Van Aert plans to do the Giro and Tour in 2025

Wout van Aert reveals his race calendar for 2025. A plan in which he will resume what he could not accomplish in 2024 due to the serious fall he suffered in the Dwars door Vlaanderen with the Flanders-Roubaix double and his participation in the Giro and Tour as key points.

The cobblestone classics, Giro and Tour, key points of Wout van Aert's season

Wout van Aert repeats the plan he had planned for last year and that was thwarted by the serious fall he suffered in A travers de Flandes just before his first major goal, which led him to give up competing in the Giro d'Italia where he had planned to debut.

After ending his cyclocross campaign, where there are no modifications despite the fans longing for a World Championship duel between him and Van der Poel after the two resounding victories that the Belgian has left us in this first week of the year, Van Aert sticks to the plan and, after competing in the Maasmechelen World Cup on January 25, will focus on training on the road until his debut in the Jaén-Paraíso Interior Classic to be held on February 17.

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A first contact that will continue in the Volta ao Algarve the following week, both races with a purely preparatory focus for the cobblestones, starting 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 will not see him with a race number again until the end of the month when the final part of the preparation for the Flanders-Roubaix double takes place.

Van Aert will take part in the E3 Saxo Classic, Gent-Wevelgem and will repeat the days before Flanders participation in the Dwars door Vlaanderen that disrupted 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 withdraw from competition again and focus on training for the Giro d'Italia, without any of the previous competitions that those who go to the Italian round usually face, such as the Tour of the Alps.

After the Giro d'Italia, the same focus of only 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.