It has not been difficult to mark the milestones of the 2024 cycling calendar
Let’s start the new year, happy 2024, friends, and I want to start well, marking the 10 dates that I consider key to enjoy the best of the cycling calendar that begins shortly, in a few days, in Australia…
Let’s see then…
March 16, Sanremo
Spring, one of the best things about the new year is that we begin with the focus on classics and Milan-San Remo opens the chapter on monuments.
Tadej Pogacar will be in the game and Mathieu Van der Poel is going to have to refine a lot with what is coming at the Poggio, the filter of filters.
Will the Slovenian try something different?
March 31, Flanders
Holiday in the flamenco saints, day of De Ronde, of the Tour of Flanders, a peloton coming and going along small, humid and cobblestone country roads.
The return of the Van der Poel vs Pogacar duel, a year ago, although now The Dutchman has the clearest path to his third crown,
Be careful that it would be equal to very powerful people in the place.
April 7th, Roubaix
The mother of battles, with the big block at the best point, with its most outstanding men.
Another square in which Van der Poel defends crowngiven Jumbo’s desire to add another monument to their account, they have not smelled one since Roglic four years ago.
April 21, Liège
That Pogacar is going to the Giro surely does not affect him.
The duel that is systematically denied to us, Remco vs Tadej, has to finally take place and what better setting than the Ardennes.
May 4, the Giro
There is nothing, the first big one of the 2024 cycling calendarwhich looks like she can still be Slovenian.
Any other winning trick other than that of Tadej Pogacar is an illusion, but be careful, this is cynicism.
We have seen stranger things and races are won by competing.
June 29, the Tour
A Tour that leaves from Florence and ends… in Nice, news.
The coincidence with the Olympic Games in Paris, a city where it will not be easy to be in those days, brings the end of the best career far from the capital.
On the road, Jonas Vingegaard knows perfectly well that he will have Tadej Pogacarready for another chapter of a monstrous rivalry.
August 3, Olympic Games
Although it is unfair to summarize so much greatness, so many emotions and competitions in one, we are going to the online cycling day.
No one is bitter about a gold medal in the Olympic Games, a piece so big that it takes you out of the limits of your sport and that goes for all of cycling.
It is hard to believe that this is not Van der Poel’s great objective.
August 17, the Vuelta
We wonder many things about the third big one of the 2024 cycling calendar and especially What fate will Sepp Kuss have if Vingegaard returns?.
With the American in number one, and a Jumbo presumably surrounding him, it is difficult to imagine favorites that could worry him about repeating themselves on the 2023 stage.
September 29, the World Cup
Zurich guarantees toughness for a World Championship that seems made by and for Pogacar.
More suitable for people who do well in the grand tours, the world championship recovers profiles that had no options in Glasgow.
And if it were Pello Bilbao day.
October 12, Lombardy
It’s hard for me to believe that with the number of goals Pogacar has accumulated, the Slovenian wants his fourth consecutive win.
We return, if I’m not mistaken, to Comomuch more beautiful and aesthetic to conclude this race than Bergamo.
As in the old days, Lombardy will already have clear names for the new year.
Image: ASO/Charly Lopez
2024-01-05 05:40:38
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