Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel anticipated his return to competitions and tomorrow will be at the start of the Milan-Sanremo.
Still stopped this season, Van der Poel was signed "because of the many sick riders of the team" according to what the Alpecin team said, which said it had no particular ambitions for its rider: "The race was preferred to a workout ".
The Dutchman should have reappeared in the group no earlier than next Tuesday, during the week Coppi and Bartali.
Van der Poel - 27 years old, two cribs at the Milan-Sanremo (13 / o in 2020, 5 / o in 2021) - spent the winter struggling with back pain, a consequence of the fall in mountain bike races last year summer, at the Tokyo Games.