Participants Tour Down Under 2025 | The participants are being announced!
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The 2025 cycling year is about to begin! WorldTour riders traditionally start with the Tour Down Under in the south of Australia. In the meantime, the provisional start list is being released, and IDLProCycling.com will monitor developments in this article.
Jayco AlUla announced its team for the Tour Down Under - with Luke Plapp and Mauro Schmid - at the end of 2024, and some other names are also emerging here and there from the other teams. Such a (business class) trip to Australia must be planned well in advance, as it is a long trip at the beginning of the 2025 cycling year.
With the traditional course they've mapped out again in Adelaide and the surrounding area, we also see a more traditional field of participants. This includes many young, neo-profs, and older riders who love coming there. For example, Tijmen Graat, Menno Huising, and Loe van Belle of Visma | Lease a Bike belong to the first category, while Dylan van Baarle of that same team, Bauke Mollema (Lidl-Trek) and Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) already lean more towards category two.
Defending champion Stephen Williams has also been enrolled again by his team Israel-Premier Tech. The Welshman will be able to expect competition from the likes of Jhonatan Narváez (UAE-Team Emirates), Paul Lapeira (Decathlon AG2R,) Laurence Pithie, Finn Fisher-Black (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) and Alberto Bettiol of EF Education-EasyPost. Good sprinters on the provisional start list are Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), Sam Welsford (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Tobias Lund Andresen (dsm-firmenich PostNL) and young Lidl-Trek-German Tim Torn Teutenberg.
As for Dutch riders, in addition to the names above, we also see debutants Matthijs Paasschens (Bahrain Victorious), Pascal Eenkhoorn (Soudal Quick-Step) and Jan Maas (Cofidis), as well as Danny van Poppel (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Jardi van der Lee (EF Education-EasyPost), Lars Boven (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Ide Schelling (XDS Astana) and Taco van der Hoorn of Intermarché-Wanty. The latter has planned a biking trip through New Zealand beforehand.
Confirmed participants Tour Down Under 2025
- Jayco AlUla (Luke Plapp and Mauro Schmid)
Provisional participant list Tour Down Under 2025
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- This was very informative! Luiz Antonio Duarte Ferreiraluizantonioduarteferreira02-01-2025
- Well explained, thanks for the clarity! Daniel DantasDanieldantas20-12-2024
- This is the kind of 'news' that belongs in a cheap tabloid. No matter how boring the offseason gets, nobody wants to read this.
santiagobenites19-12-2024 - I wish we could have seen him try. He'd absolutely get dropped before Pogi overtakes his domestiquesVeganpotter10-12-2024
- Talk is cheap! Next year barring crashes with a healthy team... all well be on track! Some need to talk to make a headline!mootman27-11-2024
- I do not see this event listed on HBO Max Sports Online? Can anyone confirm? Thanks!
MrYuck23-11-2024 - It seemed that he was focusing forward at the time of the crash, after seeing a quick video snippet. But one thing I think he should focus on more intently is breaking a bad habit he has, right now. And that is his constant looking over his shoulders. He does that so much, that I am very sure it is not good for him. Simply watch videos of the greats of CX and you will see very little of that constant looking over their shoulders. That is a behavior that betrays a bit of insecurity on his part. He shouldn't be so concerned, incessantly, about what is over his shoulder. He needn't worry they didn't all disappear. He neds to keep his focus more ahead of himself, and he needs to pay a bit more attention to himself, in a confident manner. It is very frustrating to watch, because it is apparent that he has a lot of potential, and is in much better shape thwan many of his competitors, but the mental game needs to be sharpened more, because that part of strategy plays a huge part in the final results
reemmo022-11-2024 - hahahaha love this shit! I didnt even watched the race, but reading all the gossip articles of how stupid this is!Zatoichi19-11-2024
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- 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