Carpi > Bologna 205km Well then, quite a lot has happened since my last preview, most of it isn’t good. We’ve got two of the best teams in the world looking to merge, with terrible consequences for most riders at Soudal – QuickStep, and one of the best riders in the peloton allowed to leave Jumbo-Visma. Mergers, or in this case a takeover, are never good in sport. Jumbo are clearly struggling to attract sponsorship, even with Amazon rumoured as a new partner, it’s a bad sign when the most successful team can’t get enough sponsors to continue. Anyway, you’re...