With simply ten days till the 2024 Tour de France, the squad bulletins are steadily starting to come back in.
Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen will lead Alpecin-Deceuninck on the Tour, a reality which has been identified for a very long time, nevertheless it was confirmed on Monday.
The duo, who’ve completed first and second at Paris-Roubaix for the final two editions, will as soon as once more crew up on the roads of Italy and France.
They are going to be joined by Søren Kragh Andersen and Gianni Vermeersch, amongst others.
Groupama-FDJ, of their first Tour since Thibaut Pinot retired, will as soon as once more be led by David Gaudu. The mercurial Frenchman shall be joined by Valentin Madouas, Stefan Küng and Lenny Martinez.
Oscar Onley is about to make his debut on the French Grand Tour, in a dsm-firmenich PostNL squad attempting to find stage wins.
The younger Brit shall be joined by the skilled Romain Bardet, Warren Barguil and John Degenkolb, whereas Fabio Jakobsen may even be there in search of leads to the dash levels.
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Additionally on the crew are Nils Eekhoff, Frank van den Broek, and Bram Welten.
Ineos Grenadiers’ basic classification bid shall be led by Carlos Rodríguez, stage winner and fifth general final yr, however the British crew additionally has star energy and expertise by way of Tom Pidcock and Geraint Thomas.
The trio shall be helped by Egan Bernal, Jonathan Castroviejo, Laurens De Plus, Michał Kwiatkowski, and Ben Turner.
Additionally introduced on Monday have been the lineups for Movistar, Astana Qazaqstan and Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale.
For Astana Qazaqstan, it’s all about Mark Cavendish, who’s focusing on another stage win to make historical past. He shall be assisted by Michael Mørkøv, Alexey Lutsenko, Yevgeniy Federov, Cees Bol, Harold Tejada, Davide Ballerini, and Michele Gazzoli.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, in the meantime, go along with a break up technique between GC and stage wins. Felix Gall is their man for the mountains, after his stage win final yr, and Sam Bennett shall be there for the sprints.
It’s a multi-layered crew, although, with Bruno Armirail, Paul Lapeira, Dorian Godon, Nans Peters, Oliver Naesen, and Nicolas Prodhomme all presenting completely different choices.
Lidl-Trek, with out Tao Geoghegan Hart, will intention for stage win glory by way of Mads Pedersen, a winner on the two earlier editions, and Giulio Ciccone, the King of the Mountains eventually yr’s race.
The pair shall be joined by Julien Bernard, Tim Declercq, Ryan Gibbons, Toms Skujiņš, Jasper Stuyven, and Carlos Verona.
Lotto Dstny shall be led by newly-crowned Belgian champion Arnaud De Lie on the Tour, which won’t solely be his first time on the race, however any Grand Tour. Having crushed final yr’s inexperienced jersey winner, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) on the nationals, he’ll hope he can do it once more.
Along with Maxim Van Gils, Victor Campenaerts, Brent Van Moer, Jarrad Drizners, Hurt Vanhoucke, Sébastien Grignard and Cedric Beullens, the purpose is stage wins.
In the meantime, Movistar shall be led by Enric Mas, because the Spaniard mounts one other GC problem; his highest end was fourth general in 2021.
He shall be joined by Oier Lazkano, Davide Formolo, Nelson Oliveira, Alex Aranburu, Fernando Gaviria, Gregor Mühlberger and Javier Romo.
Bahrain-Victorious will take 2023 stage winners Pello Bilbao and Matej Mohorič, together with the former British champion Fred Wright. The latter shall be hoping his luck lastly holds if he makes it right into a breakaway.
The trio shall be joined by Wout Poels, Phil Bauhaus, Santiago Buitrago, Jack Haig and Nikias Arndt, in a crew sturdy in stage-winning potential, with a GC bid additionally a risk.
UAE Staff Emirates’ lineup was all however confirmed already, nevertheless it was revealed final week.
Helping Tadej Pogačar in his bid for historical past – a Giro d’Italia and Tour double – shall be Juan Ayuso, Pavel Sivakov, Marc Soler, Nils Politt, Adam Yates, João Almeida and Tim Wellens.
