This time, there will be no wind blowing away before crossing the Great Belt Bridge or teams deciding to snub the famous morning breakaways.
Nearly 20 km of cobblestones await them.
And, as a sports director humorously recalled, no one will take them off the night before the runners pass.
You'll have to run over them.
Only martyred in the year by the passage of tractors and sometimes Paris-Roubaix, these shreds of pain know their mission of the day: to tear the peloton and stretch the riders between each sector like a rubber band.
And everyone knows the fate of elastic when you stretch it too much...
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