Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“Seems a bit unfortunate that it's been moved a month forward in the calendar so it now clashes with the Tour de France............I'm guessing this is so it doesn't clash with the Olympics ?”
Yes, the Olympics are why the TdP has been shifted to July this year; the Eneco Tour has been shifted to September for the same reason (and it fills the gap left by the later than usual Road WCh).
OPC have revealed their squad for the TdP - their first race at WT level. It includes a couple of Poles in Marcin Bialoblocki (ITT winner last year + top-10 in WCh) and Karol Domagalski (won 2 stages in the Tour de Korea last month), though most of the locals will be focused on Kwiatkowski.
Wednesday (and maybe Tuesday as well) should see bunch sprints contested by the current and upcoming generation of big names in France/Poland respectively, with a potential sprint royale involving the lot of them looming at Doha 2016.