Tour de France 2024, Kuss forced to withdraw. Meanwhile, there will be 8 Italians at the start

Rome, 25 June 2024 - After those of Tao Geoghegan Hart e Chris Froome, the latter by technical choice ofIsrael Premier Tech despite a glorious past, the startlist of Tour de France 2024 has to deal with another lump sum: that of Sepp kuss, that Saturday June 29 would have been at the start of Florence with the chevrons of lieutenant of jonas vingegaard in house Visma-Lease a Bike.  

I dettagli

Instead the American, who in a recent interview he had declared his ambitions for victory also to bring the yellow jersey back home after what happened to lance Armstrong, has been banned since Covid, contract to Tour of the Dauphiné 2024 just like what happened to geoghegan hart, left at home by Lidl Trek even for the after-effects of a fall. In place of the winner of the 2023 lap la Visma-Lease a Bike who loves Bart Lemmen, a good wingman who unlike the native of Durango he will only have duties as an assistant to the big names. At this point, if the feedback provided by the reigning bi-champion, fresh from months of ordeal after the crash at the beginning of April at the Tour of the Basque Country 2024, it should be Matteo Jorgenson to attempt the assault on the general classification: the rest of the team will be made up of the returnee Wout van aert, wilco kelderman, Jan Tratnik, Tiesj Benoot e Christophe Laporte. It's up to them to add Lemmen, an almost unprecedented name in cycling despite his no longer very young age. The story of the class of '95 is particular and now takes on the features of a fairy tale. The arrival in professionalism for the Dutchman is in fact very late, a trend in stark contrast to what happens today, but the motivation is important: until recently, in fact Lemmen He was an officer in the US Air Force Netherlands and Saturday, a 28 years accomplished, he will make his debut in a Great Tour and among other things in one of the strongest teams (albeit now plagued by bad luck).

The 8 Italians at the start

  The Julius Ciccone curiously he risked skipping the Tour de France 2024 for the aftermath of a flu syndrome which, given the militancy at home Lidl Trek, makes you think of the Covid. Instead the Abruzzese, polka dot shirt from last year Great Boucle, will be at the start of Florence as well as others 7 Italians, always barring variations: it is of the new national champion Alberto Bettiol, Luca Mozzato, David Ballerini, Michele Gazzoli, Matteo Sobrero, Gianni moscon e Davide formolo. Nothing to do instead for Lorenzo Rota, according to last Sunday at Sesto Fiorentino: TheIntermarché-Wanty recovers in extremis Kobe Goossens and relegates the Bergamo dialect to 2024 lap. Among 8 Italians, curiously the number of a team, the general classification hopes are entrusted to ciccone, while those hunting stages will see in Bettiol e Severed the main performers in front of the rest of the group, composed mainly of followers. With the hope that the latter will also be able to carve out their space given the right opportunity.

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