Vincenzo Nibali has been entrusted with a dream by his new team "Astana Kazakstan" to compete in all five monuments in 2022, including Paris-Roubaix, Velofute and L'Equipe reported.

Nibali told La Gazzetta dello Sport in October: "I have never run Paris-Roubaix. It is certainly a risk and a race you have to prepare in detail, but you have to do it at least once in your life."

The 37-year-old is known for his exceptional bike-handling abilities, and he proved his skills in the 2014 Tour de France with a rainy stage from Ypres to Arenberg, where he excelled on several cobbled sections of Paris-Roubaix.

On the same stage, defending champion Chris Froome retired after several crashes, and Nibali was more than two minutes ahead of Alberto Contador and other contenders for the win. Nibali then went on to win the Tour by more than seven minutes over his closest rivals Jean-Christophe Peraud and Thibaut Pinot.

Returning to Astana colors this season, Nibali rode Paris-Roubaix in support of Gianni Moscon. He was left behind by eventual podium finishers Sonny Colbrelli, Florian Vermeersch, and Mathieu van der Pol.

Nibali said it was important to support Moscon in Paris-Roubaix.

He will also return to the Tour de Flanders, which he has competed in once, finishing 24th in 2018, and will also take on Italian monuments: Milan-San Remo, which he won in 2018; Il Lombardia, which he won twice (2015 and 2017); 14-time and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, where he finished second in 2012.

Nibali's busy season begins in February with Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, followed by Tirreno-Adriatico and then four Monuments. He will then compete in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, followed by the Lombardia later in the season.

The tentative schedule calls for the Tour des Alpes between Paris-Roubaix and Liège, starting one day after Hell in the North and finishing two days before La Doyenne.

At a training camp in Astana in December, Nibali said he wanted to race without announcing the objective beforehand. After two fruitless seasons with Trek-Segafredo, the "Shark of Messina" still wants to win, but admitted that the level of the peloton has risen remarkably since 2020.

"Of course, I have my own goals and there are races where I want to be the protagonist in some way. The competition has really risen to an incredible level in the last two seasons, which makes it more difficult, but it's not for lack of determination."