Tour of the Basque Country 2024: Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard likely to start
The reigning Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic were team-mates at Jumbo-Visma until the end of 2023 - from this season Visma | Lease a Bike. The Danish Tour title winner and his challenger from Bora-Hansgrohe will probably meet for the first time in 2024 at the Tour of the Basque Country from 1 to 6 April. This is reported GCN.
According to the plan, Roglic will first race Paris-Nice (3 to 10 March) in March - in 2023 he still competed in the parallel event Tirreno-Adriatico, which Vingegaard will tackle in 2024. At Paris-Nice, Roglic will be up against Remco Evenepoel while Vingegaard will probably have to deal with Tadej Pogacar is measured.
Another duel at the Criterium du Dauphine?
The complete race programme by Primoz Roglic is scheduled to take place on Wednesday at a presentation by Bora-Hansgrohe will be unveiled on Mallorca. According to GCN the three-time Vuelta winner is to take a longer break from racing after the Tour of the Basque Country and only contest the Criterium du Dauphine at the beginning of June on his way to the Tour de France, where Vingegaard is also expected to return.
Primoz Roglic's race programme up to the Tour de France according to GCN
The racing calendar from Jonas Vingegaard to the Tour de France
- 22-25 February: O Gran Camino
- 4-10 March: Tirreno-Adriatico
- 1-6 April: Tour of the Basque Country
- 2-9 June: Criterium du Dauphine
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