The Tour of Poland, which starts Wednesday, is the first stage race of the WorldTour, after the break caused by the coronavirus. The title of Pavel Sivakov, will not be at the start of this year. Ineos will be taken by Richard Carapaz, ready to engage a new duel with Remco Evenepoel. The prodigy Deceuninck-Quick-Step, 20, has won this season the Towers of San Juan, the Algarve and Burgos (the past week). This will include Wilco Kelderman, Tim Wellens, Jakob Fuglsang and Maximilian Schachmann as opponents in the way of a fourth success-ranking in a stage race in 2020.

The edition 2019 has been marked by the death of Bjorg Lambrecht on August 5. The rider of Lotto Soudal has died of injuries from a heavy fall.