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Eight weeks after the first Grande Partenza of the season, the second is upon us as Italy plays host to the start of the year’s second Grand Tour.

Following the opening of the Giro d’Italia in Piedmont, the peloton has headed to Tuscany for the first stage of the Tour de France, Saturday’s hilly 206km cross-country run over the Apennines from Florence to Rimini.

Rimini, situated by the Adriatic Sea as a gateway to the pan-flat Po Valley, may not have any star racers to shout about in contrast to the famous Florentine Gino Bartali. And despite the sprint-friendly, local geography (Arnaud Démare won a Giro stage there four years ago), it’s likely a rider with abilities closer to the Giro- and Tour-winning Bartali than the Frenchman will raise their arms in victory on Saturday afternoon.

With so many climbs lying in wait on the opening day, including three inside the closing 50km, the consensus is that pure sprinters including Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), and Fabio Jakobsen (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) have virtually no chance of success. Reigning green jersey winner Philipsen’s proclamation on Thursday that he could “start without any stress” cemented that.

Even the hopes of those more versatile contenders – think Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike), and Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Dstny) – are borderline. Van Aert, who has only logged a handful of race days since crashing out of the spring Classics, has already played down his chances, saying, “I’ve never started the Tour de France in such poor form.”

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