Lotto-Dstny may once more decide out of collaborating within the Giro d’Italia in 2024, placing a larger give attention to one-day races throughout Might to attain very important UCI rating factors and the Tour de France in response to Het Nieuwsblad.
The Belgian ProTeam’s race technique for 2024 may additionally see Arnaud De Lie make his Tour de France debut. The 21-year-old sprinter has nonetheless to journey a Grand Tour however received 10 races in 2023, together with the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.
Lotto Dstny had been relegated from the WorldTour to biking’s second division on the finish of 2022 however are decided to return to WorldTour degree in 2026 when the 18 locations are subsequent accessible.
Lotto Dstny opted to skip the Giro this season regardless of being among the many two highest-ranked ProTeams that robotically get wildcard invitations to Grand Excursions. Every WorldTour crew is required to look in any respect three Grand Excursions, however this doesn’t apply to the ProTeams.
Cyclingnews has contacted Lotto Dsnty about their 2024 race calendar. The crew is anticipated to disclose extra about their plans on January 5.
Lotto competed in each Giro d’Italia from 2001-2022 however is as a substitute centered on maximising their factors scoring and return to the WorldTour. De Lie has been their prime factors scorer for the previous two seasons, by practically double the subsequent highest, and will probably be extremely necessary in 2024 if they’re to be promoted again to the highest degree.
Lotto Dstny rode a collection of one-day races in Might 2023 and focused a wider unfold of UCI factors away from the Italian Grand Tour. Throughout the Giro interval, Arnaud De Lie and Florian Vermeersch alone scored 570 UCI factors at races reminiscent of Tro Bro Léon and Boucles de l’Aulne.
De Lie vindicated the choice as he gained extra UCI factors (200) for his win on the 1.professional degree GP de Plumelec-Morbihan than he would have for profitable a Giro stage (180).
Lotto Dsnty completed ninth within the UCI crew rankings for 2023 and so once more secured locations in all of the 2024 WorldTour races, with the choice to overlook any races they need.
With the departure of Ewan again to Jayco AlUla, De Lie will probably be crew chief at Lotto Dstny in 2024, together with his debut on the Tour de France a logical development.
De Lie has himself acknowledged that profitable a giant one-day Basic is extra necessary to him than a Grand Tour stage win, however he will probably be Lotto Dstny’s finest hope of attaining success come the Tour subsequent yr.
The 21-year-old may even hope to make the Belgian Olympics squad for the street race in Paris, which might run extra according to competing on the Tour de France in attempting to hold that kind over the two-week interval that separates the 2 races.