When Domenico Pozzovivo stepped up to WorldTour level with AG2R-La Mondiale in 2013 after almost a decade in the court of Bruno Reverberi at Panaria and Colnago, one of the prime attractions was the prospect of making a belated Tour de France debut.
The wait was to continue a little longer. In his first three years at the team, Pozzovivo’s Julys remained low-key, with manager Vincent Lavenu preferring to send him to the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España instead of the Tour.
In 2016, however, Pozzovivo will finally sample La Grande Boucle. The Italian will, as ever, line out at the Giro in May, as co-leader with Jean-Christophe Péraud, before racing alongside Romain Bardet in France in July.
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“The decision has been made based on the routes of both the Giro and the Tour,” Pozzovivo told Cyclingnews at the Tour of Oman. “This year the Giro is slightly less demanding than in recent seasons, especially in the first part. So it might be possible to come there a little short of top condition and build up through the first week.
“As for the Tour, it will depend a bit on how I recover from the Giro, and I’ll decide based on that whether to go there for stage wins or for a high place on GC.”
Bardet – sixth at the 2014 Tour and a pugnacious ninth last year – has already been anointed as AG2R’s outright team leader, with the target of a top five finish in Paris, but Pozzovivo suggested that he, too, will enjoy a degree of latitude to seek results of his own at the race.
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