Rafal Majka (Bora-hansgrohe)

Last year’s winner Rafal Majka must have felt a huge sense of déjà vu as he climbed onto the podium for the second time in three years.

Majka, for the second time, took full advantage of team leader Alberto Contador abandoning by using his freedom in the mountains.

Four top-three finishes in all, and countless miles in the breakaways, all added up to him claiming 209 mountain points – 79 more than second-placed Thomas de Gendt.

He is in good form this year too – gearing up for the Tour with a stage win and second overall at the Tour of California, and then a stage win and overall victory at the Tour of Slovenia.

With team-mate Peter Sagan targeting stage wins and the green jersey, Majka will be expected to come to the fore in the mountains, both supporting white jersey contender Emanuel Buchmann and for his own ambitions.

With three stage wins and two King of the Mountains titles to his name from previous Tours, he certainly knows what it takes too.

Warren Barguil (Team Sunweb)

After the highs of Tom Dumoulin’s Giro d’Italia win, Team Sunweb’s attentions now turn to the Tour de France, where stage wins are the priority.

But in Warren Barguil they also have a rider capable of mixing it with the big riders in the mountains – even if he has failed to show that consistently since bursting onto the scene with a couple of Vuelta a Espana stage wins in 2013.

The team is not set up to support Barguil in the mountains – Simon Geschke and Laurens ten Dam, Dumoulin’s key lieutenants at the Giro, are both there, but both have already put in huge efforts in that race.

Instead Barguil may be better served looking for opportunities in the breakaway, and with that King of the Mountains points. If he does, he is well capable of challenging.