The 11 national champions that are racing the 2024 Giro d'Italia - Two of them headlined stage 1
CyclingSaturday, 04 May 2024 at 23:30
The Giro d'Italia features many of the world's best riders, and so as a consequence, many national champions end up taking to the start. This year 11 of them start the race and they have already featured at the very top of the opening day.
In this list we have got four riders who are both road race and time-trial national champions simultaneously. This features of course Tadej Pogacar, the start of the race but also Kazakh headliner Alexey Lutsenko, Australian Luke Plapp and also Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider Attila Valter who is Hungary's main figure.
When it comes to solely road race champions we've got the very prominent example of Jhonatan Narvaéz (Ecuador) who rode an incredible first stage to take the pink jersey. Italy has it's own champion on the road in Simone Velasco as well.
Italy has also Filippo Ganna, it's time-trial champion on the road. We've got a few other time-trial champions present in the race who should be showing off their colours in the two time-trials: Daniel Martínez (Colombia), Ryan Mullen (Ireland), Patrick Gamper (Austria) and Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eritrea).
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- and which incredible and magic substance is this, undetectable by thousand of tests and known only by Pogacar? Couldn't be that he is as talented as Merckx, for example? One of the most indicative variable of human stupidity is explain the reality by complots. And please, don't talk about Armstrong case, that kind of case is absolute impossible with other rider (no cancer to hide the doping behind fake innovative methods in cancer treatments)
maria2024202403-05-2025 - Can't see Remco making an impact at the Tour. Maybe next year if he stops riding very near parked vehicles on narrow roads at speed.Renz03-05-2025
- Utter stupidity. HE the the premier rider for them. Why is he pacing someone else who has not even proven themselves. That too in the light of the TT to come. 5 mil for domestique . One wont see these antics from Pogi or Jonas unless they are completely out.abstractengineer03-05-2025
- It's irrelevant whether the riders will oppose safety measures or not. The UCI have demonstrated time and again that they don't care what the riders think. The UCI will implement whatever they want (which based on recent history, has nothing related to rider safety anyway). Also, it's not like the riders have a vote anyway, so it's a hilarious and irrelevant point that you are making.Pogboom03-05-2025
- He forgets Landa, Merlier who have won or come close. if Remco leaves you simply become a sprint oriented team with talent already present. Sponsors have Remco on this team they are not going to get that chance with the big teams anyway when Remco moves. Also Remco's value isnt as high as before due to Pogi and Jonasabstractengineer03-05-2025
- The root cause of most crashes are the riders and do you know who will oppose the introduction of a new safety device-The riders.abstractengineer03-05-2025
- you’re everything wrong about our worldmij03-05-2025
- "Mathieu has also cleaned up everything on the road in the past two years" This year he was given a fight by Pogi in MSR and PR. and he was defeated in Flanders. In other races he is not even close to winning. There was no cleanup.abstractengineer03-05-2025
- Surely people had more fun watching you and your old "coworkers" saving energy for 4-5 hours and attacking the last 500 meters. Uff.. very funny. Typical resentful "old" cyclists against an incredibly talented (and disruptive) young man.maria2024202403-05-2025
- What's more pressure than trying to beat MVDP in a one-day sprinter's classic? It's like trying to win a grand tour stage in a bunch sprint.. They both put each other in the pressure cooker, but JV needs to win, in my opinion, more than TP. Throw in Primoz and Remco in the climber's mix, and its going to be an exciting TDF.FredMan03-05-2025
Narvaez was a national champion of 🇪🇨