The departure from Turin of the 107th edition of the Giro d’Italia is less than a week away: on Saturday the doors will open and all the talk will evaporate to make room for the spectacle of the street. It will be a Corsa Rosa full of protagonists, above all the participation of Tadej Pogacar for the first time in this Grand Tour.
If the fight for victory doesn’t seem to be a possibility given the Slovenian’s abysmal superiority over the rest of the competition, the fight for the podium is very open. There are many suitors and the Colombian is also joining this fight Daniel Felipe Martinez of Bora-Hansgrohe.
The 28-year-old native of Soacha broke away from INEOS Grenadiers to finally have a real chance as captain in a Grand Tour and try to highlight his skills as a pure old-school climber. The curriculum is rich in terms of short stage races: the victory at the Tour of Dauphiné in 2020, that at the Tour of the Basque Country in 2022 and at the Volta ao Algarve in 2023.
For It will be Martinez’s fourth career participation in the Giro d’Italia, which is also the Grand Tour where he achieved the best result of his career: a fifth place in 2021 racing in support of captain Egan Bernal, who would later win that Corsa Rosa. This year he raced little, he was left out of the Tirreno-Adriatico due to a knee problem that forced him to withdraw, but he managed to place second at the Volta ao Algarve. Now this chance at the Giro to concretely aim for the podium, also given his aptitude for the time trial.
