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📊🇩🇰Albert Withen Philipsen will be the youngest ever participant in the history of 🇮🇹Strade Bianche on Saturday. 🔻Youngest at start in Strade (2007>2025): 18-186: 🇩🇰Withen Philipsen ('25*) 19-095: 🇮🇹Velasco ('15) 19-124: 🇨🇴Sosa ('17) 19-190: 🇩🇪Brenner ('22) 19-200: 🇪🇸Romeo ('23) 19-201: 🇨🇴Díaz ('14)

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📊Both 🇳🇱Mollema and 🇳🇱Poels aim at participating in 🇮🇹Giro d’Italia 2025. 🔝It is would be their 24th GrandTour, most of all active riders. 📈30 riders participated in 25+ GTs. How many do you know?

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📊💨🇰🇿XDS Astana Team is chasing 🌍WorldTour license for 2026-2028. 🔻Gap to license at 01/01: 18. 🇫🇷COF - 18,233 21. 🇰🇿AST - 13,563 (-4,670 pts) 🔺Gap 03/03: 18. 🇫🇷COF - 19,429 21. 🇰🇿XAT - 16,439 (-2,990 pts) 🔝Backlog decreased from 26 to 15% in first months of 2025.

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📊🔝Smallest sum of results in 🇧🇪Flemish opening weekend 2025: 4 | 🇧🇪Philipsen 15 | 🇸🇰Kubis 16 | 🇳🇱van den Berg M. 26 | 🇬🇧Askey 29 | 🇳🇱Pluimers 38 | 🇳🇱Bol 42 | 🇧🇪Allegaert 43 | 🇧🇪Naesen 46 | 🇧🇪Braet 47 | 🇬🇧Wright 48 | 🇳🇱Teunissen 53 | 🇳🇱Reinders, 🇳🇱van Dijke M. 55 | 🇩🇰S Pedersen

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📊🏆🇧🇪Philipsen wins 🇧🇪Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 2025 at his 27th birthday. 🎂🏆Last riders winning a big classic at their birthday: 2025: 🇧🇪Philipsen (KBK) 1997: 🇮🇹Rebellin (CSS) 1996: 🇩🇪Bölts (CSS) 🤝 @velostatistics.bsky.social

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📊Youngest participants in 🇧🇪Omloop Nieuwsblad since 2010: 18-297: 🇺🇸Simmons (‘20) 19-072: 🇩🇰Pedersen M. (‘15) 19-133: 🇳🇱Kooij (‘21) 19-141: 🇩🇪Herzog (‘24) 19-139: 🇪🇸Romeo (‘23) 19-198: 🇩🇪Reutter (‘16) 19-207: 🇬🇧Brennan (‘25) 19-261: 🏳️Manakov (‘12) 19-313: 🇺🇸Sheffield (‘22)

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➡️🥇Winners of both classics in opening-weekend: 4 | 🇧🇪Van Petegem, 🇧🇪De Vlaeminck, 🇧🇪Museeuw 3 | 🇧🇪Declerck, 🇳🇱Raas, 🇧🇪Planckaert , J. 2 | 🇧🇪Nuyens, 🇧🇪De Cabooter, 🇧🇪Stuyven, 🇧🇪Pieters, 🇧🇪van Aert

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📊🥇+🥈 in the ITT of 🇵🇹Volta ao Algarve (Vingegaard and Van Aert) is the first 1&2 result of 🇳🇱Team Visma | Lease a Bike riders since the 🥇+🥈+🥉 in the GC of 🇪🇸Vuelta a España 2023 (Kuss, Vinegaard and Roglic).

