Tour de France 2024 embarks from Florence, Pogacar starts favourite
The HinduThe Tour de France embarks from the Italian city of Florence on Saturday with Tadej Pogacar gunning for a historic Giro-Tour double, while champion Jonas Vingegaard seeks a third straight title with the battle set to go down to the wire in three weeks time in Nice. The big four all predicted the first two days would feature a scrap for the yellow jersey between Visma’s Wout Van Aert and his eternal rival Mathieu Van der Poel. Adam Yates is one of four UAE riders described by team leader Pogacar as “superstars”, and he would seem equipped to take the yellow jersey again after beating his twin brother Simon to the line on day one last year. - Giro-Tour double - Winner of the 2020 and 2021 Tour de France, Pogacar won the Giro d’Italia with supreme ease in May and is gunning to become the first rider since Marco Pantani in 1998—the year Pogacar was born—to win the rare combination of a Tour-Giro double.