To be able to compete for the first Grand Tour on the calendar, you need to be able to prepare for it. This ambitious project of a double Giro-Tour participation is in trouble. The organizer of the Tour of Italy, RCS, has decided to postpone the presentation of the route by two months, namely next January 13.
The reason would be financial. The organizer hopes to be able to give the big start from Albania, but several logistical agreements have not yet been concluded. A plan B exists, namely a departure to Sicily, but which remains only an emergency solution.
Whatever happens, the champions will only know the course in two months. For some, this date would come too late in a calendar already locked down by other objectives. For Remco and Lefevere, the decision has not yet been made: “We already had a first team meeting last week, but we haven’t made that choice yetassures the Flandrian technician. Are we waiting for the presentation of the Tour of Italy route to decide? Not necessarily, the route is not the only criterion that weighs in this decision. It is above all the choice and the will of the runner which are decisive. The start of Remco’s season should in any case be quite comparable to this year.”
