Skjelmose, Carapaz, Bernal, Adam Yates and Jon Izagirre, on the list of candidates to win the Tour of Switzerland
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Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), winner in 2023, Richard Carapaz (EF Education), Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers), Adam Yates (UAE Emirates) and Jon Izagirre (Cofidis) are on the list of main candidates to win the Vuelta to Switzerland in 2024that starts this Sunday, July 9. The 87th edition of the race consists of eight stagesand ends Sunday, July 16; EITB, through ETB1 and eitb.eus, will offer the test live, every afternoon.
The organization of the 2024 Tour of Switzerland has prepared a mountainous route, with plenty of ground for those who aim to fight for the general classification and also for those cyclists looking to fine-tune their set-up for the Tour de France. The Tour of Switzerland is the last WorldTour category test to be held before the start of the Tour, which always makes it very attractive; It is one of the main events on the calendar of each season.
In addition to those already mentioned, other runners with the possibility of having a good race are Enric Mas (Movistar), Tom Pidcock (INEOS), Joao Almeida (UAE), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Sergio Higuita (BORA-Hansgrohe), Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma Lease a Bike) and Lenny Martínez (Groupama). In sprints, the forecast is that they will dominate Mark Cavendish (Astana), Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny), and Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla).
In addition to Jon Izagirre, Basque cycling will have the strengths of Óscar Rodríguez (INEOS) and Xabier Mikel Azparren (Q36.5).
There will be five high-altitude finishes, and two time trial stages; The first of them will take place in the initial stage, on Sunday the 9th, over five kilometers, in Vaduz.
As has been said, EITB, through ETB1 and eitb.eus, will offer all stages from the 2024 Tour of Switzerland, live. The broadcast will begin, every afternoon, at 3:15 p.m.except for that of the first stage, and that of the Friday June 14, day on which the sixth stage will be held; on Sunday the 9th, it will start at 4:00 p.m., after the Critérium Dauphiné, and on Friday the broadcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. on eitb.eus and on ETB4, and, on television, it will move to ETB1 around 3:15 p.m.
Source: Eitb
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