"In broad outline, this nice parcours of the Tour de France 2024 is composed of a solid opening weekend in Italy, sufficient opportunities for sprinters and a very difficult closing weekend in the Alps. Our ambition is to make our colours shine from the Grand Départ in Florence to honour our numerous Italian partners. At first sight, the opportunities for the sprinters from day three could lead to ultra rapid finals, but we'll analyse each kilometer of all these stages in details to determine the best strategy. Because I'm also convinced that this route offers opportunities for teams with an aggressive style of racing, which is not displeasing to us." "From the perspective of a good final classification for Louis Meintjes I'm also satisfied with the mountain stages in the Pyrenees and the Alps. The numerous climbing kilometers in the beginning of the stages are beneficial for him, especially to closer we get to the end of a Grand Tour. A long road has to be accomplished before this rude closing weekend. To reach it in good conditions, we for example have to handle an exciting ninth stage with 32 kilometer of gravel roads. Numerous opportunities will be presented to the riders of Intermarché-Circus-Wanty between Florence and Nice, I'm convinced that we will seize them to win our first stage in the Tour."
