Giro d'Italia 2025, Van Aert says yes: "I also dream of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix"

Rome, 15 January 2025 - A year ago, bad luck took him out of the start list of the Giro d'Italia: Wout van aert, despite the still present after-effects of that fall which occurred at the beginning of spring at Straight through Flanders, this year will try again to debut at the Corsa pink strong of one Visma-Lease a Bike which will have in Simon yates (and not in jonas vingegaard) its beacon for the general classification.

The statements of Van Aert and Kooij

Even before the Belgian, who reiterated his no to the Cyclocross World Championships (where instead there will be the eternal rival Mathieu van der Poel), will be the protagonist at Classics. "It's going to be a busy year for me. After the Classics in spring I will be at Giro d'Italia, in which I will try to hunt for the stages. Then I will live a period at high altitude before being at the Tour de France to lend a hand to vingegaard to achieve his third victory". Tadej pogacar permitting. Van Aert then goes into the details of the topic Classics. "I will open with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad e Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne but I hope to reach my peak form at Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix, which are circled in red. Despite all the difficulties, the shape I had found last time Return It gives me confidence for the future in Classics". The other card of the Visma-Lease a Bike al Giro d'Italia 2025 for the hunt for the stages, this time with a view to the sprints as well, it will be Olav Kooij, which last May prevailed in Napoli. "That success gave me a lot of confidence, confirming that I have what it takes to compete at the highest levels. In fact, compared to last year I feel stronger, having learned a lot also on a tactical level. In sprints, in fact, it is not always the strongest who wins, but also the one who makes the most correct decisions at the right moments".

Laporte's statements

The Dutchman is right, he is also a man from Classics which, as such, at home Visma-Lease a Bike It has several models: among them Christophe Laporte, who at the microphones de The Team He spoke about present, past and future. "I can't define my 2024 totally negative, having also won an Olympic medal and won the Paris-Tours. I had a meeting with the team to understand what to improve, but bad luck, with several crashes, didn't help me. Obviously we weren't the only ones to end up on the asphalt, but when it's us it makes more noise: certainly in 2025 let's hope things go better". The Frenchman then presents his program. "I will be at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, to Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, to Strade Bianche, to Milan-Sanremo, Classics in Belgium before the Paris-Roubaix and dell 'Amstel Gold RaceThe captain in these races will be FROM Aert, but I will have a freer role that I will try to exploit also for the good of the team. My dream is to win a Monument: maybe just the Paris-Roubaix, with the entrance to the velodrome that is so tempting for everyone".

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