Eddie Dunbar may be just getting his breath again after being called up late to ride Liège-Bastogne-Liège yesterday but the Irishman is back in race action again immediately.
The 24-year-old has been named in the Ineos Grenadiers
team for the six-stage Tour de Romandie, featuring some of the team’s
guaranteed Tour de France riders.
The race in Switzerland starts tomorrow and Dunbar is part of a line-up that includes 2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas and last year’s 3rd placed Tour finisher Richie Porte.
Thomas has been earmarked as the leader of the team for the Tour this year and he needs to ride well over the next week. He has already begun to show some form again, with his recent 3rd overall at Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, won by Adam Yates from Richie Porte in an Ineos Grenadiers clean sweep.
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As well as Dunbar, Thomas and Porte, also named in the team for Romandie are Andrey Amador, Filippo Ganna, Rohan Dennis and Owain Doull.
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This year’s race, which is an especially hilly edition, starts tomorrow with a prologue TT of just over 4km, including a near 1km climb at 7.6 per cent. Wednesday’s stage 1 includes four laps of hilly finishing circuit; nine cat 3 climbs in all and an uphill finish.
On Thursday, stage 2 is 165.7km from La
Neuveville to Saint-Imier, with five cat 2 climbs before a cat 1 some 17km from
the finish. Friday’s stage 3 features a hilly finishing circuit punctuated by
two cat 3 climbs each lap.
Then comes the very serious business on next
Saturday’s 161.3km stage 4; two cat 1 climbs before the big finish on Thyon
2000, a 19.5km climb averaging 7.6 per cent. The race then concludes on Sunday
with a 16km TT on hilly terrain.
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