Giro d'Italia 2025, Pedersen will be there. Milan at the Tour de France

Rome, 17 January 2025 - Not only men are fighting for the general classification: the strength of the startlist of a Great Tour it can also be seen from the presence of runners from Classics or in any case voted to hunt for stages. In this regard, the yes of Wout van aert  al Giro d'Italia 2025 is added that of Mads pedersen, announced in these hours together with his Lidl Trek, which at the same time hijacked jonathan milan al Tour de France.  

Pedersen's statements

  Reading between the lines of the Danish player's statements to the microphones of Extra Blade one can sense a slight discontent with what was the choice of his education. "I understand it and accept it, because at Tour de France there are more flights and Milan he is a better sprinter than me who will go there to win as many stages as possible. I would have liked to go to the Great Boucle to aim for the green jersey, but I will not go to bed and cry. I understand the team's plans, which are different and which will see me at the Giro d'Italia and the Return". The other side of the coin for Pedersen sees the possibility of bringing home the cyclamen jersey, a mission he has never achieved in his career. On the other side there is Milan, who instead could wear the yellow jersey Lille, for what would be a very heavy seal for a career that took off last year right on the streets of Giro d'Italia: for Friulian 3 stages and the cyclamen jersey, also won in 2023.

Carr's statements

  In a certain sense the Tour de France it also has something to do with the farewell that took place in recent weeks between theEF Education EasyPost e Simon Carr, who in the meantime has settled down at Cofidis and that to the microphones of DirectVelo he tried to explain what happened. "They were happy with me. The situation was good, because they liked having this rider who performed in minor races, bringing points UCI. In a certain sense, it was also comfortable for me, because I was in a great team where I lacked nothing. I had started well there, just as I left well. In the midst of the falls after which I no longer had the confidence to do the important races. In 2024 I was hoping to go to the Tour de France given the results collected in the 2023. But it didn't go that way and so I decided to leave the team". Despite having clear ideas, the British driver hesitated quite a bit before facing this change. "I was happy there and initially I intended to stay, even signing the renewal. Then the Cofidis: I heard from other runners, knowing how bad theirs had been 2024, but I still decided to try something new with the hope of getting good results for me and for them. I feel like a good gregarious in the mountain stages, but when I got to 26 years I want to personally test myself in the most important category races World Tour".

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