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Youngest rider in top 10 WT race (final or stage) - since 2005 18-142 | Albert Withen Philipsen | Tour Down Under 2025 18-148 | PAUL SEIXAS | UAE TOUR 2025 19-086 | Remco Evenepoel | Tour of Turkey 2019 19-109 | Quinn Simmons | Bretagne Classic 2020 19-168 | Matthew Brennan | Tour Down Under 2025

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📊🏆13th season in a row with a victory for 🇮🇪Sam Bennett: 🇫🇷Provence’25 s1. 📈Consecutive seasons with win: 15 | 🇮🇹Ulissi 14 | 🇳🇴Kristoff 13 | 🇫🇷Démare, 🇮🇪Bennett 11 | 🇰🇿Lutsenko, 🇧🇪Wellens, 🇫🇷Alaphilippe, 🇸🇮Roglič 10 | 🇳🇱Groenewegen🇨🇴Gaviria, 🇦🇺Ewan 9 | 🇩🇰Pedersen

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📊⚡️🇧🇪Tim Merlier and 🇧🇪Jasper Philipsen both competed in 32 races that ended in a bunchsprint. 📅💨32 bunchsprints (2x DNF) 🔝Better result: JP 17 - 15 TM 🥇Victory: JP 6 - 11 TM 🔺Both top-5: 15 sprints ✅4 potential clashes in 🇦🇪UAE Tour 2025 (stage 1/4/5/6).

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📊📅🇧🇪Philipsen starting season in 🇦🇪UAE Tour. 💨Sprinters line-up for 🇦🇪'25 is stellar, 5 of 6 best sprinters starting: ✅🇧🇪Philipsen (99) ✅🇧🇪Merlier (97) ✅🇳🇱Kooij (96) ✅🇮🇹Milan (95) ❌🇪🇷Girmay (95) ✅🇳🇱Groenewegen (94) .. ✅🇧🇪Thijssen (93) ✅🇦🇺Welsford (91) ✅🇨🇴Molano (91) 🔗 www.cyclingoracle.com/en/riders

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📊📆Next top-riders starting 2025 season: 🇫🇷Prov - 02/14:🇱🇻Skujiņš 🇪🇸Murcia - 02/15: 🇲🇽del Toro, 🇧🇪Wellens 🇵🇹Figueira-02/16: 🇫🇷Alaphilippe, 🇧🇪Van Wilder 🇦🇪UAE - 02/17:🇸🇮Pogačar, 🇧🇪Van Eetvelt, 🇦🇺Storer 🇪🇸Jaén - 02/17: 🇧🇪van Aert 🇵🇹Alg - 02/19: 🇩🇰Vingegaard, 🇸🇮Roglič, 🇨🇭Küng, 🇫🇷Bardet, 🇫🇷Grégoire 🇪🇸Sol - 02/19: 🇪🇸Mas

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📊🚹🏆Most pro-wins since 2022: 58 | 🇸🇮Pogačar 37 | 🇧🇪Philipsen, 🇧🇪Evenepoel 35 | 🇳🇱Kooij 34 | 🇧🇪Merlier 31 | 🇩🇰Vingegaard 28 | 🇩🇰Pedersen, 🇸🇮Roglič 27 | 🇧🇪De Lie 21 | 🇳🇱Jakobsen, 🇨🇭Hirschi 19 | 🇧🇪van Aert 18 | 🇳🇱Groenewegen 17 | 🇮🇹Milan 15 | 🇳🇴Kristoff, 🇮🇹Ganna, 🇳🇱van der Poel

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📊🟢🇸🇮Tadej Pogačar starting in 🇫🇷Paris-Roubaix 2025? 🏆Last riders winning at their debut in a monument: 2022 🇧🇪LBL: 🇧🇪Evenepoel 2021 🇮🇹LOM: 🇸🇮Pogačar 2021 🇫🇷PR: 🇮🇹Colbrelli 2020 🇧🇪LBL: 🇸🇮Roglič 2009 🇮🇹MSR: 🇬🇧Cavendish 2004 🇮🇹LOM: 🇮🇹Cunego 2000 🇮🇹LOM: 🇱🇹Rumsas

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📊Most constant rider in 🇪🇸Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (smallest difference between best and worst result): 2025: 🇫🇷Alleno (11: 🔺17-🔻28) 2024: 🇬🇧Double (7: 11-18) 2023: 🇦🇺Scotson (8: 12-20) 2022: 🇫🇷Petit (19: 100-119) 2021: 🇳🇿Monk (10: 89-99) 2020: 🇳🇱van Emden (10: 106-116)

