PREVIEW | Grand Prix Criqiuelion 2025 - Can Elia Viviani win his first race with Lotto?
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On the 8th of March the peloton's eyes will mostly be at Strade Bianche, however back in Belgium competition won't stop. We've got the Grand Prix Criquielion, another race where classics specialists and sprinters will all have an opportunity to take an important win. We preview the race ahead.
The race, as most around Belgium during this period, features a significant amount of cobbled sectors. It's a race where sprinters and classics riders of all sorts can succeed as an initial five lap circuit will warm things up, but the final two-lap loop around Lessines will feature two small ascents and a cobbled sector right before the finish at the end of 202 kilometers.
Prediction Grand Prix Criquielion 2025:
*** Milan Fretin, Simon Dehairs, Matteo Malucelli
** Gerben Thijssen, Pavel Bittner, Luza Mozzato, Erlend Blikra
* Milan Menten, Elia Viviani, Arne Marit, Gleb Syritsa, Aaron Gate, Jon Aberaturi, Oded Kogut, Hugo Hofstetter, Giacomo Nizzolo, Matteo Moschetti, Lukas Kubis, Francesco Galván, Daniel Babor
Pick: Milan Fretin
How: Regular bunch sprint.
Original: Rúben Silva
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- So, in the end Martin got real time on the line and actually drop a place in the GC. the spirit of the 3km rule is to save riders that are afected by crashes or mechanicals when these events are not their fault. Some cases where the rider is to "blame" are, for pragmatical reasons, i guess, also covered by the rule. But when you are on the attack in a rolling terrain and you crash, alone, it doesn't make much sense to apply the rule, even if you are in the last km. It's completely different from the situation where there's a big crash in the bunch in the last kms and you get stuck behind fallen riders, for example.heinz13-04-2025
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- Agreed. World champ and defending P-R champ shouldn’t be Wiebes super-domestique.mobk13-04-2025
- Shameful, hope they feel the full force of the lawcxfan2513-04-2025
- Have the Gendarmes identified and arrested this scumbag!!slappers6613-04-2025
- That was a fantastic Paris Roubaix to watch! Mathieu and Tadej were very evenly matched, and in the end it came down to bike handling skills , and not too many can handle a bike quite like Mathieu can. Of course, he probably has every corner and every cobbled section of that route completely memorized by now! Big respect to Tadej for that massive effort, and for digging very deep when it surely looked as if he were bonking.
santiagobenites13-04-2025 - You was awesome Tadej, as usual... a super megachampion, unique! the Tour de France champion, second in his Paris-Roubaix debut... TaEDDy Pogacar!
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