{"id":403176,"date":"2026-01-11T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:49:08","slug":"fdj-reveals-plans-for-2026-an-unexpected-new-signing-to-lead-the-giro-ditalia-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403176\/","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":403177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,169967,635,129544,169968,82,636,58564],"class_list":["post-403176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clement-berthet","tag-cycling","tag-decathlon-ag2r-la-mondiale-team","tag-romain-gregoire","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-tour-of-flanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}