Il Tour de France 2024 It started just two stages ago, but the men in the general classification have already been protagonists, especially in today’s stage with the arrival in Bologna and the double ascent to San Luca. The attack by Tadej Pogacar, the response first by Jonas Vingegaard and then by Richard Carapaz and Remco Evenepoel, the yellow jersey conquered by the Slovenian.
The Italians present in this Grande Boucle are reduced to the bare minimum, but among the seven who are present, certainly a good part of the expectations of protagonism are placed on Giulio Ciccone. The Abruzzese today was the first Italian at the finish line, fifteenth and first of the group with former yellow jersey Romain Bardet, Juan Ayuso and Primoz Roglic among others present.
A placing that allows the Lidl-Trek rider to be in the top 10 of the general rankingexactly in tenth position, 21 seconds behind Pogacar. What will be the role of the Italian within his team where there is no real classification man?
It will depend a lot on what the Ciccone’s form condition: in his career so far he has not given great guarantees of continuity over the three weeks to the point of being the point of reference for aiming for a place in the general. The objective could therefore still fall on polka dot shirtwhich last year the climber from Abruzzo took up to the Champs Elysees: the hypothesis of a repeat certainly tantalizes.
