FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Tour de France - The 59.5-km Stage 20 from Albertville to Val Thorens - July 27, 2019 - Team INEOS rider Egan Bernal of Colombia celebrates as he finishes. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
NICE, France (Reuters) - Champion Egan Bernal will start the Tour de France as the favourite and sole Ineos leader after a major team shake-up, but Primoz Roglic leads the charge of the challengers.
However, injuries to both the favourites have fuelled hopes that Thibaut Pinot, who was among the contenders last year before a torn thigh muscle forced him to drop out, could become the first Frenchman to win the world's greatest cycle race since Bernard Hinault in 1985.
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