Tom Pidcock and Julian Alaphilippe at the Tour of Flanders? Belgian monument invites teams of big contenders
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The Tour of Flanders organizers have revealed their wildcards for the 2025 race and amongst these are teams that host some of the big favourites for the race. We learn that the likes of Tom Pidcock and Julian Alaphilippe will certainly be present after their teams were confirmed.
With automatic wildcards we already had the teams of Israel - Premier Tech, Lotto and Uno-X Mobility. Lotto mainly is a team that will enter with big weapons in search of a strong result in riders such as Arnaud De Lie and Lennert van Eetvelt. Uno-X has former winner Alexander Kristoff but also Rasmus Tiller and Jonas Abrahamsen who can well fight for a Top10 result in the race.
Wagner Bazin WB and Team Flanders - Baloise are present as Belgium's ProTeams and the remaining two wildcards have been awarded to Tom Pidcock's Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team and also Julian Alaphilippe's Tudor Pro Cycling Team, two riders who have previously said that they would like to aim for the Flandrien classic.
Wildcards for men's 2025 Tour of Flanders:
Israel - Premier Tech
Lotto
Uno-X Mobility
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
Team Flanders - Baloise
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
Wagner Bazin WB
Wildcards for women's 2025 Tour of Flanders:
EF Education - Oatly
VolkerWessels Cycling Team
Cofidis Women Team
St Michel - PREFERENCE HOME - Auber93
Cynisca Cycling
Bepink - Imatra - Bongioanni
DD Group Pro Cycling Team
Lotto Ladies
Team Coop - Repsol
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These men elite teams will take on Flanders' hills and cobbles on April 6. 💪 #RVV25 #FLCS pic.twitter.com/b0C40g0eEE
— Ronde van Vlaanderen (@RondeVlaanderen) February 5, 2025
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- Funny that they shorten women’s races but have no qualms about letting U23 do the same distances.Jumpyjohn23-03-2025
- Why is that relevant when discussing speed?Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- But he wasn’t the only one ;-)Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- Obviously the questions are more important to some here than to them or the team so I suggest looking for answers instead of asking questions between ourselves. We’ll probably get them unless someone actually goes to ask the protagonists themselves. Here are some starters : They like riding together; they have their own rivalry that helps bring out the best in both; they might get more points helping each other compared to racing separate races. In any case, unless we hear MJ complaining about it, I don’t think it’s going to change, it’s the Sepp Kuss syndrome all over again, fans lobbying against the will of the rider.Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- Mine goes to MVDP for entertaining us all year round :-) Stellar race, Ganna impressive in his own way as many predicted after some oddly lacklustre times.Mistermaumau23-03-2025
- i remember when not too long ago mathieu was regarded as a real tactical knucklehead. i’m not sure that was ever quite accurate, but it’s certainly the case that over the years he has become a real master tactician. in the biggest races, van der poel rarely makes choices that don’t fully optimize every specific advantage he has.OCexile23-03-2025
- Whatever the result, I believe the strategy by UAE to launch Pogacar was absolutely the right one. Unfortunately, they just were not able to execute it the way they must have planned, being all over the place at the start of the Cipressa.Cooldude23-03-2025
- They are without doubt not just the best two classics riders of this generation, but amongst the best of all time. MvdP is more suited to MSR and PR (which Pog has yet to race), while Pog is now almost untouchable at LBL and Lombardia. RVV is the only one where both basically have an equal chance to win.Cooldude23-03-2025
- bravissima!
maria2024202423-03-2025 - According to Tadej's Strava upload, he went up the Cipressa at an average speed of 37.6kph. Rocket ship! He did the 5.63km verified 'Cipressa' Strava segment in 8:59 minutes, which has a 4.3% average grade and total elevation gain of 229m. Naturally, he got the Strava KOM.Pogboom23-03-2025