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The roll-out is coming up at 13:30 local time, with the start of the stage proper coming 10 minutes later.
The riders have all signed on in Morzine and are gathering on the start line.
Still, the relatively gentle nature of the parcours might actually make it fertile ground for an ambush. Throw the heatwave that’s blowing up from Africa into the mix, and we have an intense second week in store.
The race itself heads into the heart of the French Alps in the first half of this second week. We have huge summit finishes coming up on the Col du Granon on Wednesday and L’Alpe d’Huez on Thursday, so this is a somewhat gentle introduction, with nothing very high or steep on the route between the Haute-Savoie towns of Morzine and Megève.
The second week starts here and, sadly, it starts beneath a cloud of COVID-19. The rest day round of testing surprisingly uncovered no positive cases and the Tour looked set to continue at full strength. However, further tests this morning have revealed two more cases among riders. Luke Durbridge (BikeExchange-Jayco) is out, and, more significantly, so is George Bennett, one of Tadej Pogacar’s key mountain domestiques at UAE Team Emirates.
More on all this soon.
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