Bardet passes the Giro d 'Italia and puts everything on the Tour de France

Romain Bardet will not feature at the start of the next Giro d'Italia. This brought his AG2R La Mondiale team to the outside. The climber had recalled the double Giro-Tour, but was still focused on the French round.

The director of the team, Vincent Lavenu, The Team informed that it was an informed choice. . "The Giro road, it's a little less Roman." Lavenu mainly refers to the number of kilometers of individual time trial in the Italian round. In total, the riders will have to travel 58.5 kilometers against the clock, spread over three races against the clock.

This is considerably more than in the Tour, where they will only benefit from a single 27km individual time trial race. In addition, in the Great Loop a 27-kilometer team time trial program is also planned. In addition, the upcoming Tour includes many mountain stages, the Bardet field.

Classical program
In the perspective of the Tour, Bardet will complete a classical program with Paris-Nice (March 10-17). , the Tour of Catalonia (March 25th to 31st) and the Critérium du Dauphiné (June 9th to 16th). He will avoid the classics. "But I will perhaps make an exception for Liege-Bastogne-Liege," he says to Het Nieuwsblad . "I'm waiting to know what the new finale will look like."

A return to Crossing Flanders is certainly not the case. "These are great races, but we already have a good spring team.These men do not expect that a neo-Fleming like me will get in their way.I also think Oliver Naesen would prefer that I follow the classics of pavement for television, "jokes the French

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