01 Friday 9 May Belfast ( Titanic) Belfast ( Donegall Square North)
SCINTO SAYS…
A non-GC team will go for glory
Well it’s not too technical and essentially you know what you’re going to get. A team like ours has no chance of winning it, simply because we don’t have the money to be able to compete. For us – and for a lot of the others – it’s really just a case of getting everyone round in a reasonable time but above all not taking risks.
If I were to speculate I’d say the likely winners will be someone like OricaGreenEdge. They don’t have a GC rider but they do have any number of extremely strong time triallists. It’s quite possible they will build their team around this stage because if they get the maglia rosa here, their job’s half done.
>> Orica-GreenEdge are one of the best drilled squads for the team time trial. Whatever their line-up, expect them to figure strongly in this opening stage