The 2024 Tour de France kicks off on June 29 with a historic rollout from Florence, Italy. The first three stages of the race will run on some of the roads we’ve seen in the Giro d’Italia. With many of the national championships decided, teams have turned their focus to their selections for the Grande Boucle.
The Maglia Rosa Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) has won Stage 7 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 40.6km long Foligno-Perugia Tudor ITT. Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) and Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) finished second and third respectively.
Remco Evenepoel picked up another accolade, one of the most important awards in his home country.
Lorenzo Milesi, who recently won the U23 ITT World Championships, again found himself atop a big stage, winning the opening TT of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana.
Teams are starting to announce their rosters for the 2023 Tour de France, which kicks off Saturday, July 1 in Bilbao, Spain.
Primoz Roglic triumphed in Tarvisio in the ski jumping Worlds with the Slovenian junior team in 2007 and did it again as a cyclist in Stage 20 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia.
A breakaway consisting of Alessandro De Marchi (Jayco AlUla), Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech), and Magnus Cort Nielsen survived all the way to the finish, with Magnus Cort Nielsen winning the 3-man sprint to take Stage 10 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia. Geraint Thomas finished safely with the maglia rosa group to hold onto the overall lead.
Remco Evenepoel claimed his second individual time trial victory at the 2023 Giro d’Italia, just barely besting Geraint Thomas, Tao Geoghegan Hart, and Stefan Küng.
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) has won Stage 1 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia, the 19.6km long Costa dei Trabocchi Tudor ITT from Fossacesia Marina to Ortona
Koen Bouwman made up for the disappointment of his captains, Tom Dumoulin and Tobias Foss, on Mount Etna by winning stage 7 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia from Diamante to Potenza with the help of Dumoulin as Jumbo-Visma outnumbered the other breakaway riders.