Tadej Pogacar will participate in the 2024 Giro

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Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, UAE cyclist, two-time Tour de France champion, He will participate for the first time in his career in the Giro d’Italia, just in the year when its presence was most doubtful as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games were also held.

So The organization of the event confirmed it unexpectedly on his

The 107th edition of the Giro, known as the ‘Corsa Rosa’, will end on May 26 in Romejust a month before the start of the Tour de France, a competition in which he has not yet secured his presence.

In this way, Pogacar will debut in his sixth season as a professional in the only great return that remains to be done, since it has already been part of the French Tour on four occasions (2020-2023) and the Vuelta España on one occasion (2019).

Possible double

The Slovenian is facing a great opportunity to do the Giro-Tour double without suffering as it would have done in other years, since this edition highlights the almost 10,000 meters less gradient that the route has compared to other years.

With the goal of the Giro-Tour double clear, Pogacar is the top favorite to cross the Roman Forum as ‘Maglia Rosa’ and to inherit the success of Marco Pantani in 1998, the last winner of the double.