Rider Profiles

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Isaac del Toro 🇲🇽

Ah, the Tour de l'Avenir, the Tour of France for the youngsters. How insightful it proves to be at times - especially for del Toro's case - who got snapped up by UAE directly after clinching the general classification in this year's 2023 race.

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Ilan Van Wilder 🇧🇪

Ilan Van Wilder (ILV) has been cleaning up lately. Pulling out a general classification (GC) win and a stage at the Deutschland Tour, and also a 4th place GC finish at the Tour of Pologne. Now take those performances with a grain of salt. They're not huge races,

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Luke Lamperti 🇺🇸

Luke Lamperti has been having an outstanding 2023 season, picking up three stage wins in Tour of Japan, along with a stage in the relatively stacked U23 startlist at the baby Giro. Lamperti's even managed to place third in the general classification behind Pellaud in Le Tour de

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Carlos Rodriguez 🇪🇸

Which team will Carlos Rodriguez be switching to next year? That's the big question as we write this. Will it be the rumoured Movistar? It makes sense given his heritage, and also given that Movistar need another strong GC contender alongside Mas. And Rodriguez is most certainly another

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Corbin Strong 🇳🇿

Cyclists, given the nature of having to be incredibly thin, tend to look far below their years. Corbin we feel is the opposite. He seems to look in his mid thirties in all his pictures. But don't let the photos dissuade you that this lad is over and

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Tobias Halland Johannessen 🇳🇴

Tobias is quietly having a great year, and that makes us excited, especially as bettors. Given the subtle nature of his rise, the bookmakers are still giving Johannessen value odds. There's going to be a breakout soon and we're amped to take advantage of it. Johannessen

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Albert Withen Philipsen 🇩🇰

There's not enough stats on Philipsen to yet display a worthwhile rider profile but after watching the race a few days back we wanted to write a post to exclaim the extreme prowess of what should be an exceptional cyclist in a few years. Philipsen blew away the

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Magnus Sheffield 🇺🇸

We're definitely not recommending you throw down any cash on the Tour de France 2024 this early - but if you wanted to place a cheeky bet you wouldn't be defenestrating your money by placing it on Sheffield. Especially given that Geraint Thomas will likely be

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Oscar Onley 🇬🇧

We don't know why we're less stoked about Oscar Onley than Max Poole, another rider who we've recently done a profile for. Maybe it's because of the trend line of Max Poole which seem more up and to the right then Onley?

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Mattias Skjelmose 🇩🇰

Skjelmose has been having quite a roller coaster of a season. It probably peaked when he won the general classification at the Tour de Suisse in June with days on each step of the podium (1,2,3) on stages within that Tour as well. Skjelmose has shown that he&

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Felix Gall 🇦🇹

What an outstanding performance by Gall yesterday at the Tour de France! We knew he was good from when he claimed first at the Tour de Suisse on Stage 4 - but we honestly didn't think the GC would give him enough of a gap to be able

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Joshua Tarling 🇬🇧

If you're concerned if anyone's ever going to beat Jonas Vingegaard after his absolutely insane time trial performance at the Tour de France 2023 - look no further than up and comer Josh Tarling. We're jesting of course 🙃. Josh is far too heavy to

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Lenny Martinez 🇫🇷

Groupama - FDJ has a stacked youngster squad. If you've been hoping for a French renaissance pay attention to this team. Between Grégoire and Martinez we're glued to them with eyes wide open. Martinez can climb - showing off his stuff multiple times this year, most

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Romain Grégoire 🇫🇷

Grégoire is fast and people don't quite know it yet. But we won't blame them because this man is only twenty years of age. Grégoire picked up the general classification win at 4 Jours de Dunkerque, and in that feat won a stage and nearly missed

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Derek Gee 🇨🇦

Boy have we been excited about the day we can write about a Canadian. No disrespect to Michael Woods but he's been semi-retired except his Mur de Huy attempts every year. Gee, on the other hand, over the past few days has become a standout star at the

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Gaia Realini 🇮🇹

Rider Type: Climber - Age: 21 - Weight/Height: 26.66 kg/m Gaia Realini, also known as the "pocket rocket", is an incredibly slender climbing machine that has broken onto the women's world tour cycling scene with panache. Recently she's shown her dramatic

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Cian Uijtdebroeks 🇧🇪

Rider Type: Climber / GC - Age: 20 - Weight/Height: 36.75 kg/m Cian Uijtdebroeks has been a standout star the past couple of years, and at only 20 years of age we're incredibly excited to see where he goes. Cian recently placed sixth at the Tour

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Max Poole 🇬🇧

Rider Type: Climber / GC - Age: 20 - Height - 1.85m Apparently Max Poole was hamstrung by Covid in 2022, but boy oh boy, has he come roaring back in 2023. Poole's most recent standout performance being on Thyon 2000 - an hour long climb in the

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Neilson Powless 🇺🇸

Rider Type: Climber / Time Trialist - Age: 26 - Weight/Height: 36.61 kg/m The Jumbo effect, the gigantic performance bump riders gain once they join Jumbo from another team, must just have been delayed in affecting Powless. Now three years on from Jumbo and on Education First (EF)

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Kévin Vauqelin 🇫🇷

Rider Type: Climber / Puncheur / GC - Age: 21 - Weight/Height: 39.20 kg/m France's next great hope. Given that Julian Alaphilippe seems like he's chatted extensively with Sagan about early retirement and quiet quitting - they most certainly need another French prospect for the

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Michael Leonard 🇨🇦

Rider Type: Climber / Time Trialist - Age: 18 - Weight/Height: 35.29 kg/m An 18 year old? Why are you doing a profile of an 18 year old? There's barely any races under his belt! This is completely true, but if you know us by now,

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Marc Soler 🇪🇸

Rider Type: Puncheur / Climber - Age: 29 - Weight/Height: 36.55 kg/m If you haven't watched the Movistar docu-series on Netflix - it's well worth a gander. One of the highlights in our opinion is the stubborness and disobedience of Mr. Soler at times.

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Matteo Jorgenson 🇺🇸

Ever wonder why Movistar is having a vicissitudes of fortune in their early season, racking up UCI points and top 10s galore compared to the previous few years? Two names immediately come to mind: Oier Lazkano (who placed second at Dwars Door Vlaanderen) and Matteo Jorgenson. Jorgenson, who's