Tour de France 2025, Milan is already charged: "I dream of the yellow jersey"

Rome, 22 January 2025 - For an Italian the Line of Business is the Line of Business, but when your team diverts you to Tour de France However, we must see the glass half full in light of the prestige of the competition: just as it is doing jonathan milan, chosen by Lidl Trek to be at the Great Boucle, XNUMX Mads pedersen which will instead be on stage at Corsa pink and in turn not very willingly.

Milan's statements

Intercepted by the microphones of Cycling News, the Friulian confessed his feelings regarding what will be the most important stage: even more so when the first stage, that of Lille, will put on the table a yellow jersey to be conquered through a sprint. "We will have a good opportunity right from the start and we will have to be ready immediately as if it were a World. For us, the goal will be first and foremost that, the first stage, which we really want. But the whole race is important and it is a challenge that we want to experience. I can't wait for that moment to arrive. Obviously I have very big ambitions, but at the same time I don't want to put too much pressure on myself. For this reason, I am facing the situation thinking about one day at a time, trying to concentrate on arriving at that appointment in the best possible shape". In a cycling that is more attentive to watts than to anything else, despite an aesthetic style that is not very beautiful to look at, Milan and its engine power seem to wallow at their best. "My peak is around 1960-1965 watts, but honestly I don't care. Then of course, when you're there you start to think about it and if you see someone who's doing more than you then you try to stay on his wheel to exploit his power before trying to overtake him".

Skjelmose's statements

 Staying at home Lidl Trek, but completely changing specialty, the Giro d'Italia it would have been tempting even to Mattias Skjelmose, chosen instead for the Tour de France. The unexpected twist, especially from a runner who a few years ago declared, without mincing words and with particular delicacy, his preference for the Great Boucle, was served by the statements released by the 2000-born rider to the microphones of Danish TV. "I had a strange conversation with the team, because I wanted to run the Giro d'Italia but they insisted on sending me to Tour de France. After Return, I saw that the Corsa pink it was the most natural step to develop myself as a general classification rider and honestly I don't think I'm ready for it yet Great Boucle and to do well there. That's why I thought that the Giro d'Italia was the best place for me to grow further than I already have."