Velon will once again bring cycling fans live rider data and thrilling on-bike footage from the 2020 UAE Tour, from Sunday, February 23, to Saturday, February 29.
Chris Froome (Team INEOS), Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal), Adam Yates (Mitchelton-SCOTT), Rohan Dennis (Team INEOS), Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb), Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates), Mark Cavendish (Bahrain-McLaren), Pascal Ackermann (BORA-hansgrohe), Sam Bennett (Deceuninck - Quick-Step) and Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo-Visma) are among the big names taking part.
Froome will be racing for the first time since his crash at the Critérium du Dauphiné last June.
You can monitor the riders’ live power, speed and cadence either on your TV screens or by following Velon’s social media channels, where we’ll regularly post the key numbers that help to tell the story of each of the seven stages.
The UAE Tour is first of many races in 2020 where Velon’s rider data system will be used. Others include Strade Bianche, Milan-Sanremo, the Giro d’Italia and Il Lombardia, as well as our own Hammer Series races.
During the UAE Tour we’ll also place you right in the heart of the peloton with both live on-bike cameras during the stages and white-knuckle on-bike highlights a couple of hours after the stages finish.
A great example of this came on stage five of UAE Tour in 2019, where the on-bike camera perfectly showcased just how hectic the final part of a sprint stage can be, following the Lotto Soudal duo of Adam Blythe and Caleb Ewan.
Have a look at the heart-raising clip below and get ready for more exhilaration footage from Velon during the 2020 edition of UAE Tour.
The 2020 UAE Tour is made up of four sprint stages, two mountain top finishes and an undulating stage with a short uphill finish.
The race opens with a flat stage in which some of the fastest sprinters in the world - Gaviria, Ewan, Groenwegen, Bennett, Cavendish and Ackermann - will go head to head for the first time.
Stage two sees a return to the short but viciously steep finish on Hatta Dam, where Ewan won last year. Stage three is the first of two days in the race with a mountain top finish on Jebel Hafeet.
Stage four is another sprint stage before the peloton returns to Jebel Hafeet to find the overall winner.
The final two stages will then be fought out by the sprinters.
