Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Monday October 14, 2024 at 10:07 p.m.
The nominees for the various Vélos d’Or were revealed this Monday. We will know on December 6 who will succeed Jonas Vingegaard and Demi Vollering.
The Ballon d’Or ceremony, which rewards (among others) the best footballer of the 2023-24 season, will be awarded on October 28 in Paris, and a few weeks later, on December 6 still in the French capital, these are the Vélos D’Or which will be awarded to the best cyclists of the 2024 season. The nominees for the different categories were revealed this Monday, and in the queen category, that of the men’s Vélo d’Or, we find ten cyclists who shone this year. Starting with the big favorite Tadej Pocagar, winner of 25 races, including the Tour de France, the Giro, the world championships, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy. Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, also world time trial champion, is also among the nominees, as is Mathieu van der Poel, winner of only four races, but among them, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. The green jersey of the Tour de France Biniam Girmay, the man of the end of the season Marc Hirschi, the winner of Paris-Nice Matteo Jorgenson, the European champion Tim Merlier, the winner of the Vuelta Primoz Roglic, his runner-up Ben O ‘Connor and Tour de France runner-up and 2023 Vélo d’Or winner Jonas Vingegaard also have the honor of being nominated.
Olympic medalists in the spotlight
If no Frenchman is nominated in the men’s Vélo d’Or category, a Frenchwoman is among the ten nominated for women: Evita Muzic, fourth in the Tour de France and victorious in a stage of the Vuelta. But she will not be favorite against the winner of the Grande Boucle Katarzyna Niewiadoma, the world champion Lotte Kopecky or the Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner. Apart from the Vélos d’Or, other trophies will be awarded, notably the Eddy Merckx trophy for the best classics rider (Hirschi, Philipsen, Pogacar, Pedersen, Van der Poel) and the best female rider (Balsamo, Kopecky, Longo Borghini , Vos, Wiebes). In the Olympic year, a trophy will be awarded to the best runner at the Olympics. The French, generally not very present in these nominations, are guaranteed to leave with the Daniel Morelon trophy for the best French cyclist at the Olympics (André, Daudet, Ferrand-Prévôt, Koretzky, Thomas), the Bernard Hinault trophy for the best Frenchman on the road ( Bardet, Cosnefroy, Labous, Laporte, Martinez…) and the trophy for the best tricolor at the Paralympic Games, where the Blues won 28 medals (Bosredon, Gaugain, Jouanny, Leauté, Patouillet).
