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Pogacar to ride Giro d’Italia for the first time in 2024

Tadej Pogacar will make his debut at the Giro d’Italia in 2024 and also will ride the Tour de France. 

For the first time, the Slovenian rider will ride two grand excursions in a season and can go after the Giro-Tour double subsequent season.

In his debut 12 months as knowledgeable, 2019, he solely races the Vuelta a Espana. In the following years he rode simply the Tour de France yearly. With success in 2020 and 2021, however in the previous two seasons, he had to acknowledge the superiority of Jonas Vingegaard.

The Giro d’Italia ends subsequent 12 months on May 26. Pogacar then has about 5 weeks to put together for the Tour de France, which begins on June 30 additionally in Italy as the Grand Depart takes place in Florence. 1998 was the final season when somebody managed to win the Giro and Tour in the identical 12 months. Marco Pantani achieved the double 25 years in the past.

Pogacar won’t defend his title in the Tour of Flanders in 2024, however will ride Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milano-SanRemo, Volta a Catalunya and Liege-Bastogne-Liege in the spring. In the interval after the Tour, the Slovenian focuses primarily on the Olympic Games in Paris, the World Championships in Zurich and Lombardia.


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