Former Tour de France runner-up Romain Bardet will race the Giro d’Italia for the first time in May, his team DSM confirmed on Wednesday.

The 30-year-old Frenchman will line up alongside new teammate in Australian Jai Hindley, who came a narrow second on the 2020 Giro.

Bardet came second on the Tour in 2016 and was third a year later and has raced the last nine ‘Grand Boucles’.

 

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