Race analysis, favourites, and predictions for Tour of Taihu Lake 2023

The Tour of Taihu Lake was last held in 2019 as a category 2.1 race. Now, 4 years later, this Chinese race returns as a UCI ProSeries event, but the difficulty in obtaining information about the competition puts the game for the race in Cycling Fantasy in jeopardy. If we don't have a good start list and more information about the stage profiles, we may be forced to cancel the game for the race.

Route

The race consists of 4 stages that will likely end in bunch sprints, although we don't know the accumulated gradients of each stage. It seems that the fourth stage will be the most selective.

Favorites

The start list includes 6 Pro Team teams: Lotto Dstny, Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè, Burgos BH, Team Novo Nordisk, Team Corratec - Selle Italia, and Bolton Equities Black Spoke. These are the strongest teams, and stage winners will probably be cyclists from these teams.