"From the beginning, I dreamed of reaching the podium of the Tour de France" - Mattias Skjelmose aims for Tour de France podium in 2025
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The 2024 season still seems far away, but Mattias Skjelmose already knows what his program will broadly look like. The Vuelta a España will be one of the Dane's main goals. He said this in Bobby and Jens, the podcast by Jens Voigt and Bobby Julich.
"I want to do a very good Ardennes week, I especially want to improve my result in Liège-Bastogne-Liège," begins Skjelmose, who finished ninth in La Doyenne last year. Shortly before that, he also achieved good results in the Flèche Wallonne (second) and Amstel Gold Race (eighth). "After that I will go all out in the Critérium du Dauphiné and hopefully at the Olympic Games. Then the Vuelta will be a big goal, followed by the World Championships."
Skjelmose made his debut in the Tour de France last season, but will skip the Tour next year. He will return to La Grande Boucle in 2025. "That's why I'm doing the Vuelta this year. Kim came up with the master plan to ride a classification in the Vuelta, so that I have already ridden a classification in a Grand Tour before I put everything on the Tour in 2025."
Skjelmose, however, makes it clear that he will not settle for a minor role. "From the beginning, my coach and I dreamed of reaching the podium of the Tour de France, and that remains the direction I want to go," he said when asked about his ambitions for the coming years.
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Ondřej Zhasil is a cycling journalist at CyclingUpToDate and has been part of the team since 2023. He is based in Ostrava, the third-largest city in the Czech Republic, and covers professional cycling across the main UCI competitions, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España. A key focus of his work is startlist analysis and pre-race coverage, where he examines team selections, rider line-ups, and tactical scenarios ahead of major events.
Alongside WorldTour coverage, Ondřej has developed specific expertise in junior cycling and in racing across East Asia, including competitions in China and Japan. He also maintains a broad working knowledge of other disciplines and levels, including cyclocross, while continuing to expand his understanding of mountain bike racing.
Ondřej holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics, which supports his analytical, data-driven approach to performance and race analysis. In his reporting, he regularly uses ProCyclingStats for results, statistics, and historical context. He places strong emphasis on careful sourcing, editorial accuracy, and updating articles promptly when new, verified information becomes available.
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