Male Team 23 - 26 Aug
Deutschland-Tour
737 Kilometers 4 Stages
The Movistar Team will be present at a revived, historical race, which had spent an entire decade out of the calendar and will honour in 2018 the strong present and future of cycling in Germany.
The 33rd Deutschland Tour (UCI 2.1) will start from Koblenz, home of the Blues’ bike partner Canyon, and cover four days of racing really attractive and full of chances for different riders. Actually, the only day really suited for sprinters will be the inaugural stage to Bonn (Thursday 23rd), 157km with just one minor hill at fourty kilometers from the end.
All three other stages will be tricky, lumpy ones. Five climbs, including the Petrisberg -with a bonus sprint at its top, see ‘Bonuses’ section-, will be covered on day two to Trier (196km; Friday 24th); several difficult slopes plus the bonus Eller Weg are scheduled on stage three (177km; Saturday 25th); and the Herdweg hill in Stuttgart, featuring in the 2017 Worlds road race course, will decide the race’s outcome (207km, Sunday 26th).