All information à a few weeks from the start of the Grio, where Slovenian Tadej Pogacar will be the big favorite À a few weeks before the start of the Tour of Italy, we know a little more about the forces present. Huge favorite, Tadej Pogacar will try to achieve a very difficult double. Giro-Tour de France. He will not have this year to face the competition. him his compatriot Primoz Roglic, winner last year. The new leader of BORA-Hansgrohe should indeed concentrate on the Tour, and will not be on the ramps of the Stelvio this year. Qunitana and Geraint Thomas should also try to overtake the first two grand tours of the season. No Wout Van Aert, however, for this 2024 edition of the Giro. After his violent fall on March 27 on À through Flanders which caused himé a fracture of the collarbone and seven ribs, the Belgian announced; his package, insufficiently recovered from his injuries, "I can't train at all at the moment. This is why we made the decision not to start the Tour of Italy." It is the Frenchman Christophe Laporte who will replace him for the Dutch team Visma | Lease a Bike. This package is added for Visma to that of Wilco Kalderman. The Dutchman, 3rd in the last Giro, had fallen. on Paris-Nice, fracturing his collarbone. The organizer made no secret of it, he absolutely wanted to attract Tadej Pogacar to the Tour of Italy this year. If he denies having traced the course only for the Slovenian, he is obviously delighted with his participation. "The course was not completed designed for Pogacar; we simply changed our philosophy on how we design the Giro route. However, this ploté gives à Pogačar the possibilityé to double the size of the director of the test Mauricio Vegni. In the absence of his main competitors in the three-week races, Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard, Pogacar is therefore the huge favorite for this tour of Italy. He could make significant gaps with 70 kilometers of time trials, and key passages, notably the double ascent of Mount Grappa the day before the arrival. eacute;e. If the organizers of the Giro have chosen to reduce the altitude difference, total and the number of mountainous stages to attract riders who would also like to do the Tour de France, the route should offer a spectacle from the first week, and particularly during of the 6th stage taking the gravel paths of Strade Bianche. The penultimate stage before the first day of rest could also cause damage, with an arrival at altitude , &agrav; Pravi di Tivo. In a second week of transition, with stages promised to the sprinters, the 31 kilometer time trial should make it possible to gauge the state of everyone's form before a terrible sequence in the Dolomites which risks causing great damage. As justice of the peace for this Giro 2024, the terrible Monte Grappa will have to be climbed. twice during the penultimate stage, & the day before arriving in the streets of Rome. The Giro d'Italia will follow the spring season and depart on May 4. The finish is scheduled for three weeks later, &agrav; know May 26. The start of the Giro 2024 will be at Venaria Reale in the suburbs of Turin, near the Juventus Stadium. Arrival will be at Rome. Here is the list of steps: Here is the route map for this Giro 2024: © Giro d'Italia The Tour of Italy is broadcast live and in full on the Eurosport antennas. The race can be followed on Eurosport 1, Eurosport.fr as well as on the applications Eurosport and GCN. Each step will be accompanied by a presentation and a brief of the "Kings of the Pé dale", animated successively by G&raldine Weber and Lesly Boitrel. The race will be as for à she commented by Guillaume Di Grazia and Jacky Durand, joined in turn tour by Steve Chainel, David Moncouti&eac;, Philippe Gilbert, Audrey Cordon Ragot. Here are the results of the last 15 years of the Giro d'Italia, called the Giro d'Italia. Giro d'Italia. 
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ByTeilor Stone
Apr 18, 2024
By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116