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This 6-stage race (Monday to Saturday) starts with a Time Trial, and then goes on with a collection of steep hills everyday. Even the Time Trial is not flat at all, starting with a 2.5 km climb, and finishing with a smaller but steeper one.

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🌞 Weather forecast: a very un-Basque weather (no rain), and the first days are going to be very hot for the season.

🚴‍♂️ Teams:

We'll get to see Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE), Ayuso (🇪🇸 Lidl-Trek), Seixas (🇫🇷 Decathlon), Roglitch🇸🇮 and Lipowitz🇩🇪 (Bora) for GC. Perhaps Landa (🇪🇸 Soudal-QS), McNulty (🇺🇸 UAE), Uijtdebroeks (🇧🇪 Movistar) and one Ineos behind them. For stages, we can watch the 2 Basques from Cofidis who are always in shape at this time of the year when they smell home: I. Izagirre🇪🇸 and Aranburu🇪🇸 who just made 1^st^ and 4^th^ on the Indurain GP – where Q. Simmons (🇺🇸 Lidl-Trek) 2^nd^ seemed to have finally found his good legs too; as well as the EF team (Healy🇮🇪 and others); I am not about the shape of Astana riders at the moment.

🗺 General map (they picked the separatist version, where Spain and France do not exist, and the Basque Country includes parts in France):

Stage 1 (Monday 6, Time Trial)

Stage 2 (Tuesday 7)

Stage 3 (Wednesday 8)

Stage 4 (Thursday 9)

Stage 5 (Friday 10)

Stage 6 (Saturday 11, last day)