Blues soak in Tour de France’s atmosphere
05 July 2018

Teams' presentation + TTT training

Quintana, Valverde, Landa and rest of Movistar Team salute crowds at opening even in La Roche-sur-Yon, get ready for difficult team time trial in Cholet on Monday.

The Movistar Team completed their journey to the 2018 Tour de France Grand Départ on Wednesday as they arrived in their hotel near Cholet, in the Pays de la Loire region. The squad directed by José Luis Arrieta and Chente García Acosta went Thursday on their Canyon TT bikes through a recon of the 35km team time trial set to open the first real gaps on Monday’s stage three.

The Telefónica-backed outfit then headed to La Roche-sur-Yon in the afternoon, in order to attend the riders’ briefing, the official inscriptions and, above all, the presentation of the 22 squads starting the 105th edition of the ‘Grande Boucle’ on Saturday. A press conference for Mikel Landa, Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana on Friday (9.30am) will close the pre-race appointments for the Blues.