Ineos Grenadiers has dominated the prologue TT at the Tour de Romandie today, with a clean sweep of the stage podium positions; former world champion Rohan Dennis winning from Geraint Thomas and Richie Porte.
Ireland's Eddie Dunbar is in the British team's line-up for this week and will be called into duty to defend the lead positions of his team mates. The 24-year-old finished today's 4.05km test, which included an uphill finish, in 90th place some 36 seconds down on Dennis.
The Australian rider took the test by nine seconds from Thomas and Porte, both of whom finished on the same time. French champion Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-QuickStep) was 4th at 11 seconds with Swiss rider Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Nippo) 5th in the same time.
Tomorrow's stage 1 includes four laps of hilly finishing circuit; nine cat 3 climbs in all and an uphill finish. Thomas is likely to become the Ineos Grenadiers general classification leader as he chases his first win since the Tour de France victory of 2018.
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Thomas said he was happy with his TT ride, adding it was a great result for the team and that he felt he had continued to improve since placing 3rd overall at Volta a Catalunya last month.
"Training’s been pretty good. With each race this year I’ve felt like I’m improving a lot. Catalunya was obviously a good result so, yeah, just keep trying to build on that," he said.
"The progression is heading in the right direction. We’ll see how I fare compared to everyone else though. That will be the real marker I guess."
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