The French runner announced it on Tuesday 19 April via Eurosport and on his Instagram account, he will participate in the Tour of Italy which will start from Hungary on 6 at 29 next may.
RETURN OF SITUATION
While he was not supposed to do the Tour of Italy and focus on the Tour de France, fine element, he will do the Tour of Italy. In 2021, he was making his debut on the Italian Grand Tour. He went to DSM to get out of his comfort zone and see how things are going abroad, his first season was pretty good. A 7The Tour of the Pays de Vaud place on the general classification of the Tour of Italy enough to motivate him for this year.
« In mai, Do as you like ", this expression says a lot about the character of Romain Bardet. His team leaves him the choice to make his own decisions. in addition, editing 2022 of the Tour of Italy is for pure climbers. With an arrival at the top of the 4The Tour of the Pays de Vaud step on the Etna volcano. And also a sequence of little classics, with breakneck paths as we would say in the jargon. But above all 26 Km of time trial which is very little compared to other editions. The last 40 km, or in 2020 with 64.9Km of solitary effort.
AN ENCOURAGING START TO THE SEASON, A FALL IN CORK…
Romain Bardet comes out of a season ticket. 9The Tour of the Pays de Vaud of the UAE Tour, 12The Tour of the Pays de Vaud of the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic, 1is of the Tour of the Alps. Good stage races where they had to respond. Unfortunately on the oldest of the classics on Sunday 24 April he fell and could not dispute his chances. No serious injury and he is delighted because for Julian Alaphilippe, Jérémy Cabot or Thomas Pidcock was much worse.
After his first Tour of Italy last year, the Frenchman had warned that he would come back even better prepared but no one knew that it was this year that he wanted to come back.. Seeing that his form was optimal for the kind of an internship at altitude with in particular his right arm in the mountainsThymen Arensman, he decided to add the Tour of Italy to his program with always the Tour de France normally. We feel a Romain Bardet more than determined this year. Its his second season at DSM, he is dad, more liberated, it seems on the voice of a prestigious victory on the roads of Italy.
TOUR OF ITALY
For sure, intrinsically the Giro d'Italia is the grand tour best suited to its qualities. Due to these many mountain stages and Romain is a pure climber. During an interview by the team he said: ” I want to fight for the highest (ndlr: 7The Tour of the Pays de Vaud in 2021). In any case, I wanted to come back to the Giro fairly quickly., which is the most unpredictable grand tour… .”
BUT THEN QUID OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE ?
As the Giro d'Italia ends on 29 next May in Verona, the Tour de France starts a few weeks later, but will the French be back in time for the Tour of Italy. Romain Bardet is still uncertain of chaining the two grand tours : “Honestly, we'll see after the Giro how I'm doing. ” The man of 31 years will participate in his first Tour de France with DSM : “If I go on the Tour, I'm in good shape.
We will see in June how I recover from the Giro. I do not want to take a Tour in anonymity. There could be nothing worse than that. If I go on the Tour, it's that I feel that I recovered well from the Giro to be an actor and weighed in on the race, on some stages anyway.” The Frenchman's last Tour de France was in 2020. He had to give up following a concussion.
