Tour de France 2024 - team line-ups

[Escarabajo]

Gaviria to the Movistar line up surprises me. The only things that I can think off is: Points and ease some pressure to Enric Mas. The last one due to the results of the last stage races. But this is just me thinking out loud.

 

[Netserk]

My first reaction on seeing that wine bottle label was that they had selected Teutenberg, because everytime I see his name the kerning seems to make it look like Tim Tom, rather than Tim Torn. I have genuinely only become aware while checking for this post that the name ends RN, not in an M.

My first reaction was to wonder why Giulio isn't a fine enough first name to feature.

 

[ice&fire]

Five-leader strategy, the Movistar of the 2020s

Lazkano, Aranburu and Gaviria can collect more UCI points with a few random stage top-10s than Enric Mas has collected in the last two editions. They clearly don't want all their eggs in Enric's basket.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Movistar not happy with public complaints: Cavagna out.

 

[roundabout]

I actually looked at the wrong table in one of the other threads (I think the Israel one)

A stage win is worth more points than 11th on GC and 4 stage 5th places are worth more than 10th on GC so it makes sense to have a rider who can score points in the flat stages with 7 to 9 stages possibly ending in large group sprints.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Well there's just no point selecting a team purely made to ride for Enric when you look at who's lining up. Great to have some options, and maybe Enric will finally be in a decent position coming into the 3rd week and get a top-5 or something similar like that.

 

[Movitrain]

Thank God I was wrong about Lazkano not being selected because of his contract situation.

 

[search]

Movistar not happy with public complaints: Cavagna out.

wasn't it more like the other way around?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Also confirmed:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805216842425786547

View: https://twitter.com/TeamCOFIDIS/status/1805216842425786547


and

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805209643775312033

View: https://twitter.com/TeamTotalEnrg/status/1805209643775312033

 

[RedheadDane]

Guess the management at Cofidis let cooler heads prevail, and included Zingle even though he's supposedly on his way out.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Bottle was a nice touch, most of others look like the last guy at the training did them.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Re Almeida "not being content"; his face always betrays emotions. Can't you tell? He was genuinely happy to work for Yates and being second. Part of it probably because his shape has been uncertain after another covid infection in the beginning of the year.

Also Yates doesn't come off as sneaky.

The only one who might mess things up really is Ayuso. He's also crash prone which is another way to mess up.

Why is he genuinely happy to work for Yates and to finish second, after already gifting a stage win to Yates and pushing best numbers, though? The only reason left i see as possibility is he is co-leading the UAE Tour team and expects Yates to be on board with that. We'll see.

 

[Monte Serra]

Lenny Martinez to ride the Tour!

GROUPAMA-FDJ
GAUDU David
GENIETS Kevin
GRÉGOIRE Romain
KÜNG Stefan
MADOUAS Valentin
MARTINEZ Lenny
PACHER Quentin
RUSSO Clément

Madiot should be fired if he doesn't bring Lenny Martinez to the Tour. While they still have him on the payroll, better to get some proper exposure out of him.

Madiot can keep his job, for now.

 

[will-10]

Movistar not happy with public complaints: Cavagna out.

suspect these two things are the other way around: Cavagna told he didn't make the Tour team, complains in the press

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

And DSM announcing too:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805248669161029645

View: https://twitter.com/dsmfirmpostnl/status/1805248669161029645

 

[Fantastico]

suspect these two things are the other way around: Cavagna told he didn't make the Tour team, complains in the press

No, in the reports on his complaints he still says that he is hoping to make the TdF roster.

 

[Bolder]

And DSM announcing too:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805248669161029645

View: https://twitter.com/dsmfirmpostnl/status/1805248669161029645

Onley to poach a stage win.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Lenny Martinez to ride the Tour!

GROUPAMA-FDJ
GAUDU David
GENIETS Kevin
GRÉGOIRE Romain
KÜNG Stefan
MADOUAS Valentin
MARTINEZ Lenny
PACHER Quentin
RUSSO Clément



Madiot can keep his job, for now.

Interesting!

Just looking through all the teams, the level will be incredibly high (duh). But really, all these teams seem to really have topped off their squads and only a few sprinters and GC-riders from the Giro are missing. Milan and Ganna seems to be the two biggest riders really, and then you have some second and their tier GC-riders as well. This will be a good (and fast) one lads.

I really cannot wait when reading through all these selected riders.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So after a flurry of team announcements, today, now it's your turn to pick your 8.
Prices for the riders are now available for the Tour de France CQ Game, and most of the riders to take part are now known, so it's all down to you now.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Movistar not happy with public complaints: Cavagna out.

And not good enough.

 

[yaco]

Gaviria getting to do Giro + Tour for Movistar is a bit of a surprise but no obvious leadout so maybe they see him more as a domestique for Mas?

The sprint field is limited so you may as well send Gaviria.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The AG2R team is looking solid, Gall needs more rouleur support on flat stages than climbing doms anyway.
Peters, who hasn't been that great this year so far, over Berthet is a bit of a surprise to me, since the later was clearly stronger in both the NC and the Classic Alpes-Maritimes, but whatever.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Movistar not happy with public complaints: Cavagna out.

Well I guess if he cannot speak Spanish, and the team communicate in Spanish, he was communicating in a language he can speak to a person who can understand him.
What an absolute mess. Assume his agent got the best financial deal he could without considering anything else. What a *** up.

 

[Potomac]

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Not last!