The beginning of 2024 found the American climber in a great spot, immediately battling it out for a top 10 at the UAE Tour to come less than 15 second short due to his weaker time trial. After that couple nice results came for Riccitello (such as 10th at the Mercan'Tour Classic or 13th overall at Giro d'Abruzzo) but what we have seen at Tour de Suisse was by far the best of the pocket climber's short professional career so far.
Riccitello finished fifth in the general classifcation after a solid mountain time trial where he clocked 4th time, putting within the sight of overall podium. "Today it was good again. Maybe I started a little too fast. I was just very ambitious, I wanted to go up or take the white. But hey, it was still strong. I'm just really happy with this week, since I've been cycling I wanted to ride at this level of classifications. That's really cool and gives motivation," said the youngster from Israel - Premier Tech
afterwards.
