Martigny > Martigny 171km Just the 2nd day and straight into GC action. The final stage is a soft mountain stage, which really just leaves this and stage 5 as proper days in the fight for the overall title. The big climb might crest with 33km to go, but that doesn’t put off the modern-day rider. 

Marmaris > Kiran 133km The first of the two GC days over in Türkiye. The climb up to Kiran debuted in the race last year, if you watched it, you’ll know that it seems to go on forever. Gaps will be big, but hopefully not too big that the next GC stage is a foregone conclusion.

Villars-sur-Glâne > Villars-sur-Glâne 3.16km I’m not normally a fan of prologues, but I like the look of this one. 

The first part of the season is now officially over, it’s time to get stuck into a lot of stage races. It’s the 79thedition of Tour de Romandie, a race missing from the palmarès of a certain Tadej Pogačar, that’s why he’s decided to come here for the first time.

Aydin > Marmaris 153km Tom Crabbe took the win in the opening stage, just adding to the growing clamour for his signature. Stage 2 heads to Marmaris, a very popular holiday destination, and an equally popular finishing town in this race. It should be another sprint, but not all the fast men will survive the final climb.

Bastogne > Liège 156km Just the 10th edition of the women’s race, one that Demi Vollering, Anna van der Breggen and Annemiek van Vleuten have all won twice. FDJ got back to winning ways on Wednesday, Demi Vollering took another win in what’s turning out to be a brilliant season. 

Çesme > Selçuk 149km The race kicks off with a sprint stage.

Tour of Türkiye is a race I’ve watched for many years, not the biggest event in the world, but one that I really enjoy. Back in the dark old days, you would have seen riders doped up to their eyeballs dropping the world tour riders, shout out to Gabrovski and Sayar! Selfishly, my favourite moment was when Eddie Theuns won a stage back in 2017, and then gave me a shout out in his post-race interview. We had a chat the night before and came up with a plan to win the stage, it worked, and Eddie shared the story...

Liège > Liège 259km Tadej Pogačar is going for his 3rd consecutive title, it’s not been done since Moreno Argentin back in 1987, it would also be his 4th Liège win, putting him level with Argentin and Valverde and just one behind Eddy Merckx. Looking to stop him will be Evenepoel and Seixas, it’s the first time we get see Pogačar versus Seixas this year, something the cycling world is very excited about.

Trento > Bozen/Bolzano 129km Is it just me that’s been thinking this year’s race has been absolute dogshit? Another stage not hard enough to see GC action, that’s three out of four stages which have been pretty boring to watch. However, hats off to Lennart Jasch, that was a tremendous ride from him today. We head to the final stage, at last there should be attacking racing.