After crashing during the national time trial championships on a downhill section between Briaglia and Bastia Mondovì, Edoardo Affini is eyeing a Tour de France comeback. For the Visma Lease a Bike rider from Mantua, the Grand Boucle seemed to have vanished in the summer heat of recent days. Instead, remarkably, a door could still open. Edoardo, who emerged from the devastating crash with various bruises but no fractures, was back on the rollers the very next day. His instincts told him to give it a shot. It's the typical attitude of cyclists: races aren't over until they're over. And when that race is the Tour and it's about to start, well, riders manage to give it their all. There's no official confirmation yet, but a window remains open for Barcelona. There's a team time trial right at the start, and someone like Edoardo would be very useful to Jonas Vingaard.