Grand Tour hopefuls will be out in force at Tirreno-Adriatico (March 11-17), with Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) as well as Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo), Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) and Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) all down to take to the start line.
The race does not have the usual team time trial on stage one, instead the start of the race has two sprint stages to suit the many top sprinters who are down to ride such as, Elia Viviani (Cofidis), Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) and Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates).
Stage three suits a more punchy rider, maybe the classics riders can beat the GC men in a sprint or, perhaps, a breakaway could stay away.
We then hit the mountains for a day before going back to punchy terrain, a sprint and the usual final individual time trail in San Benedetto del Tronto.
There will be a host of Classics contenders such as Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) among the peloton, hoping to improve their form ahead of cobbled races later in March.
With a relatively short climb up the Sassotetto on stage four and the time trial at the end of the race, Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) could have another opportunity to take yet another stage race win.
Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) will be hoping his form is carried from the UAE Tour, that he won comfortably overall, which had its last two stages cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
Reigning champion Primož Roglič will not return for 2020 as he is down to ride Paris-Nice but the 2018 overall winner, Michał Kwiatkowski (Team Ineos) will return after a year away from the race.
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Tirreno-Adriatico 2020 start list – provisional
Team Ineos
THOMAS Geraint
KWIATKOWSKI Michal
GANNA Filippo
AG2R La Mondiale
BARDET Romain
DOMONT Axel
GASTAUER Ben
VENDRAME Andrea
GENIEZ Alexandre
BIDARD Francois
Astana Pro Team
FUGLSANG Jakob
ARANBURU Alex
LUTSENKO Alexey
Bahrain-McLaren
POELS Wout
BILBAO Pello
CARUSO Damiano
CAVENDISH Mark
Bora-Hansgrohe
SAGAN Peter
BODNAR Maciej
BENEDETTI Cesare
OSS Daniel
SCHACHMANN Max
CCC Team
VAN AVERMAET Greg
VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
VIVIANI Elia
Deceuninck-Quick-Step
JAKOBSEN Fabio
BALLERINI Davide
JUNGELS Bob
EVENEPOEL Remco
STYBAR Zdenek
SENECHAL Florian
EF Pro Cycling
VANMARCKE Sep
BETTIOL Alberto
HALVORSEN Kristoffer
LANGEVELD Sebastian
KEUKELEIRE Jens
Gazprom-RusVelo
Groupama – FDJ
LUDVIGSSON Tobias
DEMARE Arnaud
Israel Start-Up Nation
MCCABE Travis
DOWSETT Alex
CIMOLAI Davide
NEILANDS Krists
Lotto-Soudal
DEGENKOLB John
GILBERT Philippe
MAES Nikolas
MARCZYŃSKI Tomasz
Mitchelton-Scott
YATES Adam
IMPEY Daryl
Movistar Team
SOLER Marc
OLIVEIRA Nelson
Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè
Arkéa-Samsic
BOUHANNI Nacer
VACHON Florian
ROSA Digo
GESBERT Elie
NTT Pro Cycling
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald
POZZOVIVO Domenico
Team Jumbo-Visma
TEUNISSON Mike
GROENEWEGEN Dylan
JANSEN Amund Grondahl
DE PLUS Laurens
MARTIN Tony
BOUWMAN Koen
VAN EMDEN Jos
Vini-Zabù-KTM
VISCONTI Giovanni
Team Sunweb
KELDERMAN Wilco
BERNOOT Tiesj
MATTHEWS Michael
Trek-Segafredo
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
NIBALI Vincenzo
CICCONE Giulio
UAE-Team Emirates
GAVIRIA Fernando
ARU Fabio
RICHEZE Max
FORMOLO Davide
DOMBROWSKI Joe
ULISSI Diego
Team Total Direct Energie
CALMEJANE Lilian
GAUDIN Damien
SIMON Julien
PETIT Adrien
Androni-Giocattoli-Sidermec
RESTREPO Jhonatan
