A blank canvas awaits! 🎨🖌️
Inspired by a famous artist of the region, Lidl-Trek presents the eight riders that will head to Lille for the Grand Depart of this year’s Tour de France on Saturday (5 July):
Edward Theuns (BEL, 34): Four participations, 2016, 2018, 2020 & 2021
Thibau Nys (BEL, 22): Tour de France and Grand Tour debut
Jasper Stuyven (BEL, 33): Eight participations, 2016 & 2018-2024
Simone Consonni (ITA, 30): One participation, 2020
Jonathan Milan (ITA, 24): Tour de France debut
Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, 24): One Participation, 2023
Toms Skujins (LAT, 34): Six participations, 2018-2022 & 2024
Quinn Simmons (USA, 24): Two participations, 2022 & 2023
What did our Head Sports Director, Steven de Jongh say about the rider roster?
“We have an ambitious Tour de France team for 2025 with multiple goals that we want to fulfil over the upcoming three weeks of racing in France. Mattias Skjelmose will aim for the General Classification while Jonathan Milan will make his first appearance at the Tour de France for this year’s sprint stages, especially stage one, which, of course, is super important.
“There is the opportunity to win the first yellow jersey of the race and Jonny will have his lead out train with him: Jasper Stuyven, Edward Theuns and Simone Consonni. We have seen how well this group works together and they will take care of the lead out. Quinn Simmons, who is coming into the race off the back of a really great stage win at Tour de Suisse, will be the team’s dedicated puller. So, he has to ride a lot of kilometers in front to make it possible to have a sprint while, Toms Skujins will do final positioning and he will also take care of Mattias.
“Then, finally we have Thibau Nys making a big step up by racing the Tour de France as his first-ever Grand Tour and there are definitely stages along the way that can suit him. The complete group has not raced a lot together but I am confident that we can make it work and have a great race and keep the momentum from an incredible Giro d’Italia going.”
