French WorldTour team Groupama-FDJ will hold three very different and separate training camps in the French Alps this week in preparation for the resumption of the 2020 season later this month. They are Tour de France candidates, sprinters, and athletes who will be competing in a World Tour one-day race in early August.

Each group will be accompanied by one of the team's three coaches, with Julien Pinot leading the two-part camp in the French Alps.

Initially, Pino announced on the team's website on Tuesday that the five climbers in the group (his brother Thibaut Pino, David Gaudoux, Rudy Morard, Sebastian Reichenbach, and Valentin Maduas) will meet in Grenoble this week at the Criterium du Dauphiné (August 12-16) and the Tour de France (August 29-September 20) to do a reconnaissance ride of some of the tougher stages used in the Tour de France.

A few days later, they will join the rest of the group of rouleurs, including Stéphane Küng, William Bonnet, Antoine Duchene, Mathieu Radagneus, and Tobias Ludvigsson, at their chalet in La Gietats, a ski resort near the top of the Col de l'Aravis, where the Dauphiné and Tour finish stages, and continue to recon ride around the finish stages of the Tour.

"It's the last big job before competition resumes," Julien Pinot explained. When the riders return home, it will be less than 10 days before the race begins." Route Occitanie (August 1-4), Strade Bianche (August 1), and Tour de Pollogne (August 5-9).

Arnaud Demare, Ramon Schinkeldam, Jacopo Guarnieri, Ignatas Konovalovas, Miles Scottson, Marc Sarrault, and Fabien Lienhard - basically the lead sprinter for the team, Demare and the other Groupama-FDJ s sprinters and lead outman--will train under coach David Hann at a camp based in Le Grand-Bornand in the French Alps.

"Arnaud and his train will need to compete in the Grand Tours during the season in order to compete in the Giro d'Italia.

"But there are some great valleys in the area, so it will be easy to practice sprints. It may be necessary at times to go over climbs to get back to the hotel, but the theme of sprinting will still be the most important point for this group."

Anthony Bouillot will lead a more diverse camp of athletes than the longlist group in La Giette or the sprinter group in Le Grand-Bornand, but many of the athletes in the Morzine camp will be in the first two weeks of August should be ready for the World Tour One-Day Races.

Kevin Jenietz, Simon Guglielmi, Alexis Brunel, Kilian Franquigny, Olivier Le Gac, Bruno Almirail, Anthony Roux, Romain Seigle, and Leo Vincent are all in the camp based at the ski resort of Morzine. They will work under Bouillot.

"The players competing in Strade Bianche (August 1) may not require as much volume as those competing in Milan-San Remo (August 8), but we will gradually increase their workload," Bouillod said of the seven-day training camp.

"The goal is to work at an intensity as close to the competition as possible. The races will probably be very fast, but all riders should be ready and benefit from good training conditions."