Have a look at the race schedules for our Belgian sprinters @MerlierTim and @JasperPhilipsen in the coming weeks 🇧🇪🚀 Which of these races are you going to watch? 📺👀
Early-season calendar announced for Tim Merlier and Jasper Philipsen
CyclingSaturday, 12 February 2022 at 09:00
After 2021's success, Alpecin - Fenix are aiming for another strong season and with Mathieu van der Poel for the moment sidelined, both Tim Merlier and Jasper Philipsen will continue having a separate calendar in order to target sprints in multiple races.
Tim Merlier, winner of Giro d'Italia and Tour de France sprints last year, will be doing Tirreno-Adriatico where he won his first World Tour race back in 2020, and before that he'll have a stint in Belgium where he will be defending his Le Samyn title, and Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne. He will be making his season debut next week at the Volta ao Algarve where he should be face-to-face with the likes of Fabio Jakobsen, Mads Pedersen and Pascal Ackermann in the sprints.
Like last year, the two sprinters have very different calendar, and 23-year old Jasper Philipsen will be heading to the UAE Tour and Paris-Nice in the coming weeks. In 2021 he has done both of them but without getting the success he has hoped for in his first months with Alpecin - Fenix, however in the meantime he has gathered nine wins which include the heavily disputed Scheldeprijs, aswell as Eschborn-Frankfurt and two stages at the Vuelta a España, adding to a total of six podium finishes at the Tour de France.
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- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024