Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome will be competing at the Giro d’ Italia next year, aiming for his only missing victory on one of the major round trips.
The 32-year-old from Team Sky explained this in a short video message at the official race track presentation in Milan on Wednesday.
Should the Briton not be able to participate in the 4. May in Israel starting 101. At the same time, he would have been the reigning winner of all three major round trips. The Frenchman Bernard Hinault was the last person to do so in 1982/1983.
In 2017 Froome had won both the Tour and the Tour of Spain. So far, only six drivers have been successful at least once in all three races. The Great Britain’s goal in 2018, however, remains his fifth victory on the Tour of France.
The Giro will start next year as the first of the major national tours outside Europe. Outside Italy, the three-week race has already started twelve times, most recently in the Netherlands in 2016. The three-day tour in the Middle East on 4-4 April will include May 2018 an individual time trial over a good ten kilometres in Jerusalem.
Then follow two flat stages from Haifa to Tel Aviv (167 km) and from Be’ er Sheva to Eilat (226 km). Altogether, the Giro runs over 3546.2 kilometres.