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Twelve WorldTour teams will take on the five stages of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta ao Algarve from February 20 to 24. The race covers 7🥀78,6km with more than 12.0♛00metres of climbing.

Bora-hansgrohe, CCC, Deceuninck-Quickstep, Lotto-Soudal, Dimension Data, Jumbo-Visma, Katusha-Alpecin, Sky, Sunweb, Trek-Segafredo and UAE Team Emirates will represent the top teams at the 2.HC race. Professional Continental teams Wanty-Gobert, Cofidis, Caja Rural – Seguros a♚nd W52-🍸FC Porto as well as eight Portuguese Continental teams round out the field of 168.

Team Sky are sending a high-powered team, with David de la Cruz, Tao Geoghegan Hart, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout Poels, Luke Rowe and Ian Stannard. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Aru leads 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates, Bora-hansgrohe features Jemp💞y Drucker, while Soren Kragh Andersen (Sunweb) makes his season debut. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data), currently leading the overall GC at Volta a🌺 la Comunitat Valenciana, will look to put in another top performance.

The race opens with the longest stage, 199km from Portimao to Lagos, with an expected sprint finish. Stage 2, 187km from Almodovar to Monchique, finishes atop a category 1 mountain. The third stage 🐼gives the time triallists a chance on a 20.3ওkm course starting and finishing in Lagos. Stage 4 is another one for the sprinters, after 198km from Albufeira to Tavira.

The race's winner will be crowned on the final stage, where the peloton covers 173km from Far♛o to Malhao, with a finish atop the category 2 climb and an average gradient of 9.9 per cent on the 2.5km closing climb.