Team Ineos will view the 2020 Tour de Alps as an important test of their form and their team's preparation for the 2020 Giro d'Italia, and will spend time in Italy before and after the race scouting important stages. It is unclear whether Richard Karapas will compete in the Tour de Alps, but his team is expected to send the bulk of its Giro d'Italia lineup to the race to prepare for its defense of a Giro d'Italia victory in 2019.

A total of eight WorldTour teams are confirmed to compete in the five-day race, which climbs between Italy and Austria's Trentino, Sud Tirol, and Tyrol from April 20 to 24.

Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo), Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale), Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), and Rafal Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) have also chosen the Tour de Alps as their preferred route to the Giro.

The CCC team, which could be led by Russia's Ilnur Zakarin or their new signing, 2019 Tour de Alps stage winner Fausto Masnada, with Valerio Conti and under-23 Giro winner Andres Camilo Ardila UAE Team Emirates, and Bahrain McLaren complete the list.

The Tour de Alps clashes with La Flèche Wallonne, but Giro d'Italia contenders often prefer to ride in the mountains and then head north to Liege-Bastogne-Liege the following Sunday. Since evolving from the Giro del Trentino, the Tour de Alps has opted for short, intense stages, with recent winners including Geraint Thomas (2017), Thibaut Pinot (2018), and Pavel Sivakov (2019).

Nibali finished second in the 2019 Giro d'Italia after finishing third in the Tour de l'Alps behind Sivakov and Geoghegan Hart. He moved from Bahrain-Merida to Trek-Segafredo for 2020, but left the Tour of the Alps in his race program. Romain Bardet abandoned the Tour de France for the Giro d'Italia and as a result added the Tour of the Alps to his spring race program.

Race organizers confirmed that nine professional teams, two Austrian Continental teams, and the Italian National Team will complete the start list along with eight WorldTour teams.

Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, Bardiani-CSF, and Vini Zabù-KTM will fly the Italian flag, while Caja Rural Seguros-RGA and Fundacion Euskadi, B&B Hotels-Vital Concept, Uno-X Norwegian, Nippo Delko One Provence, and Russia's Gazprom-Rusvelo have also been invited. Two teams from Austria, the Tyrol KTM Cycling Team and Team Felbermayr Simplon Wels, will be joined by a young Italian national team, for a total of 20 teams and 140 peloton members.

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