2 Grand Tours, Tour of Flanders, Ardennes and plenty stage-races - Lennert van Eetvelt takes on 'Pogacar calendar' for ambitious 2025
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Lennert van Eetvelt has developed a new generation of young Belgian talents that are nowadays leading it from top to bottom. Besides the likes of De Lie and Segaert, the 2025 season will see it's top climber Lennert van Eetvelt shoot his shot in gravel, cobbled classics, Ardennes, multiple stage-races and a whole two more Grand Tours!
At the Lotto camp, many news begin to emerge over the calendar of it's leaders now that we enter January. Van Eetvelt, winner of the UAE Tour and Tour of Guangxi this past year, has deeply impressed, taking a few more wins over the year and almost beating Primoz Roglic at the first summit of the 2024 La Vuelta. The team know of his versatility, and the two have agreed on a schedule not too different from Tadej Pogacar in the sense that he will be aiming for results in just about all kinds of races.
According to Wielerflits the Belgian will wait until later to start off his 2025 season, but this will be at the UAE Tour where he will pin the number 1 on his back, but will have to face the World Champion himself. Right after concluding the stage-race he will travel to Europe where he will race the cobbled Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and then one week later Strade Bianche.
Van Eetvelt will neither race Paris-Nice or Tirreno-Adriatico, but instead the Volta a Catalunya with more mountainous and explosive stages that suit him. But this will actually be his final stage-race of the season, as after Catalunya he will head 'raw' into the Tour of Flanders right away - without competing in any of the traditional preparation races. After Flanders he takes some rest, skips Amstel Gold Race, and races both Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
After this he will take a big resting period and begin preparation for this Tour de France debut where according to the Dutch news outlet he will be looking to take a stage win and gain experience in a race he may aim for in the future. After this, he will race the Vuelta a España in an attempt to go for the overall classification this time around.
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- His last important race before the Tour is P-R and his next important race after is CX WC 2026 since he has no chance at the WCRR So unless he really goes into MTB this season, there's really no reason to skip a TdF and compete for a few stages and yellow jersey at the beginningvappaxbipmv06-01-2025
- How I can say that? Let’s look at the spirit of it and put it into context. Firstly, we are all cycling fans, we have been for a while, we’ve almost all been here a while too so have absorbed some feeling for each commentators style. For those of you who might not understand, I post with the assumption, we all know enough background not to have to explain every thought with 3 paragraphs of background to justify a statement. I also don’t waste my time repeating mundanity, I try to bring a more original angle or stone to any discussion that creates a more complete picture of the whole story (often not told). So, as far as I see, and I’ve said it before, MVDP is kind of unique in racing just about 12 months a year. He races to win, ie, he also trains for that, ie he has to train to peak more than a dozen times a year as opposed to typical road racers (including Jonas, Remco* and to a lesser extent WVA and Pog) who try to peak 1-around 3, 4 max half a dozen x a year). Obviously, training for a three week race and doing it is going to put a dent in results before and after and maybe even as far as the “off-season” (when he is at his most active winning xc week after week after week for years. Do you see my point a bit better now?Mistermaumau06-01-2025
- Sorry, maybe you thought I meant on TV? Obviously, most of the big fans in Belgium watching these two would take the opportunity to go watch live. I was once unlucky the TdF passed right near my house (when I lived in the south of France) it was over in 30 seconds, all 180 riders.Mistermaumau06-01-2025
- How can you say that, last season he had 7! race days before the Tour, that's neither a lot nor oftenvappaxbipmv06-01-2025
- It would be interesting to see if he could go for a green jersey onetime. Considering his penchant for winning everything possible, I’m surprised he doesn’t try this once.mij06-01-2025
- I am disappointed that we ever give Broyneel a public platform again. Boonen is a former star, and why should Bruyneel’s disgraced opinion ever matter, let alone be published. Bruyneel has forever disgraced by the Cycling profession, and never deserves a public platform again. He is entitled to his personal opinion on talented cyclists, but those opinions should never be published or printed. We need to forget him in the professional sport of cycling. As a cyclist and father, I never want my children to even know about him, unless it’s how he orchestrated a cheating doping program.GMG06-01-2025
- It seems like every 3 years a new French kid pops up as the wonderkid, the savior to finally redeem France in their own race, including Bardet, Pinot, Rolland, Barguil, Gaudu, Martin, but it never quite materializes. I hope Seixas is finally the guy. I'm not a Frenchman, but I'd be happy to see them do it for once. If it should happen, how do you think France would celebrate?Ride197406-01-2025
- oh, crap, maybe i’m OBSESSIVE! i’ll have to spend some time thinking about that, over and over, as if it were a looped tape, playing in over and over and over in my head, forever…OCexile05-01-2025
- A far more interesting article would have been Patrick complaining of MVDP being as or more popular than Remco ;-) but it may be too late now, I get the feeling the tables turned after the summer.Mistermaumau05-01-2025
- I’d like to see him trying some more 1 week hilly stage races, think that might be a more interesting challenge for him. I get it for the TdF, it’s not because it’s the biggest race that everyone has to go for or like it, like many things in life. And when you race as much and as often as him, there’s sound logic to avoiding 3 weeks of musical chairs.Mistermaumau05-01-2025