Jonas Vingegaard

On Thursday, Team Jumbo-Visma will start the Spanish four-day stage race O Gran Camino. It will be the first race of the season for reigning Tour de…

A bar in blue, green, white, yellow, and black highlights the history of the Dutch team with Blanco, Belkin, Team LottoNL-Jumbo, and Team Jumbo-Visma, as well as a badge on the back. I hope they will go home with a good feeling after stage four and will have learned a lot from the experienced riders in the selection.” "On day three, all the GC riders will have to put in serious effort anyway." On the first day, the peloton will face two third-category climbs and one second-category climb. The riders will compete in three stages and a final time trial. On Thursday, Team Jumbo-Visma will start the Spanish four-day stage race O Gran Camino.

Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar has confirmed he will miss Strade-Bianche, so he can compete at Paris-Nice, where the UAE Emirates rider will ...

[dominated the Vuelta a Andalucia](https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/ruta-del-sol/2023/vuelta-andalucia-highlights-tadej-pogacar-wins-stage-4-as-dominance-continues_vid1846108/video.shtml). Pogacar confirmed he will race Milan-San Remo on March 29, the Tour of Flanders on April 2 and is expected to compete in the Ardennes Classics later in April. Stream the 2023 UAE Tour from February 20-26 and much more of the cycling season live on Eurosport and [‘It’s up to us!’ – Evenepoel says other riders must rise to Pogacar standards](https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/uae-tour-1/2023/its-up-to-us-remco-evenepoel-says-other-riders-must-rise-to-tadej-pogacar-standards-after-slovenian-_sto9405376/story.shtml) [Cavendish could ride Giro before Tour de France record bid](https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/giro-d-italia/2023/mark-cavendish-could-race-2023-giro-d-italia-as-well-as-tour-de-france-record-attempt-admits-team-bo_sto9397350/story.shtml) “If I want to be really good in Paris-Nice, which I’ve never done before and it’s a super hard race, the team time trial will be important and we need to spend a few days before the race together. The only occasions they raced each other after the Tour de France was Il Lombardia, where Pogacar was victorious and Vingegaard was 16th.

Tadej Pogacar is on a winning rampage and he's taking that form to the 2023 Paris-Nice. And he's decided to skip Strade Bianche to be ready.

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) is on a winning rampage and he's taking that form to the 2023 Paris-Nice. Pogacar, already a winner of the Tour de France in 2020 and 2021, succumbed to Vingegaard in last year's Tour. Tadej Pogacar is on a winning rampage and he's taking that form to the 2023 Paris-Nice.

2022 Tour de France winner makes season debut in four-day Spanish race.

On day three, all the GC riders will have to put in serious effort anyway,” Maassen said. “With Stevie and Rohan, we have two super strong and experienced guys in the team. He has done a lot of intervals there and I think he is already in good shape to show something special.” “Jonas needs to prepare for Paris-Nice, a big goal for him at the beginning of March. Only four WorldTour teams are on the start list, with Vingegaard’s biggest rivals perhaps David de la Cruz and Joe Dombrowsk (Astana-Qazaqstan), Saudi Tour winner Ruben Guerriero and his Movistar teammate Ivan Sosa. On Tuesday Pogačar also confirmed he will skip Strade Bianche and ride Paris-Nice, setting up a first stage race battle with Vingegaard.

Ahead of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad kicking off the 2023 Classics on Saturday, we caught up with Eurosport expert Adam Blythe for his thoughts on the upcoming season ...

“I think it's just the calculation of it, when to attack, and he's never had a challenge like that before. And I don't want to change that,” he said. I think he can do it and win all five, but not for a few years yet.” “I think he'll want to come back to Flanders this year and prove a point. Vingegaard and Roglic took it in turns to accelerate clear on an iconic Stage 11, forcing Pogacar to close each move and expend energy. So I think he'll just want to come back and dominate it like he did last year.