Early season racing steps up a level with five-day Mallorca Challenge

The sprinters fight for an early victory in 2020 at the Challenge Mallorca
The sprinters fight for an early victory in 2020 at the Challenge Mallorca (Image credit: Bettini Images)

After the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana kicked off the European road race season on Sunday, with Italy’s Giovanni Lonardi (Eolo-Kometa) winning the sprint, the intensity and quality of the peloton and the parcours click up a gear from Wednesday, with the five-day Challenge Mallorca.

The Challenge Mallorca is not a stage race; it is a series of different one-day races on varying types of terrain on the Spanish Balearic Island, and allows the teams to change their rosters race by race.            

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