DRESSAGE AS A BREAKING
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HIS BEGINNINGS 2022
Le week-end d'ouverture sur l'Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (76The Tour of the Pays de Vaud) et Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne (84The Tour of the Pays de Vaud) does not know how to proceed as planned. He who experienced several punctures and mechanical incidents on Saturday which cost him unnecessary and excessive effort even before the fight had started. On Sunday, on the Omloop Het Nieuswblad his race went better without being exceptional. In charge of revenge therefore, for Danish from Quick- Step Alpha Vynil.
HIS CONQUESTS
Winner of the E3 Saxo Bank Classic, formerly Harelbeke and Tour of Flanders, Kasper Asgreen has confirmed that he can be counted on to win Paris Roubaix this year too. We know it, its Quick-Step Alpha Vynil team is not the least experienced in this field, it's even the strongest. After the passages of Nick Nuyens, Johan Museeuw, or even Tom Boonen the cobbled classics are the DNA of this team. In 2019, Kasper Asgreen had already finished 2The Tour of the Pays de Vaud of the Tour of Flanders by beating Alexander Kristoff or Mathieu Van der Poel. His level on the cobblestones really took off in 2020 and his victory over Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne.
It is true that with his 1m92, the Danish beats his opponents in steamroller mode on the flat. It is not for nothing that the double world champion Julian Alaphilippe strips for the latter on cobbled races. In 2021, his victories on the E3 Saxo Bank and the Tour of Flanders put him in a new caste of riders who can win Paris-Roubaix.
ON THE FORCE, HIS TEAM
The man from Kolding, is in the strongest team on the cobblestones. The strength of Quick-Step Alpha Vynil is the collective. Kasper Asgreen is a knife blade among many others: Yves Lampaert, Florian Senechal, Davide Ballerini, or Zdenek Stybar can also win cobbled races. The victories of each of them are built on the terms of an unbearable staring game for their opponents who find themselves with 2 or 3 wolfpack man in the end of a race and who are forced to ride, it's well known, wolves hunt in packs !
But still, read Wout Wan Aert, Mathieu Van Der Poel, or Thomas Pidcock are strong enough to anticipate attacks. Kasper Asgreen is for me the strongest runner in this intractable collective. big wheeler, resistant, and fast in the sprint, demonstrates his sprint on the Tour of Flanders in 2020. The downside for this season 2022 for Kasper Asgreen's team may have been the absence of Tim Declercq, The tractor, the model teammate who rides for 200km, who suffers from a heart problem and who will give opponents the opportunity to attack from further away.
RACE PROGRAM
Kasper Asgreen will now tread the cobblestones of E3 Saxo-Bank on Friday 25 March before the weekend when he will participate in Gent-Wevelgem on 27 March culminating in, the Tour of Flanders 3 next april. After the Belgian classics, he will do the Amstel, Paris-Roubaix and normally the Tour de France which will start from its home in Denmark on July 1.