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📊🏆Most professional victories in 2025, by teams: 5 | 🇦🇪UAE Team Emirates 4 | 🇦🇺Team Jayco AlUla, 🇩🇪Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, 🇨🇭Q36.5 PCT 3 | 🇨🇭Tudor PCT, 🇧🇪Soudal - Quick Step 2 | 🇫🇷Cofidis, 🇪🇸Movistar Team

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📊🏆95th victory for 🇳🇱Wiebes, 50th in the 🌍Women’s World Tour: 🇦🇪UAE Tour’25 stage 2. 🏆Most wins at highest level: 64 | 🇳🇱Vos 54 | 🇳🇱van Vleuten 50 | 🇳🇱Wiebes 34 | 🇳🇱van der Breggen 24 | 🇧🇪Kopecky 17 | 🇮🇹Longo Borghini

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📊🏆Third season in a row 🇳🇱Lorena Wiebes gets her first win at 1st or 2nd raceday in 🇦🇪UAE Tour: 🚺🇦🇪UAE’23 s1: 🥈 🚺🇦🇪UAE’23 s2: 🥇 🚺🇦🇪UAE’24 s1: 🥇 🚺🇦🇪UAE’24 s2: 🥇 🚺🇦🇪UAE’25 s1: 🥇 🚺🇦🇪UAE’25 s2: …

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🔮🎂35th birthday of 🇨🇴Nairo Quintana, congrats @nairoingreen.bsky.social! 🏆GC 🇪🇸Vuelta’16 and 🇮🇹Giro’14 🏆2x GC 🇮🇹Tirreno, GC 🇫🇷Dauphiné, 🇨🇭Romandie, 🇪🇸Catalunya, 🇪🇸Basque Country ⭕️Stage-win in all 10 big stage-races. 🥇51 pro-wins, 23 at WT 👕69 leader-jerseys at pro level

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A 34.3km TTT today at the Volta a la Communitat Valenciana The last time each of the Grand Tours had a longer TTT than that: 🇫🇷Tour: 2018 - 35.5km 🇮🇹Giro: 2006 - 35km 🇪🇸Vuelta: 1991 - 40.4km It's a very long TTT for a stage race of five days

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📈🚹Share of points scored by riders aged U23 is increasing, trend continues in first month of 2025 (@procyclingstats.com). 2018: 9.2% 2019: 10.8% 2020: 10.9% 2021: 10.9% 2022: 13.6% 2023: 13.2% 2024: 15.2% 2025*: 20.5%

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📊First raceday at professional level for 🇫🇷Paul Seixas in 🇫🇷GP Cycliste de Marseille La Marseillaise 2025 at 18 years and 131 days. 🔝5th, good start to his career with 🇫🇷Decathlon AG2R LMT.

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📊 In Liévin for the 1st time in the history of the world championships cyclocross only 2️⃣ nationalities finished in the top 🔟 of the men's elite category 👉 7️⃣ Belgian riders 👉 3️⃣ Dutch riders

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📊🏆12 times 🌈World Champion, 🇳🇱Mathieu van der Poel: ✅1: 🌈MJ CX 2012 ✅2: 🌈MJ CX 2013 ✅3: 🌈MJ RR 2013 ✅4: 🌈ME CX 2015 ✅5: 🌈ME CX 2019 ✅6: 🌈ME CX 2020 ✅7: 🌈ME CX 2021 ✅8: 🌈ME CX 2023 ✅9: 🌈ME RR 2023 ✅10: 🌈ME CX 2024 ✅11: 🌈ME GRV 2024 ✅12: 🌈ME CX 2025

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📊⚡What's your favourite cyclocross clash between 🇳🇱Mathieu van der Poel and 🇧🇪Wout van Aert? 🔝Mine is, without a doubt, 🌈World Championships 🇳🇱Hoogerheide 2023. 🔗stats-blog on the biggest rivalry in cycling: www.cyclingoracle.com/en/blog/van-...

