Stage 1: Naples – Naples
Distance: 130km
Highest point: 158m
Category: Flat
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Following 2012’s excursion into the millionaire’s playground of Jutland, this years’ grande partenza will be quintessentially Italian. Though hugely evocative and romantic, Naples was for decades a byword for the financial and social problems of the South. Now it’s being renovated, remodelled and remarketed. Modern, progressive and above all dynamic, it will showcase its new-found optimism with a lightning-fast criterium concluding on its wondrous seafront. The likely outcome? Who else… Cavendish.
Stage 1 profile
TOPICS
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Tadej Pogačar smashes his own KOM record on Coll de Rates by 24 seconds
World champion also crushed Unibet Rose Rockets rider’s short-lived KOM on another segment -
Laurens Sweeck is best of the rest with second place finishes in both sand Cyclo-cross World Cups this weekend
Mathieu van der Poel says that his competitors ‘always have to keep believing in’ beating him -
'Super happy' Shirin van Anrooij taking steps back to the top of the sport with second place in Koksijde
Her runner's up place in Koksijde is the Dutch rider's best result since returning to cyclocross from iliac artery surgery -
UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup Koksijde: Unstoppable Mathieu van der Poel makes it three wins in a row
World champion extends cyclocross winning streak to 15 races
