Paolo Slongo, Vincenzo Nibal’s coach, has revealed his rider’s numbers less than a week before the Tour de France in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport.

“He’s at 64kg with about 5.8-6% of body fat. He’s at about the same point where he was last year. Of course in the race it will all depend on what is rivals do too.”

After training in the Dolomites for a week, Nibali came back down to win his national road race for the second successive year.

“We’re ready,” Slongo told Gazzetta dello Sport on Monday. “Nibali and the other riders polished their form at the camp at altitude at Passo San Pellegrino. We did a specific tough ride twice, covering 4000m of climbing in 160km that included the Sella, Campolongo, Valparola, Pordoi and then back up San Pellegrino. The riders did the valley roads behind my scooter and did intervals on the climbs, some of which were 30 minutes long just below threshold. Others efforts were 20 minutes long with the final 5-6 minutes over threshold.”