It’s this Thursday afternoon, a few hours before the presentation of the teams of Tour de France 2024that the training Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team revealed the jersey that the new French road champion will wear for a year: Paul Lapeira ! And if some national champions are difficult to recognize within the peloton, this will not be the case for the 24-year-old Norman, who will wear a very beautiful blue-white-red tunic. He will wear it for the first time in competition on Saturday during the 1st stage of the Tour de Francea race that he will discover and on which he will be able to fully realize his new popularity.
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The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team for the 111th Tour de France
The two 2024 French champions will be at the start of the 111th Tour de France (June 29 – July 21)! Respectively titled Thursday in the time trial and Sunday in the road race, Bruno Armirail et Paul Lapeira are part of the selection announced by the Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team. As expected, Felix Gallwinner of the queen stage and eighth in the Tour in 2023, will be the only card of the general manager’s team Vincent Lavenu for the general classification since Ben O’Connorfourth from last Tour of Italywill not be on the roads of France this summer.
For the first time in a long time, training Decathlon AG2R The World Team will also present himself with a great sprinter since Sam Bennett, winner of two stages and green jersey four years ago, was selected. The Irishman had no longer participated in the Tour de France since this famous 2020 edition. Dorian Godon, Nans Peters, Nicolas Prodhomme et Oliver Naesen were also summoned, unlike Benoit Cosnefroy, which is the big absentee from this list. Since its beginnings on the Tour in 2019, the Norman had never missed the Big loop.
