Tour of Flanders 2025, Bettiol will not be there. The reasons

Rome, 3 April 2025 - For a Filippo Gana who is eagerly hunting for the seal that can be worth an entire career, theItaly in view of the Giro delle Fiandre 2025 loses a potential protagonist, as well as a past winner, as Alberto Bettiol, forced to give up the appointment of Sunday April 6 due to a lung infection.  

Bettiol's conditions and recovery times

  The surprise winner of the edition of 2019 will have to stop and undergo a cycle of antibiotic treatment that risks taking its toll even in the long term: the prophylaxis will last at least 9 days, in order to defeat the ongoing bacterial infection (Chlamydia). At this point, the next goal of Bettiol will directly become the Giro d'Italia 2025: the time to recover within the 9st May there is, but a start as challenging as that of Durres and in general of the whole adventure in Albania will immediately require optimal condition, with the aim of honouring the tricolour jersey as best as possible, which was absent on Sunday. At this point, the hierarchies at home also change XDS Astana Team. While waiting for the final startlist, he could move up in the Kazakh formation David Ballerini, which as a business card presents the good sixth place remedied the recent Ghent-Wevelgem 2025, the first taste on Flemish soil: the Tuscan's place has been officially taken by the expert Cees Bol, but it could also be the one to kick Mike Teunissen, returning from the11esimo place to the Milan-Sanremo 2025.

Matthews' statements

  Who will not miss the Tour of Flanders è Michael Matthews, than in the second Monument of the year as the best result can be counted as sixth place collected in 2019. Although a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, the Australian is confident of a prestigious result in Sunday's race. "The Tour of Flanders It's a race that I love, that I would like to win and that I believe I can do. Last year was a tough pill to swallow because of what happened in the final sprint, but I'm back and I'm in great shape again: I hope to be a protagonist again in the final, and this time to be able to win. Of course, like all races it will be tough but I trust in myself and in the strong team that we will field". A year ago Matthews concluded only 11esimo, a result that evidently did not satisfy him due to the great leg he showed off: this year his Team Jayco AlUla and its new purple livery will try to support their captain first of all with the experience of elements such as Max Walscheid e Jasha Sutterlin, two of the best gregarious in the group, but also with youngsters on the launch pad like Kelland O'Brien e Robert Donaldson, in addition to the other gregarious Elmar Reinders e Jelte Krijnsen.

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