Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar will take on the Giro d'Italia for the first time in 2024 — and is immediately a near unbackable favourite. However, Australian Ben O'Connor believes this could be his time.
The first Grand Tour of the 2024 cycling season will get underway in northern Italy on Saturday night — and all eyes will be on Slovenia's serial race-winnerPogačar is already establishing himself as one of the greatest cyclists of his generation, if not all time.has enjoyed 10 days of racing so far in 2024, winning six of them, including one day classics Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Strade Bianchi.
Ineos Grenadiers sports director Zak Dempster told Cycling Weekly that Pogačar is "probably capable of winning every stage in the Giro", describing him as "the elephant in the room, the young kid from Slovenia that smashes everyone".Torrential rain, freezing temperatures and a COVID-19 outbreak turned the 2023 Giro d'Italia into survival of the fittest. But 100 years ago, things were so much worse.
This year, he's been backed to compete at the Giro, a race he claims suits him and one he comes into in good form after a fifth-placed finish at the Tirreno-Adriatico."It is somewhere I have always believed I can perform well in, it is a race that really suits me well," he told Global Cycling News.
Sport director David McPartland said the team aims to win "at least one stage with Caleb", while also backing new recruitGroves is yet to win a race this season, but did secure a victory at the Giro on stage five last year as well as registering two, third-place finishes, so will back himself to perform.
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