Male Team 27 - 29 May
RideLondon
362 Kilometers 3 Stages
Barring any changes in the days leading up to the event, the race will only be broadcast live on stage three, with days one and two shown as a highlights package. BBC is the official broadcaster for the UK, while Eurosport (probably the app) and GCN are expected to show images abroad.
There will be 10-6-4″ up for grabs at every finish, plus 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.
Absent in the calendar over the last two years (due to the obvious reasons), the RideLondon Classique will be an absolute first to the Movistar Team calendar -who had not ridden it in either 2018 or 2019- and returns with a very significant chance: it’s become a three-day stagerace, opening a small ‘tournée’, with a week’s rest in between, in Britain with the The Women’s Tour following (both are WWT).
The race scheme is otherwise easy to understand: two stages in Essex, with lumpy roads yet suited to the sprinters -the Chelmsford to Epping stage two, Saturday 28th, should be a bit harder, with three rated ascents-. amd a final criterium (Sunday 29th), barely two hours of racing, in central London. It’s basically a race for the fastest finishers, but also requires you to cope well with hills.