Paris-Roubaix 2025, Visma-Lease a Bike trusts Van Aert: "It's his ideal race"

Rome, 8 April 2025 - Almost a week ago, on the occasion of the Dwars door Vlaanderen 2025, the 'sporting suicide' of the Visma-Lease a Bike, betrayed by a wrong tactic of the flagship and by the not so brilliant legs of Wout van aert, which in the next Giro delle Fiandre 2025 would have arrived fourth, showing a physical condition in clear improvement. All this has been confirmed by the very high plans of the Dutch team, which is hopefully approaching the Paris-Roubaix 2025 scheduled Sunday April 13.  

Heijboer's statements

  The spokesman of the message, to the microphones of CyclingFlits, Was Mathieu Heijboer, Director of Performance of the Visma-Lease a Bike. "It seemed that in the end Wout was going better and better and it's an aspect we've worked hard on in the past months: it's nice to see that our work is bearing fruit. The hope is that it continues like this in view of next Sunday". The hope is obviously linked to the imminent Paris-Roubaix 2025. "We still have some days to improve his form in what is the classical which perhaps suits him best and he has shown it throughout his career. Last Sunday, despite being very good, we saw the difficulties he always experiences at Tour of Flanders: next Sunday everything could improve". Not only the optimism also dictated by the historian who in the last two participations of the Belgian in theHell of the North, dated 2022 e 2023, sees a second and third place on the scoresheet: the confidence of Heijboer has its roots in the recent growth of Van Aert after a rather disappointing start to the season. "It fell short of our expectations only in the E3 Sax Classic, but then we never had any doubts about him. There was talk of having him do the Ghent-Wevelgem, but we preferred to stick to the initial plans, letting him rest based on the excellent reasons we had in this regard. Then he trained a lot, confirming his tendency to improve more and more".

Vuelta 2025 wild cards

  In the meantime, only one thing was missing Great Tour to announce their wild cards for the 2025, influenced by the new allocation rules introduced by theUCI. The teams Professional who have the right to access thanks to last season's ranking are the usual ones, Israel-PremierTech e Lotto Cycling Team, to which we can add the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, the Burgos-Burpellet-BH , Caja Rural-Insurance RGA. Nothing to be done instead (not without some controversy) for theKern Pharma Equipment, In which 2024 he shone by conquering well 3 hits (2 and Pablo Castrillo, today at Movistar Team, and 1 and Urko Berrade, instead still present in the Spanish team).

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