2️⃣5️⃣ équipes nationales composeront le peloton du 60ème Tour de l’Avenir 👇🏻 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇰🇨🇭🇬🇧🇳🇱🇵🇱🇮🇹🇵🇹🇨🇴🇪🇸🇨🇿🌈🔵🇩🇪🇸🇮🇦🇺🇺🇸🇪🇨🇲🇽🇨🇦🇸🇪🇮🇱🇦🇹🇱🇺 Avec le soutien @LeTour 💛 et @UCI_cycling 🌈 #TDAV #TourdelAvenir ✨
Bad luck strikes again for Visma | LaB: No Tour de l'Avenir for Nordhagen...
CyclingTuesday, 30 July 2024 at 11:40
In the upcoming Tour de l'Avenir, also known as the Tour de France for U23, don't look for Jorgen Nordhagen or other Norwegians. According to the list the organization sent out Monday, the Scandinavian country is remarkably enough not sending a team for the major race for talented cyclists.
France, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, Australia, United States, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada, Sweden, Israel, Austria and Luxembourg all send a selection to the Tour de l'Avenir, but not the Norwegian team that has been so successful in recent years.
Of the last four editions, two eventually went to the Norwegian delegation. Tobias Foss won the race in 2019, and Tobias Halland Johannessen in 2021. In addition, current pros like Soren Waerenskjold (2021 and 2022) and Anders Halland Johannessen (2021) booked stage wins in the race, while current Visma | Lease a Bike pros Johannes Staune-Mittet (second in 2022) and Per Strand Hagenes also rode the race.
Missed opportunity for future Visma pro Nordhagen
Even the current generation of Norwegians had certainly not performed badly at the Tour de l'Avenir. Nordhagen, who will move to the pro branch of Visma | Lease a Bike next year, would have been one of the favorites for the final classification. In addition, with riders such as Embred Svestad-Barseng (from the Arkéa - B&B Hotels training team, 11th in the Tour of Slovakia), Jonas Kind Hoydahl, and Storm Ingebrigsten, there is still plenty of talent.
Nordhagen recently won a stage in the Tour Alsace and finished third in the overall classification. He also achieved that ranking in Liège-Bastogne-Liège this year.
At the time of writing, it is unclear why the Norwegian delegation will not travel to this year's Tour de l'Avenir. Belgian Jarno Widar is considered the top favorite for the overall victory, having won the Giro Next Gen, Alpes Isere Tour, and Giro Valle Aosta.
Il Lombardia 2024
Want to advertize on IDLProCycling.com? We’re already planning for the 2025 season
"The accident could not have been prevented, but what happened next certainly could": organizers work on GPS after Furrer's death
Meanwhile in the peloton | Bowling and playing soccer at Manchester United: INEOS Grenadiers shares nice footage
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL under review: Mistake with Jakobsen, but few teams with more potential
Wiggins sees huge financial setback doubled to nearly 2.5 million euros (!)
Latest Cycling News
Want to advertize on IDLProCycling.com? We’re already planning for the 2025 season
"The accident could not have been prevented, but what happened next certainly could": organizers work on GPS after Furrer's death
Meanwhile in the peloton | Bowling and playing soccer at Manchester United: INEOS Grenadiers shares nice footage
Team dsm-firmenich PostNL under review: Mistake with Jakobsen, but few teams with more potential
Wiggins sees huge financial setback doubled to nearly 2.5 million euros (!)
Popular Cycling News
November vacation month: Van der Poel receives wonderful card, Philipsen and Bernal enjoy, Evenepoel goes for a run
Bakelants notices remarkable trend in transfers: "Van Aert, Pogacar, Van der Poel: they all did that"
Vingegaard responds cryptically to rumors: "I read somewhere that I might have to ride the Giro"
Meanwhile in the peloton | Bowling and playing soccer at Manchester United: INEOS Grenadiers shares nice footage
Visma | Lease a Bike realizes that with Milan Vader a story comes to its end: "For a moment we feared for your life"
Latest Comments
- Van Aert is really handsome. He can influence me all day! Ditto for Philipsen. Why do you think many of us love cycling?: to see heroic attempts at climbing mountains at high altitudes or to watch speedsters sprint for the finish line or to watch a human being ride at break neck speed down a tricky descent? No, it's all about their lean physiques and muscular legs. (apologies for objectifying these dedicated and amazing athletes).BarwonHeadsUp25-10-2024
- It is unfortunate that the author can't feel the joy that Pogacar brings to the sport and his fans who are legion and I for one feel lucky to have watched such a memorable performance and historic season From the Strada until yesterday with multiple wins in stages in both tours and beyond dominance in the World's. He is proud to wear the Rainbow stripes, shows his leadership to protect his fellows and is as courteous and sportsman-like as the sport allows. He goes early to not have to respond to each attack as all the rest would make him do it. Any racer who could would do the same. Don't "grow tired" of greatness as it is always fleeting.ccrider13-10-2024
- What load of rubbish. Pog is likely a once in a generation cyclist, the like of which hasn't been seen since 'the Cannibal '. How many people were complaining that Merckx was making racing predictable? I remember this year's World RR as one of the most exciting I've watched. Mainly BECAUSE Pog was the favourite and launched what everyone thought (Pog included) was a suicidal attack with 80km to go. For the next 2 hours, I was on the edge of my seat thinking "this is too much, even for Pog". Maybe Zonnefeld prefers the snooze-fest that is a bunch sprint? Like most people I know, I can't watch two hours of the bunch riding very fast... I wait for the final 5km and watch just the sprint. In any event, most races are won from a sprint or lone break. What difference does it make who makes the lone break? Ultimately, the other contenders will have to figure out a way to beat Pog. Even if that means collaboration between teams. It's going to be an exciting few seasons, until the next Pog arrives on the scene. If this is boring, heaven knows what exciting looks like!Michael513-10-2024
- This is not a gravel race. UCI fail, from the surface they are on to team tactics. In what country was the first "gravel race" in what country is the most popular gravel race? Go with the race model that created the discipline.
Barnes127411-10-2024 - And don't forget he has now won 4 of the big 10 races (Grand tours, Monuments and WC/OG) in one year with a chance to make that 5. (5 has only been done once before)Joostmehrtens05-10-2024