{"id":7695,"date":"2023-12-15T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.com\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:02:00","slug":"2024-route-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/2024-route-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 route announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group wrap\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Casa \u00c1rabe, in Madrid, hosted this Thursday the <strong>\u0160koda Titan Desert Morocco 2024<\/strong> presentation. An event that has served to announce the route of this year&#8217;s edition of the race, as well as all the sporting and logistical news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation was attended by <strong>Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, Titan World Series CEO; <strong>Joan Massall\u00e9<\/strong>, Sponsorships and Events Manager of \u0160koda Spain; <strong>Manuel Tajada<\/strong>, sports director of the \u0160koda Titan Desert Morocco; and <strong>Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, cyclist of the Astana Qazaqstan team and ambassador of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The route will consist of more than <strong>600 kilometers<\/strong> and about <strong>7,000 meters of accumulated altitude gain<\/strong> over six days. The \u0160koda Titan Desert Morocco 2024 will start in Boumalne Dades on April the 28th and will end at its traditional finish line in Maadid, on May the 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A format similar to the one adopted in 2023, with two very mountainous first stages, close to the <strong>Atlas Mountains<\/strong>. After that, the Titans peloton will move its challenge to the desert, with four long, rolling stages with different challenges each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key features, such as the <strong>\u0160koda Challenge<\/strong> timed section, which rewards 60 seconds bonus to the fastest female and mal riders to complete it; the <strong>marathon stage<\/strong>, in which participants will not have mechanical or physiotherapy help at the end of the stage; or <strong>navigation sections<\/strong> without track or marked course will return one more year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2LA0675-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2LA0675-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2LA0675-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2LA0675-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2LA0675-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2LA0675-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>SPORTING SHOW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year&#8217;s edition was one of the most open and exciting in recent memory, with two first-time winners in Titan World Series races:\u00a0<strong>Roberto Bou and Tessa Kortekaas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will reproduce a formula similar to the one we already did in 2023 because the participants loved that incredible mix of landscapes and terrains,&#8221; explained\u00a0<strong>Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda<\/strong>. &#8220;Obviously, there are always novelties and surprises, unprecedented sectors and\u00a0<strong>new adventures<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll leave that to the titans themselves to discover&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something that will not be new will be the involvement of \u0160koda in the race, which is a fundamental part for years. &#8220;We are associated with the \u0160koda Titan Desert Morocco because there is much that unites us: the\u00a0<strong>love for cycling<\/strong>, the taste for different experiences and that unique way of understanding the sport as a way of life,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Joan Massall\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the sporting level,\u00a0<strong>Manuel Tajada<\/strong>\u00a0has emphasized one of the great novelties of the edition: the\u00a0<strong>time bonus for the winners<\/strong>\u00a0at the finish line. &#8220;We want to give an incentive to the sprints. Every year we have more and more level among the leading men and women, so we have to find ways for strategy to continue to be a differential factor, in the same way that technique or physique on the bike is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of skill, class and victories the Astana Qazaqstan team rider&nbsp;<strong>Luis Le\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>&nbsp;knows a lot. &#8216;Luisle&#8217;, who already knows what it&#8217;s like to take part in the \u0160koda Titan Desert Almer\u00eda and the NEOM Titan Desert Saudi Arabia, will be an ambassador for the race in Morocco. &#8220;This is where this concept was born and it is the most famous and challenging of the three. For me they are being<strong>&nbsp;incredible experiences&nbsp;<\/strong>and I hope I can be there in front giving war also in April, but, above all, enjoying with the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casa \u00c1rabe, in Madrid, hosted this Thursday the \u0160koda Titan Desert Morocco 2024 presentation. An event that has served to announce the route of this year&#8217;s edition of the race, as well as all the sporting and logistical news. The presentation was attended by Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda, Titan World Series CEO; Joan Massall\u00e9, Sponsorships and Events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[43,128,118,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-7695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-course","8":"category-skoda-titan-desert-morocco","9":"tag-course","10":"tag-route","11":"tag-skoda-titan-desert-morocco-2","12":"tag-stages","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7704,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/7704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skodatitandesertmorocco.titanworldseries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}