Landa and Poels firmly focussed on Tour de France 2020

Wout Poels at the Bahrain McLaren training camp
Wout Poels at the Bahrain McLaren training camp (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

The start of the 2020 Tour de France, in the southern resort city of Nice, may still lie over six months away, but two men at this week's Bahrain McLaren training camp had their minds firmly focussed on next summer's race.

Mikel Landa and Wout Poels, both major new additions to the overhauled squad, are building their 2020 campaigns around the race. The pair, reunited after racing together at Team Sky in 2016 and 2017, join Bahrain from teams where their chances of personal success have taken a back seat to others – whether that was by design or accident.

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