2022 Tour de Suisse - STAGE 2 Preview & Predictions
Stage 1 Review
If you have missed the action like me today, you can rewatch the whole stage freely here!
Stage 2 Profile
The day contains a first category 2 climb, followed by a 3rd category one. The last one, Challpasse ends with 14km downhill to the finish.
The Challpass 6.3 km climb is a not the most difficult climb but the last km will be decisive with percentage of 9 to 10%. From then on, it will just be a 14 km rush downwards to the finish line.
This really could be a day for a break-away win but there are way too many teams with potential winners.
Kristoff will hope that the pace is not too high for him and on the other hand Lotto-Soudal, Team UAE Emirates and, of course, Team Bora would want to bring this to a reduced sprint.
Predictions
The key moment of the race for me will the last km of the final climb with gradient of 10%. This could favor a ferocious but yet successful attack.
★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ : Marc Hirschi - He has the power to make that last km attack on the last climb and also win a sprint against the very few who can follow him.
★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ : Remco Evenepoel - We could have a repeat of Liege-Bastogne- Liège, with his team putting a pace to deter anyone before Remco put in his ferocious attack and descends remarkably well as he has being doing recently.
★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆: Maximilian Schachmann - Encouraged by his impressive 2nd place sprint, Bora-Hansgrohe could take things and neutralise any attack in hand to delivery him to the sprint.
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