The Tour de Suisse, together with the Criterium du Dauphine, is the last critical test before the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France♎ - on one hand, a tune-up for the general classification contenders - on the other, a fight for selection to a rider's squad for the Grandܫ Tour.

For Team Ineos, the Tour de Suisse will be an important form check for defending Tour de France champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas, who has not raced since coming third 𝔉in the Tour de Romandie, and for his teammate Egan Bernal, who fractured his collarbone after the Volta a Catalunya.

It will also be a critical juncture for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates) who is coming back aft🦹er iliac artery surgery.

Deceuninck-Quickstep will turn its focus from one-🃏day victories and stage wins to supporting Enric Mas' GC ambitions while keeping sprinter Elia Viviani in the pocket for the spr♔int stages.d

For teams like EF Education First, Mov༺istar and Mitchelton-Scott, who come to the race without a major GC contender, ✱the focus will be on stage results and showing form to the team directors who will select the teams for the Tour.

Other squads will look for stage vict♓ories on the flat stages with Bora-Hansgrohe supporting Peter Sagan, Sunweb with Michael Matthews, and CCC Team with Greg van Avermaet.

The 9.5km opening time trial is one for a rider like Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), while the lumpy second stage is designed for a powerful sprinter like Sagan or Van Avermaet. The third stage is one♈ for the pure sprinters before another lumpy finale to stage 4.

Stage 5 is another challꦏenge for the sprinters, with a long, shallow climb to the plateau leading to Einsiedeln.

The first summit finish🐻 comes on ⭕stage 6 to Flumserberg, followed by the hors categorie finish on stage 7 to St. Gotthard.

A pancake flat 1💟9.2km time trial in Goms follows before the triple-mountain stage that goes over the Grimselpassꦅ with 20mk to go - the final test for the overall contenders.