Fabio Jakobsen, Tim Merlier, Mads Pedersen, Pascal Ackermann and Arnaud Démare: the best finishers will be at the start in Munich, for the road race of the 2022 European Championships. The course is traced from Murnau, haunt of painters Gabriele Münter and Vassily Kandinsky at the foot of the Bavarian Alps, on the final circuit in Munich, with the last difficulty sown more than 110 km from the finish.
In short, an ideal route for “big thighs”, who shouldn’t be bothered by a flat final loop of 13 kilometers, swallowed five times in the city, where the runners will multiply the round trips between the Munich monuments: among others the Theresienwiese, a large square where the Oktoberfest takes place every year, and the Munich Residence to the finish line on Odeonsplatz following 209 kilometers.
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Among the great absentees to note: Wout van Aert, on rest since his hair-raising Tour de France, Mark Cavendish, whose (British) Federation has often ignored the Euro, and Mathieu van der Poel, on a break since its abandonment in the Great Loop. The other big names answer the call.
Born in 2016, the event is gradually making its way into the peloton’s programme. “It’s a recent race but there is a jersey effect“, describes Arnaud Démare of the distinctive stuff devolving on the European champion. The French sprinter will be one of the favorites following his three stage victories in the Giro in the spring.”We go back to our junior and hopeful years when the European Championships were an important meetinghe appreciates. In addition, it is attached to other sports this year.”
The Giro d’Italia points classification cyclamen jersey winner believes that “the France team will not be favorites, even if (we) have a selection with a lot of fast men“between him, Bryan Coquard, Rudy Barbier and Hugo Hofstetter.”Before the sprint there will be a race and Mads Pedersen is able to start from afar too“, he underlines regarding the 2019 world champion, impressive during his stage success during the Tour, in Saint-Etienne.
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