Next week, the Spring Classics are interrupted for a big week of stage racing, with Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice taking over the WorldTour calendar and luring almost all of the top GC riders and sprinters to race in Italy and France.
In Italy, the seven tough stages of Tirreno-Adriatico offer fertile training ground for all sorts of riders, from GC riders preparing for the Giro d’Italia, to sprinters testing their speed and Classics specialists getting the race days in before the Monuments start.
