Bretagne Classic 2019 / Newsletter n°29 GrandPrixPlouay

Forafirstpodium?

Considered as the best team in the world in one day races, the Belgian team hasnever triumphed in Plouay since the biggest race in Bri=any is on the WorldTourcalendar. Itwill count this Bme in its ranks a formerwinner, Elia Viviani, to try tofinallywin.Wemustgoback to the lastcentury tofindtwoPatrickLefévère'swinnersatPlouaywith Franck Vandenbroucke in 1996 andMichele Bartoli in 2000 in a team thatwasthen ItalianandwascalledMapei.Sincethebeginningof theWorldTour in2005, theDeceuninck -QuickStep teamhas suffered fourteenconsecuQve losses. Evenworse,PatrickLefévère'sridershaveneverevenbeenonthepodium!Itmustbesaidthatthebreton race ismuchmore difficult to controle than a simple belgian classic and theracingcondiQonsareterriblydifficultasPeterSagantesQfied.But for this 2019 ediQon, Deceuninck - Quick Step can believe it. It has aworkforcecapableofwinning theBretagneClassic -Ouest-Franceanda leaderwhohasalreadyraisedthearmsinPlouay,EliaVivianihavingtriumphedin2017whileridingfortheSkyteam.TheItalian,recentEuropeanChampion,willbeoneofthehugefavoritesoftheday.HewillcountonasolidcollecQvetomakehimwin.

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EliaVivianiandBobJungelsasleadersDeceuninck -QuickStephaspresented itsfirst rider list scheduled inPlouayunder thedirecQonofthesporQngdirectorTomSteels.111. PetrVakoc (Cze, 27).TheCzechwill live his secondBretagneClassic, hewill be astrongteammatetoleadhisleaderstovictory.112.DriesDevenyns(Bel,36).TheoldestoftheteamwilllivehiseighthparQcipaQoninPlouay,hewillbethereasacaptaintohelphisleaders.113.Mikkel Frolich Honoré (Den, 22). SQll in progression, the young Danish rider willhave his first experience on the Bretagne Classic. He already knows Bri]anywhere hewon a stage on the Trophy CenterMorbihan 2015, he also illustrated on the Tour deBretagne2017.114.BobJungels(Lux,26).TheLuxembourgerwilldiscovertheBretagneClassic.Formerwinner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, he should love the breton classic andwill be countedamongthefavorites.HewasinthegrouparrivingforthevictoryattheLorient-QuimperstageoftheTourdeFrance2018withaverycomparableprofile.115. DavideMarBnelli (Ita, 26). The faithful teammate of Elia Viviani will be there toprotectherleader.116. Florian Sénéchal (Fra, 26).Strong riderof theNorthnotbeing afraidof the racesdisputedindifficultcondiQons,hewillbeoneoftheyoungfrenchtofollow.Hewillalsobeastrongteammateforhistwoleaders.117.EliaViviani(Ita,30).WinnerofthesecondediQonoftheBretagneClassic in2017,therecentEuropeanChampionwillbeamongthesuperstarsoftheday.Sprinteroftheworldtoplevel,heisalsoabletogoonthea]acktowinandclimbthebretonhills.Hehastheperfectprofiletorepeathispreviousvictory.The announced subsQtutes are Alvaro Jose Hodeg Chagui (Col) and Michael Morkov(Den).