In Ayuso, Yates and Almeida, UAE have three hyper-domestiques who could possibly be crew leaders at a Grand Tour themselves. Yates, specifically, shall be key, with the Briton profitable the latest Tour de Suisse, and likewise ending third on the Tour de France final yr.
Israel-Premier Tech additionally launched their eight-man crew sheet, which incorporates 4 debutants, two of whom are Brits: Jake Stewart, Stevie Williams, Pascal Ackermann and Derek Gee. Williams and Gee, specifically, have proven their prime type at occasions this yr.
The crew has expertise, in Guillaume Boivin, Jakob Fuglsang, Hugo Houle and Krists Neilands. Notably, there is no such thing as a Chris Froome.
Visma-Lease a Bike shall be led by Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert. The pair have been judged to have sufficiently recovered to be there on the French Grand Tour when it will get underway.
The pair shall be joined by Matteo Jorgenson, Sepp Kuss, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman, and Jan Tratnik.
Each Vingegaard and Van Aert have had injury-interrupted seasons, with the previous in severe doubt for the Tour, with the defending champion dashing to get well from accidents sustained within the horror crash at Itzulia Basque Nation in April. The Dane suffered a number of damaged ribs, a collapsed lung, and a damaged collarbone within the incident.
Nonetheless, his crew confirmed that he has recovered sufficient to “battle for a great consequence” within the Tour.
Jayco AIUIa confirmed that Simon Yates, Michael Matthews and Dylan Groenewegen would lead the cost for the crew as they hunt for stage wins and a excessive basic classification end for Yates.
Luke Durbridge, Chris Harper, Chris Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec and Elmar Reinders full the Jayco lineup.
Uno-X Mobility have been the primary crew to launch their lineup.
The Norwegian crew shall be led by Magnus Cort and Alexander Kristoff, two riders who’ve tasted success on the French Grand Tour prior to now.
The pair shall be joined by six extra Scandinavians – all Norwegians, by the way – Jonas Abrahamsen, Tobias Halland Johannessen, Rasmus Fossum Tiller, Søren Wærenskjold, Johannes Kulset and Odd Christian Eiking.
The 2024 race begins on Saturday 29 June in Florence, Italy, and finishes in Good, France, simply over three weeks in a while 20 July. Learn our information to the Tour’s route right here.
Eight males are allowed in every squad, with a mixture of climbers, sprinters, basic classification hopefuls and domestiques. All 18 WorldTour groups shall be current, alongside ProTeams Israel-Premier Tech, Lotto Dstny, Uno-X, and TotalEnergies.
Under are the confirmed squads for the race. We’ll replace this web page with extra riders as groups are introduced.
Tour de France 2024 begin checklist
Alpecin-Deceuninck
DILLIER Silvan (Sui)
GHYS Robbe (Bel)
KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren (Den)
LAURANCE Axel (Fra)
PHILIPSEN Jasper (Bel)
RICKAERT Jonas (Bel)
VAN DER POEL Mathieu (Ned)
VERMEERSCH Gianni (Bel)
