presence of Mathieu van der Poel, the most charismatic racer in the bunch, but also because the team has recruited wisely around him. Team Stan Dewulf, Clément Berthet, Felix Gall, Aurélien Paret-Peintre, Ben O’Connor, Benoît Cosnefroy, Oliver Naesen, Nans Peters
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