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.
The sprinters, the GC men and the puncheurs
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