Early season programme of Nairo Quintana, Warren Barguil and Nacer Bouhanni
The early season programme of our three leaders is revealed here.
Programme of Nairo Quintana
Analysis by Yvon Ledanois, Directeur-Sportif: “Nairo will start the 2022 season with a “classic” programme that worked perfectly for him two seasons ago when he joined the Arkéa-Samsic team. He has a reference point for his training with a sporting year that will start with the Tour de la Provence. He will then ride the Tour of the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var, then the Faun Ardèche, before Paris-Nice. The highlights of his season will be Paris-Nice and the Tour of Catalunya, a programme that was planned two years ago but that couldn’t be realized because of the pandemic“.
Tour de la Provence (10 to 13 February), France
Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var (18 to 20 February), France
Faun Ardèche (26 February), France
Paris-Nice (6 to 13 March), France
Vuelta Ciclista a Catalunya (21 to 27 March), Spain
Warren Barguil’s programme
Analysis of Yvon Caër, Directeur-Sportif: “Warren will start the 2022 season with the Trofeo de Mallorca and will then race the Vuelta de Murcia and the Volta Ao Algarve in Portugal, where he will be designated leader, and then he will come back to a classic weekend for him, consisting of the Faun Ardèche and the Classic de Drôme. He will then compete in the Strade Bianche, which he did well in 2014, with a nice 8th place in Siena. Warren, because of his participation in the Strade, will start the season with an Italian block with a participation in Tirreno-Adriatico, followed by Milan-Turin, a one-day race that is often reserved for climbers-puncturers“.
Trofeo Mallorca (26 to 30 January), Spain
Vuelta Ciclista a la Region de Murcia (12 February), Spain
Volta Ao Algarve (16 to 20 February), Portugal
Faun Ardèche (26 February), France
Classic de la Drôme (27 February), France
Strade Bianche (5 March), Italy
Tirreno-Adriatico (7 to 13 March), Italy
Milan-Turin (16 March), Italy
Nacer Bouhanni’s programme
Analysis of Sébastien Hinault, Directeur-Sportif: “The return of the Saudi Tour to the 2022 calendar allows us to enter a team with Nacer, who in 2020 opened his victory account under our colours on the occasion of this event. The change of programme for him this year is due to the fact that he will compete in Tirreno-Adriatico which will be a different approach for him from Milan-San-Remo which as everyone knows remains one of his big objectives“.
Saudi Tour (1-5 February), Saudi Arabia
Clasica de Almeiria (13 February), Spain
Classic Drôme (27 February), France
Tirreno-Adriatico (7 to 13 March), Italy
Milan-San Remo (19 March), Italy