Primoz Roglic's 2024 calendar - Clash with Vingegaard at Basque Country, no Tour de Suisse and Ardennes, all-in for Tour de France

Primoz Roglic will be racing three stage-races in 2024 before the Tour de France. A clean and focused schedule, with the ultimate goal of the Grand Boucle, the BORA - hansgrohe rider has put aside secondary goals for his 2024 season.

The Ardennes classics, where he has thrived in the past, and the Tour de Suisse - the only high-level World Tour stage-race he has not yet won, besides the Tour itself - are both scraped from the Slovenian's calendar. This is reported by GCN. The approach Roglic followed in 2023 with only stage-races on his schedule before and inbetween Grand Tours will be replicated in 2024, as he looks to build the best possible form towards the Tour de France.

The Slovenian will start his season at Paris-Nice where he should be a strong contender for the overall win - and has won it back in 2022. Then he will race Itzulia Basque Country, where he will clash with his former teammate Jonas Vingegaard who is the reigning champion in the Basque race. This will be a highly anticipated event, even though both Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel are unlikely to race it.

But then; Roglic, Vingegaard and Evenepoel will all face-off at the Criterium du Dauphiné. Whilst Pogacar ideally recovers from the Giro d'Italia, the other three big contenders for the top result at the Tour de France will follow the traditional warm-up race at the Dauphiné, where there will be plenty high mountains and hilly stages to test the riders' form ahead of the big event.