Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024: favorites, dates and how to watch

After the dispute of the Tour Down Under, the World Tour continues its Australian journey with the dispute, next Sunday, January 28, of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024, a one-day race that ends this first round of races before cycling fully returns to Europe. A test in which the teams, obviously, keep the blocks that participated in the Down Under.

The World Tour continues with the dispute of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024

Geelong, an Australian city located near Melbourne, will once again be the stage for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024, the second test of the World Tour calendar after the dispute, also on Australian soil of the Tour Down Under which, already turned into tradition, kicks off the World Tour. A race that will be held next Sunday, January 28.

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024, unlike the Down Under, is a one-day race that is disputed on a route with hardly any difficulties of 176 kilometers, in which a semi-urban final circuit is included in Geelong itself that cyclists will have to give 4 laps that include the most notable difficulty of the route, the ascent to Challambra, climb of just 1.5 km at 7.9% average slope, something that hardly poses any difficulty for the professional cyclist, so the test usually has a resolution among the fast men.

Favorites to win the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024

Although the definitive participation of this Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024 has not yet been confirmed, the blocks will be mainly composed of the same cyclists who took part in the Tour Down Under which already allows us to guess who should be the protagonists.

We will not include among them the final winner of the Down Under, Stephen Williams because he is a more climber profile cyclist who will not find in Geelong his terrain to give a great performance. However, the first stages of the Tour Down Under did reveal who are the sprinters in better shape.

Thus, the Australian from Bora-Hansgrohe is postulated as the maximum aspirant to victory in this Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024 after adding no less than three stages last week. We cannot rule out other fast men like Caleb Ewan, Biniam Girmay or Elia Viviani who also showed up in the dispute of the sprints during the dispute of the Tour Down Under. A race in which the fashionable team of the peloton, EF Education-EasyPost will bet on Owain Doull as the main loss to achieve a great result.

Where to watch the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024

Again we will have to stay up late next Sunday, January 28 if we want to follow live the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024 which will be broadcast only through the digital platform of Eurosport. Those of you who watch Europort through a television platform, where you only have access to the Eurosport1 and Eurosport2 channels will not be able to watch the race.

The broadcast of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2024 is scheduled between 3 and 6 in the morning.