Arkéa-B&B Lodges
Astana-Qazaqstan
CAVENDISH Mark (GBr)
MØRKØV Michael (Den)
LUTSENKO Alexey (Kaz)
FEDOROV Yevgeniy (Kaz)
GAZZOLI Michele (Ita)
TEJADA Harold (Col)
BALLERINI Davide (Ita)
BOL Cees (Ned)
Bahrain-Victorious
MOHORIČ Matej (Slo)
POELS Wout (Ned)
BILBAO Pello (Esp)
BAUHAUS Phil (Deu)
BUITRAGO Santiago (Col)
HAIG Jack (Aus)
WRIGHT Fred (GBr)
ARNDT Nikias (Deu)
Bora-Hansgrohe
Cofidis
ALLEGAERT Piet (Bel)
COQUARD Bryan (Fra)
GESCHKE Simon (Deu)
HERRADA Jesus (Esp)
IZAGIRRE Ion (Esp)
MARTIN Guillaume (Fra)
RENARD Alexis (Fra)
ZINGLE Axel (Fra)
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
GALL Felix (Aut)
PETERS Nans (Fra)
GODON Dorian (Fra)
NAESEN Oliver (Bel)
BENNETT Sam (Ire)
PRODHOMME Nicolas (Fra)
LAPEIRA Paul (Fra)
ARMIRAIL Bruno (Fra)
dsm-firmenich PostNL
BARDET Romain (Fra)
BARGUIL Warren (Fra)
DEGENKOLB John (Deu)
EEKHOFF Nils (Ned)
JAKOBSEN Fabio (Ned)
ONLEY Oscar (GBr)
VAN DEN BROEK Frank (Ned)
WELTEN Bram (Ned)
EF Schooling-EasyPost
Groupama-FDJ
GAUDU David (Fra)
GENIETS Kevin (Lux)
GRÉGOIRE Romain (Fra)
KÜNG Stefan (Sui)
MADOUAS Valentin (Fra)
MARTINEZ Lenny (Fra)
PACHER Quentin (Fra)
RUSSO Clément (Fra)
Ineos Grenadiers
RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (Esp)
THOMAS Geraint (GBr)
PIDCOCK Tom (GBr)
KWIATKOWSKI Michał (Pol)
BERNAL Egan (Col)
DE PLUS Laurens (Bel)
TURNER Ben (GBr)
CASTROVIEJO Jonathan (Esp)
Jayco-AlUla
DURBRIDGE Luke (Aus)
GROENEWEGEN Dylan (Ned)
HARPER Chris (AuS)
JUUL-JENSEN Chris (Den)
MATTHEWS Michael (Aus)
MEZGEC Luka (Slo)
REINDERS Elmar (Ned)
YATES Simon (Gbr)
Intermarché-Wanty
Israel-Premier Tech
ACKERMANN Pascal (Deu)
BOIVIN Guillaume (Can)
FUGLSANG Jakob (Den)
GEE Derek (Can)
HOULE Hugo (Can)
NEILANDS Krists (Lat)
STEWART Jake (GBr)
WILLIAMS Stevie (GBr)
Lidl-Trek
BERNARD Julien (Fra)
CICCONE Giulio (Ita)
DECLERCQ Tim (Bel)
GIBBONS Ryan (RSA)
PEDERSEN Mads (Den)
SKUJINŠ Toms (Lat)
STUYVEN Jasper (Bel)
VERONA Carlos (Esp)
Lotto Dstny
VAN GILS Maxim (Bel)
DE LIE Arnaud (Bel)
CAMPENAERTS Victor (Bel)
VAN MOER Brent (Bel)
DRIZNERS Jarrad (Bel)
VANHOUCKE Hurt (Bel)
GRIGNARD Sébastien (Bel)
BEULLENS Cedric (Bel)
Movistar
MAS Enric (Esp)
LAZKANO Oier (Esp)
OLIVEIRA Nelson (Por)
FORMOLO Davide (Ita)
ARANBURU Alex (Esp)
GAVIRIA Fernando (Col)
ROMO Javier (Esp)
MÜHLBERGER Gregor (Aut)
Soudal Fast-Step
TotalEnergies
BURGAUDEAU Mathieu (Fra)
CRAS Steff (Bel)
TURGIS Anthony (Fra)
JEGAT Jordan (Fra)
GACHIGNARD Thomas (Fra)
VERCHER Mattéo (Fra)
DUJARDIN Sandy (Fra)
GRELLIER Fabien (Fra)
UAE Staff Emirates
POGAČAR Tadej (Slo)
ALMEIDA João (Por)
AYUSO Juan (Esp)
POLITT Nils (Deu)
SIVAKOV Pavel (Fra)
SOLER Marc (Esp)
WELLENS Tim (Bel)
YATES Adam (GBr)
Uno-X Mobility
CORT Magnus (Den)
KULSET Johannes (Nor)
TILLER Rasmus (Nor)
EIKING Odd Christian (Nor)
KRISTOFF Alexander (Nor)
WÆRENSKJOLD Søren (Nor)
JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland (Nor)
ABRAHAMSEN Jonas (Nor)
Visma-Lease a Bike
BENOOT Tiesj (Bel)
JORGENSON Matteo (USA)
KELDERMAN Wilco (Ned)
KUSS Sepp (USA)
LAPORTE Christophe (Fra)
TRATNIK Jan (Slo)
VAN AERT Wout (Bel)
VINGEGAARD Jonas (Den)
