Tour of Flanders winner Kasper Asgreen will race for EF Training-EasyPost in 2025 the American workforce introduced on Wednesday, leaving Soudal-QuickStep after seven seasons.
The versatile Dane has been signed to bolster and lead the cobbled Classics squad and brings with him a wealth of expertise having received De Ronde, E3 Saxo Financial institution and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne previously 4 years.
Additionally a winner of a Tour de France stage from the breakaway, Asgreen believes he matches completely into the attacking philosophy EF Training-EasyPost have honed in recent times.
“The principle cause for me to return to this workforce is the way in which that the blokes race. You’ll be able to see that there is all the time a plan to attempt to win,” Asgreen stated in a press launch.
“Even when the race shouldn’t be completely suited to them, the blokes will not simply sit within the bunch, ready for the opposite groups to take cost.”
“On this workforce, we will do every little thing that we will to make races develop the way in which we would like them to develop. For me, it’s the principle factor: I just like the workforce’s strategy to racing.”
Having stepped as much as WorldTour stage with QuickStep halfway via the 2018 season, the Belgian squad is all Asgreen has generally known as an elite. Nonetheless, EF Professional Biking founder and CEO Jonathan Vaughters equally believes it is an ideal match.
“Kasper is a great racer who could make huge assaults stick on the ends of the hardest classics,” Vaughters stated, effectively conscious that Asgreen’s success in Flanders got here in a dash a deux towards Mathieu van der Poel – one thing only a few riders come out on prime off towards the Dutchman.
“He can learn a race very effectively. When the contenders are on their final legs, he’ll choose his second to go. He packs an important dash too, as he confirmed when he received the Ronde van Vlaanderen.”
With wins being far and few between for Asgreen previously few years, with none in 2024 and 2022, he is seeking to get again to the highest step of podiums throughout his time at EF, which is because of be just one yr for now.
“The principle objective for the yr is to guide the workforce to victories within the spring in Belgium,” he stated. “We’ll have a extremely, actually robust workforce with a number of riders that may combine it up within the finales. That could be a recipe that I consider in and one which has labored effectively for me.”
