Cycling: A new contender for the yellow jersey declares himself!

While the 2024 Tour de France promises to be daunting with an XXL fight scheduled between Vingegaard, Pogacar, Roglic and Evenepoel, here is a fifth thief, who proved in the not-so-distant past that he could clearly play for victory, declares his ambitions in turn. And this will have to be taken into account… Analysis.

In 2024, a high-flying Tour de France is coming, with a terrible fight scheduled between the fantastic four Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic et Remco Evenepoelto which will be added the harassment strategy around Vingegaard implemented by the team UAE in the hope of making the Dane bend, with four potential Tour winners selected alongside Pogacar (Juan Ayuso, Joao Almeida, Pavel Sivakov et Adam Yates).

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Carapaz is going to play the general to the fullest!

In recent days, the list of candidates for victory has grown further… Indeed, during an interview given to the site globalcyclingnetwork.com, Richard Carapazthe leader ofEF Education-Easy Postclearly displayed his ambitions for the yellow jersey, in comments relayed by cyclismactu.net : « The Tour de France is my big goal for next season. This race was not good for me in 2023 (he had abandoned after a fall in the 1st stage), I am starting from zero, but I want to try again for the general classification. If I have good legs, I can get a good place overall »

At the top, he can create a surprise

The ambitions of Carapaz are far from being neglected because the former winner of the Giro has shown in the past that at the top of his form, he is at the level to fight with the quartet, he who has already climbed on the podium of the Tour in 2021 and who had also dominated the competition during the road event of the Olympic Games. Jonathan Vaughtersthe team boss EFstill wait to see if Carapaz will regain its best level before displaying such ambition: “ The general of the Tour for Carapaz? This remains to be determined. Richie must first prove himself in some week-long stage races and see how he stacks up against Vingegaard and Pogacar. He has this confidence in himself and I hope he is right, but we are not a team that is going to race to be eighth in the Tour. This is not our ambition “. In any case, one thing appears certain: if Carapaz regains his top level, he will be able to create a surprise because not only is he at the level of the duo Pogacar-Vingegaard in the mountains, but it is also very durable and not the type to wear out over the weeks.