Filippo Ganna, Elia Viviani and different key individuals of the lads’s Italian monitor group are anticipated to start their 2024 season on the Excursion Down Beneath in Australia ahead of using the monitor International locations Cup in Adelaide on February 2 as key preparation and qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Ganna will anchor the group pursuit squad at the monitor and likewise trip the person time trial in Paris, however the pageant time table approach he can’t additionally trip the street race. Ganna has already showed that he’s going to trip the Giro d’Italia and pass over the Excursion de France in order that he may also be at his absolute best for Paris.
Italy gained the lads’s group pursuit in Tokyo in 2021 and needs to make up for fresh defeats to Denmark in Paris.
“My giant objective for the season is the Olympics. I’ll do the Giro d’Italia however now not the Excursion de France,” he showed remaining week on the Giro d’Italia course presentation ahead of beginning his low season.
Viviani is concentrated on the monitor with the Omnium and Madison, his imaginable objectives in his ultimate look on the Olympics. The 2 Ineos Grenadiers riders usually are joined in Australia by way of Manlio Moro, who will trip for Movistar in 2024 and possibly Jonathan Milan and Simone Consonni, who’ve nonetheless to finalise their race programmes after their transfer to Lidl-Trek for 2024.
The Italian girls’s monitor squad faces a an identical monitor and highway conundrum, with Elisa Balsamo, Chiara Consonni, Martina Fidanza and Martina Alzini having to mix racing with their skilled groups and the nationwide squad.
Italian nationwide monitor trainer Marco Vila highlighted the trouble of mixing a WorldTour highway race programme with Olympic ambitions as he published the trail to the Paris Olympics for the Italian monitor riders.
“The street and monitor are incompatible. Ganna will trip the group pursuit and the time trial. There’s extra of a possibility for the ladies to race extra for the reason that highway race is scheduled for Saturday (July 27), and the group pursuit begins at the Tuesday after.”
The Italian nationwide group will cling coaching camps in Sicily in mid-November and December and do monitor paintings in four-day blocks in Italy, together with one between Christmas and New Yr. The WorldTour riders will even have to mix their nationwide squad coaching with their WorldTour group coaching camps.
The Eu Championships Netherlands between January 10-14 might be a key check for the Italian nationwide monitor group, however the Excursion Down Beneath is held on the similar time.
“Viviani, Ganna Moro gained’t trip the Eu Championships as a result of they’ll almost definitely have left for the Excursion Down Beneath. However Ineos and Movistar have already given the k for them to trip the International locations Cup,” Villa informed L. a. Gazzetta dello Game.
“Milan and Consonni are speaking to their group about their programme, and we’ll quickly know in the event that they’ll trip the Eu Championships or additionally trip the Excursion Down Beneath. The ladies will have to all be within the Netherlands.”
L. a. Gazzetta dello Game steered that Ganna will trip Milan-San Remo (March 16) and Paris-Roubaix (April 7) ahead of once more switching to the monitor for the International locations Cup match in Milton, Canada, between April 12-14, the overall International locations Cup ahead of the Paris Olympics. The likes of Milan and Balsamo may do the similar.
“I’m hoping to have the most productive riders for the lads’s and girls’s group interests for Canada. They arrive after the Classics however ahead of any coaching for the lads’s Giro d’Italia,” Villa stated.
Effects from the 2023 Global Championships and the most productive two leads to International locations Cup occasions from 2023 and 2024 are important for Olympic qualification.