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It is the week after the Tour de France and the eye of the racing world has shortly turned to the second version of the Tour de France Femmes.
Nevertheless, the celebrities of the lads’s peloton are nonetheless basking within the glow of the calendar’s largest race and taking over the normal spherical of post-Tour criteriums.
Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and inexperienced jersey winner Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) are among the many riders in motion at quite a lot of criteriums this week together with polka dot jersey winner Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) and stage winners together with Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious), Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), and Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe).
Monday introduced the primary batch of ‘races’ in Belgium and the Netherlands which is able to pack the upcoming week and even stretch into August.
Within the Dutch city of Boxmeer on Monday it was Vingegaard who got here out on high, beating Poels and Mike Teunissen (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) to the road. Over in Aalst in Belgium, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) took the win forward of Philipsen and Ciccone.
Tour runner-up and white jersey winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Staff Emirates) is the notable absentee from the week’s festivities. The Slovenian was because of journey in Aalst however pulled out final week, citing the necessity to get well after the Tour.
The occasions are, after all, removed from official UCI races. Tour jersey winners sometimes race within the well-known jerseys received through the race, having picked up a pleasant look charge for collaborating.
The largest stars journey on the entrance to contest the win with no actual racing for the road – as a substitute, the criteriums are placed on extra for the general public spectacle than the competitors.
Put up-Tour de France 2023 criteriums
July 24, Boxmeer: 1 Jonas Vingegaard, 2 Wout Poels, 3 Mike Teunissen
July 24, Aalst: 1 Mathieu van der Poel, 2 Jasper Philipsen, 3 Giulio Ciccone
July 25, Surhuisterveen: Giulio Ciccone, Wout Poels, Fabio Jakobsen, Carlos Rodríguez, Biniam Girmay…
July 25, Roeselare: Jasper Philipsen, Michał Kwiatkowski, Jordi Meeus, Yves Lampaert, Oliver Naesen, Tiesj Benoot…
July 26, Chaam: Mathieu van der Poel, Jasper Philipsen, Wout Poels, Sam Oomen, Fem van Empel, Lonneke Uneken…
July 27, Wateringen: Wout Poels, Cees Bol, Jordi Meeus, Ramon Sinkeldam, Danny van Poppel, Dylan van Baarle…
July 28, Heerlen: Wout Poels, Wilco Kelderman, Danny van Poppel…
July 29, Maarheeze: Wout Poels, Jordi Meeus, Mike Teunissen…
July 30, Emmen: Wout Poels, Bauke Mollema, Ramon Sinkeldam, Danny van Poppel…
July 31, Roosendaal: Jasper Philipsen, Wout Poels, Giulio Ciccone, Fabio Jakobsen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Fem van Empel…