Tour of Flanders 2025, Pogacar beams: "Victory despite bad luck"

Oudenaarde (Belgium), 6 April 2025 - When the going gets tough, the tough get going: if the climbs of the Milan-Sanremo maybe they are not grim enough to make a difference by creating the void behind them, the walls of the Tour of Flanders, repeated until exhaustion, are also good for skimming off the resistance of the bogeyman of the reigning winner Mathieu van der Poel, third behind Mads pedersen: in front of everyone, as already happened in 2023, it ends there instead Tadej pogacar, which starts the mission Round on 'Oude-Kwaremont and completes it with the fifth stab, thus raising the count of Monument in the bag to 8.  

Pogacar's statements

  And to think that the day of theUAE Team Emirates-XRG had opened with a brazen, if unsuccessful, attack of theArkea-B&B Hotels during a physiological break for the Slovenian, who would then see most of his gregarious finish on the asphalt: two more reasons to celebrate today's success. "The goal was to win, but believing in it can be difficult. We did it and I can say that I am even more proud of my team and how we rode, despite the bad luck. In the end it went well and I am happy to have won with this jersey on". pogacar then reveals a behind the scenes look at the tactics launched by the Emirati team on the eve of the match and then actually carried out. "The idea was to attack on theOude-Kwaremont and that's what we did despite the previous falls. We never give up and today all the teammates did their best for the success: they were fantastic". From an encore to an absolute debut, with the hope that it will be immediately a winner: in a week pogacar will start the big game hunt Paris-Roubaix, not exactly a race suited to his characteristics, especially physical ones, despite the excellent results recorded in the recent workouts recorded on the platform Strava. "It's a completely different race, but I like challenges and I will try to do my best. The Tour of Flanders It's more suited to me, but you never know: it's still a very tough race and with the form I'm in now I can only try to win."

Ganna's statements

  There is also theItaly of Round, with Filippo Gana e David Ballerini in the top 10, respectively in eighth and tenth place: and yet, for the Piedmontese there is a bit of bitterness, and not only for the outcome of the match. "Today our captain was Magnus Sheffield and our goal was to try to get ahead of the big guys on theOude-Kwaremont. Unfortunately we had a lot of weight in that attempt, and Magnus he fell on the cobblestones. We hope to recover for next week. Today I can say that my legs suffered more than I thought and that I struggled more than I should have". In short, for Top Ganna double disappointment: the realization that they can't keep up with the best on the Flemish walls and the discovery that they aren't even the leaders at home Ineos Grenadiers.

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