There Ef Education-EasyPost prepares for the now imminent Tour de France 2024. The US team is finalizing the preparation of the riders with whom it will face the most important race of the year, despite some accidents that have occurred in recent weeks. Alberto Bettiol And Richard Carapaz in fact, they had to leave the 2024 Tour of Switzerland due to injuries sustained in falls and the same had happened, a few days earlier, to Neilson Powlesswho was instead involved in the 2024 Tour of Dauphiné. Good news then arrived from the 2024 Tour of Slovenia, where Ben Healy he achieved a splendid stage victory, with an action of his own.
The lineup for the Tour de France is yet to be decided, but at Ef Education-EasyPost, in any case, they don’t want to exaggerate with their ambitions: “Like all the other teams, we must certainly admit that beating Tadej Pogačar it is practically impossible – the words of the sporting director Andreas Klier collected by In de Leiderstrui – It’s not realistic at least. So what do we have left? Maybe a stage win, or whatever else remains to be had.”
One of the riders on whom Ef Education-EasyPost will base its ambitions will be the aforementioned Powless: “I think his form continues to grow in view of the Tour. Taking into consideration his past results, we can think that his condition is improving rapidly, after tackling the first race. So, we are not worried in that sense.”
Something important is also expected from Marijn van den Berg, a sprint rider, but also with good resistance on short sprints: “If he is part of the selection for the Tour, he will certainly be up front to fight – Klier again – We know he is fast, but not exactly how fast, compared to the level of the sprinters who will be at the Tour de France. We will have to understand which stages will be suitable for him and which will not.”
