{"id":688883,"date":"2026-01-11T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:24:11","slug":"fdj-reveals-plans-for-2026-an-unexpected-new-signing-to-lead-the-giro-ditalia-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688883\/","title":{"rendered":"FDJ reveals plans for 2026: An unexpected new signing to lead the Giro d’Italia charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gr\u00e9goire will also line up at the Tour de France<\/a>, where leadership responsibilities will be shared between David Gaudu and Guillaume Martin. Martin has additionally been announced for the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a at the end of the season.With the spring and the Tour de France<\/a> dominating the team\u2019s focus, the Giro d\u2019Italia will play a more secondary role. The squad will primarily target stage wins, while Cl\u00e9ment Berthet<\/a> will be given the opportunity to test himself in the general classification. A top-10 finish will be the main objective for the French rider, who has never hunted the GC of a Grand Tour so far.It will be his first appearance at the Giro d’Italia, after riding the Tour de France<\/a> in 2023 (25th) and 2025 (36th). He also rode a Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in 2024, where he finished 20th.He will make his debut with his new squad, after leaving Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team<\/a>, at the Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda on February 15, followed by the Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda from February 18 to 22, where he is already expected to fight for a solid GC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e9goire will also line up at the Tour de France, where leadership responsibilities will be shared between David…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[208085,4230,181809,207841,79,20680,10104,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-688883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-clement-berthet","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-decathlon-ag2r-la-mondiale-team","11":"tag-romain-gregoire","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tour-de-france","14":"tag-tour-of-flanders","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115876453572055174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}