Tour of Flanders 2025, UAE Team Emirates-XRG: “We are stronger than the falls”

Rome, 7 April 2025 - There is a current of thought according to which Tadej pogacar, like practically all winners, he is also lucky. In fact, the Slovenian's latest successes seem to go in the opposite direction: a slide on the curve at 2025 Roads and almost all of his teammates fell to the ground Giro delle Fiandre 2025. Two setbacks that would have knocked out anyone, but not the world champion, who thus leads to 8 the account of Classical Monument won in his career.  

The statements of Gianetti and Baldato

The day after at home UAE Team Emirates-XRG he is very sweet, as confessed by the sports director Mauro Gianetti to the microphones of The Latest News: this was counterbalanced by a complicated Sunday due to the falls of various Jonathan Narvaez, Tim Wellens e Florian Vermeersch who had reduced the workforce at home to the bone in the Emirati house. "The situation for us became difficult because of the falls. All three ended up on the ground and were important pawns in preparing the attacks of pogacar. We found ourselves in extreme difficulty, but we were good at not panicking". The Slovenian had some left, as commented by the other sports director Fabio Baldato.

"On the radio the guys told me they wanted to follow the original plan even though we had lost two men: those who remained were good at working twice as hard. Mikkel Bjerg he started doing it on the Molenberg and held out until almost the second pass on theOude-Kwaremont. Antonio Morgado e Nils Politt, then, they were fantastic: they broke away, came back and were good at doing another push before finally giving up". In short, from theUAE Team Emirates-XRG, net of the falls and the consequent actual defections, a nice official defense arrives for those who were capable and eligible for enlistment after some more or less veiled criticism had rained down even after the Milan-Sanremo 2025.

The needle of the scale

As often happens in sports, the result becomes the deciding factor: 'only' a third place in the Very classic and an overwhelming victory, that of pogacar, Yesterday. "Tadej he always had the situation under control: he knew he had to get to the second pass on theOude-Kwaremont to then enter the scene in person. His plan - continues Baldato - was to push all his rivals to the limit with constant sprints and attacks. Speaking of Mathieu van der Poel, Milan-Sanremo we saw that a couple of razor strokes were not enough, but going on with ten, eleven and so on, eventually all resistance wears out".

Degenkolb misses Paris-Roubaix 2025

The duel between the two so far has resulted in the classic 1-1 and the ball is in the centre, with the Paris-Roubaix 2025 which could upset the balance, unless some third wheel enters the fight. From the ranks of the outsiders, he leaves the scene John Degenkolb, one of the many riders who fell yesterday and among those who suffered worse consequences in terms of multiple fractures: very bad news for the German expert, who exactly ten years ago had scored the precious double between Milan-Sanremo e Paris-Roubaix, but also for his Team Picnic PostNL, which for quite some time loses a precious pawn in view of salvation in the category World Tour.

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