Tour de France: Dumoulin favorite for the Saturday TT – Overview with tee times

"I'm going to have to see how I feel," says Jungels. "I had a very good first week, and I can not really explain what happened in the last two weeks, but we will see in the time trial how I feel."

Nevertheless, expect all drivers to race against the clock, although gear choices may be the key to establishing the maximum possible power.

Thomas will be the last rider on the ramp, and will find himself in a very comfortable position with a 2:05 lead over Tom Dumoulin from Sunweb after taking a few seconds of bonus on Friday's finish at Laruns.

Thomas is a very good time trial, although the world champion Dumoulin is the big favorite on the stage, and he is likely to take some time on the Welsh. However, Thomas's gap should be enough to keep him safe and ready to roll into Paris in yellow on Sunday.

"Tom is still very good on the race against the clock where the pace is difficult, he showed that he could win on any type of course, especially on this type of course", said Chad Haga, of Dumoulin. . "If everyone goes up to a normal level, then it may take time, but I do not see Tom being yellow. But more crazy things have happened."

"I'm excited for that – for me and for Tom, to see" I do not think about it too much because it's the last day before Paris, so you just have to run with all the legs that we have and give everything because there is "

Dumoulin's main concern in the time trial will be the man behind him – Primoz Roglic of LottoNL-Jumbo – who has only 19 more seconds in the overall standings, but a mechanical problem could be catastrophic for his second place, but Roglic will have to keep fourth Chris Froome in the lead if he wants to keep his place on the podium.

pulling something out of the bag in this last week, but instead, he has been looking ailing these past few days.With a 2:37 split to his teammate Thomas, Froome has finally admitted his defeat after the last mountain stage, although he still has a chance to return to the rostrum.The gap is not than 13 seconds for Roglic, but the Slovenian is not left out against the clock.

Later in the ranking, the composition of the top 10 should not change too much, if at all, with Jungels at 11th place. He is more than four minutes behind Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin), 10th, one and a half minutes behind Nairo Quintana (Movistar) in ninth position.

The time of experimentation is not Quintana's strong point. Zakarin could be threatened, it is unlikely that he gives more than five minutes to Jungels, especially with this hilly terrain.

Zakarin is therefore likely to be the best placed rider to clinch overall rankings, although he can only go back from a realistic standpoint thanks to Dan Martin (Emirates Team Emirates), eighth, too far five minutes ahead of the Russian

The gap between Martin in eighth and Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL-Jumbo) in fifth place is just a little over two minutes, and there are some Chances of change between the two. Kruijswijk is not a specialist, but he can fend for himself in TT, while Mikel Landa (Movistar), Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) and Martin are not timekeepers of the time, to put it mildly. They could still swap places if any of them spends a bad day after going too far into the mountains.

The stage win is likely to be decided between the overall contenders with no major TT specialist left in the pack after Tony Martin's departure from Katusha in the first week. Maciej Bodnar of Bora-Hansgrohe won the "race to the truth" last year in Marseille, and although we can expect a good performance on Saturday, it should not bother the best.

Dumoulin must be the favorite in his rainbow jumpsuit, but Roglic has made great progress in the discipline and could push him hard.

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