Tadej Pogacar set to race Strade Bianche, Tirreno, Milan-San Remo next March
2024 plans take shape with February Portugal trip for Figue𝕴ira Champions Classic and Volta ao Algarve

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar is likely to make a return to Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Milan-San Remo next♚ Marc꧟h, with the Italian races set to fill out his early spring calendar.
The Slovenian superstar has yet to finalise his 2024 calendar, with that to be confirmed at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates' media day on December 18.
has reported that Pogačar is set to spend his March racing the trio of Italian WorldTour races, with Strade Bianche (March 2) and Tirreno-Adriatico (March 4-10) back on his schedule after skipping the pair in 2023.The season's first Monument at M✨ilan-San Remo (March 16) should also feature in his plans after scoring fifth and fourth places at La Primavera in recent participations. Choosing the Italian races means that he wouldn't return to France to defend his Paris-Nice title next March.
Pogačar has mixed and matched his early season racing during his five years as a pro, having lined up at the Tour Down Under, UAE Tour, Volta ao Algarve, and last year the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior and Vuelta a Andalucía in January and February.
2024 will see the 25-year-old take on a new challenge for his first races of the year as he heads to Portugal. He'll line up at the Figueira Champions Classic, a one-day race holding its second edition on February 10. A return to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta ao Algarve (February 14-18) for the first time since his victory there 🙈in 2019 is also on the cards.
The five-day stage race, which features its usual uphill finishes at Foiá and Malhão as well as a 22km time trial, has so far confirmed 10 WorldTour teams for next February. UAE Team Emirates will be joined by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel and Soudal-QuickStep as well as Lidl-Trek and Alpecin-Deceuninck, among others, while Ineos Grenadiers and Visma-Lease a Bike should♋ also start.
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The lesser-known Figueira Champions Classic, last year a 1.1 race before stepping up to 1.Pro status for 2024, is 𝔍held on the west coast of Portugal betwไeen Porto and Lisbon. Last year Casper Pedersen (Soudal-QuickStep) won from a small lead group on the hilly 190km route, while this time around eight WorldTour teams are down to take part.
Of course, Pogačar's 2024 goals will lie beyond the early season warm-up races in Portugal. A fifth start at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Strade Bianche, which he won in 2022, will give him more kilometres on off-road terrain several months ahead of the vital gravel-packed stage 9 of the Tour de Fra♐nce.
He'll be in the mix for victory at Tirreno-Adriatico – which he's won twice before &ndaꦫsh; and Milan-San Remo, too, while he has yet to confirm whether April will see him focus on defending his Tour of Flanders title or build around the Ar♍dennes triple.
July's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France will be his main objective of the season, with a mooted Giro d'Italia debut not in his plans. Instead, he'll line up bids at becoming Olympic and꧂ world champion in Paris and Zürich later in the year.
"The principal goals are the Tour, the Olympics and the Worlds. That's in chronological order, not importance," 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pogačar said recently. "Riding the Giro is one of my dreams but I can't say if I'll ride. I haven't spoken to my coaches at UAE Team Emirat🔯es, we haven't discussed the details of what I'll do. I'll decide my race programme in December. But I could have too many obligations to include the Giro."

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