Uno-X Mobility, with Magnus Cort and Alexander Kristoff as headline riders, became the first team to announce the 2024 Tour de France 8・man full team.
Will join them at the Grand Department Store in Florence on 6/29 Jonas Abrahamsen, Tobias Halland Johannesen, Rasmus Fossum Tiller, Søren Wærenskjold, Johannes Kulset and Odd Christian Eiking.
This is my 2nd appearance on the tour of the Norwegian team. On the first attempt in 2023, they took 11 top 10 finishes and finished in the top 2 in 3 times thanks to a big breakaway effort.
Riders like Alexander Kristoff, who will once again target the sprint stage through veteran and 4-time stage winner, will seek opportunities elsewhere.
"The team got a lot of attention last year at the Tour de France and achieved 11 top ten finishes. We are now gathering a team that we believe can take another step up from last year," said Thor Hushovd, the team's General Manager at Team Release
"Our focus in team selection is on lead-out skills, climbing skills, general riding skills and more." The goal was to find a good combination of strength and strength. The riders we have chosen complement each other very well and I'm sure they will be able to mark on several stages throughout the race."
Uno-X Mobility is approaching the tour in a rich vein of form after doubling their winning tally in the season from five to ten in May. The new contract in 2024 also took the team to new heights, with the first World Tour victory in a powerful uphill sprint ahead of Primo Logric (Bora Hansgrohe) in Stage 2 of the Critérium du Dauphine.
Prior to this, Christophe and Abrahamsen won the Heylen Vastgoed Heistse Pijl and Brussels Cycling Classic respectively, and Wærenskjold won the stage and overall victory on the Baloise Belgium Tour.
Abrahamsen, Tiller, Cort and Wærenskjold will make up the core of Christophe's lead-out train, with the climb led by Johannessen.
Johannesen was the most impressive rider in the mountain in the 2023 race, with 10 top 4 finishes, 1 of which was second only to Tadej Pogañar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike) in Stage 6, 3rd place after Cauterets-Cambasque. It was.
The former Tour de la Venir winner wears the red jersey of Kulset and Eiking, the leader of the Vuelta a Espana, a 20・year・old climbing talent.
"The sports results of the spring season show that Uno-X Mobility belongs to the largest stage of cycling. We really look forward to following this year's Tour de France," said Ole Robert Reitan, CEO and co-owner of Reitan Retail, where Uno-X Mobility Cycling is in attendance.
"The goal is definitely to be at the top of the podium in at least 1 stage of this year's Tour de France.”
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