Milan-Sanremo 2025, Van Der Poel will be at the start

Rome, 3 February 2025 - The main objective of the winter season has been achieved, i World Cup cyclocross won yesterday at Liévin, Mathieu van der Poel start thinking about the upcoming road season by setting your sights on the first big goal of the spring: the Milan-Sanremo 2025.

Van Der Poel's statements

Intercepted by the microphones of The Teamand, the Dutchman confirmed his presence next 22 March to the Very classic, already won in 2023. "I will run a campaign of Classics very similar to those of the last few years and I will have more or less the same goals. The only difference is that I will do one of Paris-Nice e Tirreno-Adriatico before being at the Milan-Sanremo, but I still have to choose which race to do". So, the calendar of Van der Poel compared to the past, it thickens with the hope of returning to win the Spring Classic but also to confirm what was collected in the 2024: to be precise Tour of Flanders e Paris-Roubaix.

Fisher-Black's Statements

Then there are those who in their 2025 asks even more like Finn Fisher Black, which to the microphones of Riding He did not hide his future aspirations nor his disappointment with the past, the one at theUAE Team Emirates XRG, rather disappointing compared to expectations: also due to the serious injury that occurred in 2022. "That was a big setback. I was on the right track and was making a lot of progress, but that stop literally took the wind out of my sails. I started from scratch, starting over from the beginning, showing that unfortunately I was not the talent that everyone thought I was. Many people thought I could have won a lot of races straight away, but the reality is that it took me a while to get back to that level. In 2024 it went better, because I managed to win 4 runs".

The New Zealander's new adventure at Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe It didn't start with any particular highlights on Australian soil, but the impression is that in the new team his role is more central than in the past. "In the UAE Team Emirates XRG there is an incredible amount of talent that is always growing. When you are there, you start to adapt to what the team expects from you and you start to believe in it. Often, however, I had to be a gregarious, a role that was not easy for a boy of my age. Furthermore, I was starting to no longer feel the stimulus to win, because there were so many champions in the team that every time one of them won". In short, not the ideal environment for a Fisher Black who now really wants to demonstrate his qualities. "It's strange to leave a top team like UAE Team Emirates XRG and land in another that instead wants to climb the slope, committing itself in every aspect: all this is very exciting for me". Words that will have to be followed by facts. "I have always struggled in long races and with my coach we are trying to improve in this sense. I want to win a race World Tour, maybe in the Ardennes".