Jonas Vingegaard will compete in the Tour de France and the Vuelta in 2025as announced this Tuesday in La Nucía (southeast of Spain), where he is preparing the season with his Visma-Lease bike team.
Another star of the Dutch team, the Belgian Wout Van Aert, will run the Giro and the Tour de Francein addition to two “big spring goals”, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaixwhere he would find his first victory.
Defeated last summer by Tadej Pogacar, Vingegaard wants to “win again” at the Grande Boucle (July 5-27), which he won in 2022 and 2023. «Career is the most important thing to me. The Tour de France is unique», said the Dane.
«I will be looking for a third victory and, above all, I want to start with the best possible preparation and form.», added Vingegaard, second in 2024, “already a victory” after his heavy crash at the Tour of the Basque Country in April.
“It’s worse than most people think,” he insisted. He had seven broken ribs, one broken sternum. I broke my collarbone in three or four pieces. He also broke his finger and punctured both lungs. I spent eight days in intensive care, twelve in total in the hospital. Coming back in time for the Tour de France is a real achievement, something I’m proud of.».
The Dane, who became a father for the second time after the Tour de France, has not competed since the Tour of Poland in August“a long break” that allowed him to “recharge his batteries.”
To prepare for the 2025 edition, will participate in Paris-Nice and the Tour of Catalonia. But will not participate in the Giro d’Italia in May.
As in 2023, he will combine the Tour de France with the Vuelta (August 23-September 14), where he was second two years ago behind his teammate Sepp Kuss. He will also seek “success” there in 2025.
Wout Van Aert, who also suffered two serious accidents in 2024, believes he has “completely recovered and it will not affect me in 2025.».
In 2025, his main goal is “to win the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix». In the Giro and the Tour, your goal is to win the stages, as well as help your leaders in the general classification (Simon Yates in the Giro).
In general, The Visma team is hoping for a better season than 2024“when we had a lot of bad luck with falls and injuries,” said Grischa Niermann, race director.
“The priority is to win the Tour de France again. We still have a lot of work to do to beat Pogacar. We have a good strategy in the two years we have won. “We have to find a way to defeat him.”
Source: La Verdad
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