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Matilda Price

Tadej Pogačar the clear favourite at his first stage race of the year – Analysing the Tour de Romandie contenders

Collage image of Oscar Onley, Tadej Pogačar and Florian Lipowitz.

We may only be a day out of the Spring Classics, but the cycling calendar moves on quickly, and it's back to WorldTour stage racing on Tuesday with the start of the six-day Tour de Romandie, headlined by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).

Coming so close to the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de Romandie in Switzerland is usually a race for the riders on track for the Tour de France and often marks the early start of the Tour build-up. It follows Itzulia Basque Country and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, so it often sees two different types of Tour riders converge for the first time: those who have committed their spring to stage racing, and those who were off doing the Classics.

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