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🏆 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th cyclocross victory (youth + elite cat) for Mathieu van der Poel when wearing the rainbow 🌈 jersey. #cxworldcup 🏆 8️⃣th victory in Hoogerheide (elite category), personal record in a cyclocross location

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📊🏆🇧🇪Tim Merlier continuing his winning ways: 🇸🇦AlUla Tour 2025 stage 1. 📊🚹Most pro-wins since 2023: 42 | 🇸🇮Pogačar 28 | 🇧🇪Philipsen, 🇧🇪Merlier 24 | 🇩🇰Vingegaard 23 | 🇸🇮Roglič 22 | 🇧🇪Evenepoel 21 | 🇳🇱Kooij 19 | 🇩🇰Pedersen 17 | 🇧🇪De Lie, 🇨🇭Hirschi 14 | 🇮🇹Milan 12 | 🇳🇴Waerenskjold

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📊🏆Victories in 2025: 🚹ME (pro-wins): 3 | 🇦🇺Welsford 2 | 🇪🇨Narváez 1 | 🇵🇹Morgado, 🇫🇷Coquard, 🇪🇸Romo, 🇦🇺Durbridge, 🇦🇺Plapp, 🇨🇭Hirsch 🚺WE (UCI-wins): 2 | 🇨🇭Rüegg, 🇹🇭Somrat 1 | 🇨🇭Ruesser, 🇳🇱Hengeveld, 🇺🇸Dygert, 🇦🇺Stewart, 🇮🇹Copponi, 🇫🇮Henttala, 🇦🇺Chapman, 🇳🇱de Jong

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📊🏆🇨🇭Marc Hirschi winning his first race for 🇨🇭Tudor: 🇪🇸Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 2025. 🎯Last riders winning first race at new team: 2025: 🇨🇭Hirschi (CCV) - TUD 2024: 🇦🇺Welsford (TDU s1) - BOH 2023: 🇳🇱van Baarle (OHN) - TJV 2020: 🇮🇪Bennett (TDU s1) - SOQ ❓Others you can think of?

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📊Startlist Quality of 🇦🇺Tour Down Under in 2025 is lowest since the race is 🌎WT-level (2008). 🔝Lowest PCS-rank of best rider competing: 2025: 35th (🇬🇧Williams) 2008: 19th (🇦🇺McEwen) 2024: 15th (🇮🇹Ganna) ↕️ 2019: 2nd (🇸🇰Sagan) 2018: 2nd (🇸🇰Sagan) 2010: 1st (🇪🇸Valverde) 2017: 1st (🇸🇰Sagan)

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📊🇺🇸Lidl-Trek had 5 riders in the first group behind 🇪🇸Romo at the finish of 🇦🇺Tour Down Under 2025 stage 3. 4th: 🇩🇰Within Philipsen (18) 6th: 🇦🇹Konrad (23) 7th: 🇮🇹Bagioli (25) 14th: 🇪🇸López JP. (27) 18th: 🇳🇱Mollema (38)

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📊🏆First career victory for 🇪🇸Javier Romo is at 🌍WT-level in 🇦🇺Tour Down Under 2025 stage 3. 🔝Best results at WT-level (n=95): 🥇: 🇦🇺TDU’25 s3 7th: 🇫🇷TdF’24 s9 11th: 🇫🇷CdD’24 s7 12th: 🇫🇷CdD’24 GC + s8 13th: 🇫🇷CdD’24 s6 14th: 🇫🇷TdF’24 s11 17th: 🇪🇸VCC’24 s5

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📊🏆🇪🇸Javier Romo securing 4th season in a row with a victory in January for 🇪🇸Movistar Team. 🏆First in January? ✅2025: 🇪🇸Romo (TDU s3) ✅2024: 🇪🇸Sánchez P. (Andratx) ✅2023: 🇨🇴Gaviria (San Juan s4) ✅2022: 🇪🇸Valverde (Andratx) ❌2021: 🇪🇸Valverde (GP Indurain) ❌2020: 🇪🇸Soler (Andratx)

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