Multi world champion and Olympic runner-up, Wout van Aert, unveiled his racing calendar for 2025. A planning in which he will resume what he could not do in 2024 because of the serious fall he suffered in Dwars door Vlaanderen with the Flanders-Roubaix double and his participation in Giro and Tour as key points.
Wout van Aert repeats the plan he had planned for last year, which was ruined by the serious crash he suffered through Flanders just days before his first major objective, and which led him to abandon competing in the Giro d’Italia where he had planned to make his debut.
After ending his cyclo-cross campaign, where there are no changes despite the fans’ longing for a duel in the World Cup between him and Van der Poel after the two convincing victories that the Belgian has left us in this first week of the year, Van Aert sticks to the schedule and, after competing in the Maasmechelen World Cup on January 25, he will focus on road training until his debut in the Clasica de Jaen-Paraiso Interior to be held on February 17.
A first contact that will continue in Volta ao Algarve the following week, both races with a purely preparatory approach to the cobblestones, from the same opening weekend where he will race both Omloop Het Niewsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.
However, after this start of the classics, Wout van Aert will continue to focus on his training, skipping races like Strade Bianche or Milan-San Remo, so we won’t see him again with a bib until the end of the month when the final part of the preparation for the Flanders-Roubaix diptych will take place.
Van Aert will take part in the E3 Saxo Classic, Ghent-Wevelgem and will repeat his participation in the Dwars door Vlaanderen that ended his last season. After Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, he will stretch this first block of the season only until the Amstel Gold Race to retire from competition and concentrate on training for the Giro d’Italia, without any of the previous competitions that usually face those who go to the transalpine round as could be the Tour of the Alps.
After the Giro d’Italia, the same approach will be to focus solely on resting and training until the Tour de France, where he should be one of the mainstays in Jonas Vingegaard’s attempt to regain his throne in the Grande Boucle.
Source: www.brujulabike.com