It won’t be a Tour de France 2024 what awaits is particularly exciting Marc Madiot. The patron of Groupama – FDJwhich he surprisingly called Lenny Martinez for the first Grande Boucle of his career, he does not expect the battle seen in recent years to be repeated, but he sees in Tadej Pogacar the huge favorite compared to Jonas VingegaardAccording to the French manager, the suspense could be very short-lived given the first challenging stages, in which the Slovenian is expected to do everything he can to cause problems for the only person capable of beating him in a GT from 2019 to today.
“The Tour de France will have already been decided after three or four days – commented Madiot a The Team – Pogacar will tear everything to pieces and wipe out Vingegaard. In his place, I would do it to make sure he doesn’t have time to regain his best level.” Expecting at that point a race already closed from the first days, with the battleship UAE Team Emirates who could then have the ball in his hands and control the race as he wishes given the exceptional support alongside the Slovenian, the 65-year-old Transalpine expects that the Emirati team “will distribute its gifts in the last week […] just like at the Giro d’Italia”.
In this way, according to him, there will be no shortage of opportunities for long-range attackers and it is in this context that he hopes his boys can emerge, starting with the talent Martinez, from whom he certainly does not expect to be able to make the rankings right away, but that he can start to learn and discover. And maybe, who knows, dream of the polka-dotted shirt…
