ANALYSIS | The 15 Spaniards that will race the 2024 Tour de France

Spain arrives at the Tour de France 2024 with a small representation if we think of other times but unfortunately according to the current cycling. With only one WorldTour team, Movistar Team, it is complicated to aspire to more and 15 participants is a decent amount to face the most important cycling race in the world.

So, as it is logical, Movistar is the team with the most effective with up to (Enric Mas, Alex Aranburu, Oier Lazkano and Javier Romo)," as we analyze in the words of CiclismoAlDia's Juan Larra. Tadej Pogacar will have 2 Spanish gregarious of luxury in UAE Team Emirates (Juan Ayuso and Marc Soler). INEOS also has 2, the leader Carlos Rodriguez and Jonathan Castroviejo. Another team with 2 Spaniards is Cofidis (Ion Izagirre and Pello Bilbao). We finish with Arkéa, which arrives with Raúl García Pierna and Cristián Rodríguez. With one we have Bahrain Victorious (Pello Bilbao), Lidl-Trek (Carlos Verona) and Soudal Quick-Step (Mikel Landa).

SPANISH CYCLISTS' OBJECTIVES TOUR DE FRANCE 2024

ENRIC MAS (MOVISTAR TEAM)

The Mallorcan arrives with the goal of finishing in the top 10 of the Tour de France 2024. Always criticized, he is going through a difficult moment of his career. After finishing fifth and sixth in the 2020 and 2021 Tours and second in the 2021 and 2022 Vuelta a España editions, he has been unable to finish the Grande Boucle for two years and last season he couldn't finish higher than sixth in the Vuelta. He wants to prove that he is still a grand tour leader to be reckoned with.

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OIER LAZKANO (MOVISTAR TEAM)

Much is expected of him after his great Dauphiné. Chente García Acosta has confirmed that he has not arrived to help Enric Mas and that he will be free to look for stage wins. After proving that he also moves well in the high mountains, he will surely look for a win in a big mountain pass.

ALEX ARANBURU (MOVISTAR TEAM)

The brand new Spanish road champion arrives with 2 victories already in his pocket this season and will have absolute freedom to look for a win either in breakaways in mid-mountain stages or in a hard finish where he can surprise the most pure sprinters.

JAVIER ROMO (MOVISTAR TEAM)

After his great performance in Dauphiné, we don't know if he will be Enric Mas's domestique in the mountains or if he will be another rider who will be free to win a stage victory. He is in great shape to have a great Tour de France.

JUAN AYUSO (UAE TEAM EMIRATES)

UAE Team Emirates has the clear objective of winning the Tour de France with Tadej Pogacar and try to put against the ropes a Jonas Vingegaard who will arrive very short of form after his fall in the Itzulia. We imagine that in the scale of importance in the team he will be behind Adam Yates and Joao Almeida who in the last Tour de Suisse showed a great level. It is his first Tour and he will help Pogi and learn.

MARC SOLER (UAE TEAM EMIRATES)

One of Pogacar's most trusted men in grand tours, we imagine that in this Tour he will not have the opportunity to shine alone and will be one of the Slovenian's trusted teammates in the mid and high mountains.

CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ (INEOS GRENADIERS)

In theory he lands in the TDF 2024 as the leader of INEOS Grenadiers although in a team with Geraint Thomas, Tom Pidcock and Egan Bernal it is difficult to know who is the leader. In any case, after finishing fifth and winning a stage in the last Tour and showing a great performance in the approach races to the Grande Boucle there is no doubt that he is in theory the Spaniard called to finish the highest in the overall classification.

JONATHAN CASTROVIEJO (INEOS GRENADIERS)

Luxury domestique with extensive experience in INEOS Grenadiers. Life insurance for Carlos Rodriguez and company.

ION IZAGIRRE (COFIDIS)

He won a stage in 2023 and his goal will be to try to win another one. He has not been in great form in the first part of the season but when it comes to the Grande Boucle he always delivers great performances. He will have total freedom.

JESÚS HERRADA (COFIDIS)

Like Ion, another man who will try to get a win for Cofidis. After two years of winning stages in the Vuelta, he will try to round off his great career with a win in the Tour. He will try to do it by escaping in high mountain stages and hilly days. It won't be easy, but we know he has speed at the end if the breakaway is successful.

PELLO BILBAO (BAHRAIN-VICTORIOUS)

In his last two participations in the Tour de France he has finished in the top 10: ninth in 2021 and sixth in 2023. Last year he also won a stage. We'll see what strategy he carries out this year and if he tries again to get into the overall or if he leaves that to the Colombian Santiago Buitrago and he tries to get partial wins. A life insurance for Bahrain in any case. He arrives in form after what he saw in Slovenia.

RAÚL GARCÍA PIERNA (ARKÉA-B&B HOTELS)

He started the year very well with a podium in the Tour de la Provence and a ninth place in O Gran Camiño, but neither in the Volta, nor in Romandie or in Suisse he obtained good results. He will come to his first Tour to gain experience and try to go into breakaways.

CRISTIÁN RODRÍGUEZ (ARKÉA-B&B HOTELS)

Solid climber who is always at a high level in the French calendar, who knows the climbs and who will surely be one of Arkéa's great assets to try for a partial stage win.

CARLOS VERONA (LIDL-TREK)

It seems that in Lidl-Trek he will also act as a domestique, which is what he has done so far throughout the season. We assume that if Giulio Ciccone and company do not work for the general classification he will be free to look for stage wins in breakaways.

MIKEL LANDA (SOUDAL - QUICK-STEP)

He will be Remco Evenepoel's luxury domestique in his first Tour. If the Belgian does well, he should be his shadow throughout the race. If he doesn't do well, Landa could end up being Soudal's trump card in the overall or having some freedom to win a stage.