'The team is very strong' - Narváez and Vermeersch join Tadej Pogačar for Tour of Flanders

The Slovenian champion rode this Wednesday on several cobbled parts of Paris-Roubaix (13 April) and also of the Tour des Flandres (6 April).

The Slovenian will be accompanied by two cobblestone specialists: Tim Wellens and Nils Politt.

On 11 days of his first participation in Paris-Roubaix, Tadej Pogacar published on Wednesday in his Strava account the very impressive data of his training of the day. He broke three records of the application on a given section (KOM) and spun over 41 km/h on paved areas.

The Slovenian champion will try to double this Sunday.

Tadej Pogacar is going to taste the Hell of the North. While this was initially not planned for his programme, the Slovenian world champion decided to start the 122nd edition of Paris-Roubaix on Sunday 13 April. With the ambition to write a new page of his legend. In the 21st century, never a winner of the Tour de France had dared to line up at the start of Paris-Roubaix. It will therefore be a first with Tadej Pogacar. If for many it is a surpr…

'The team is very strong' - Narváez and Vermeersch join Tadej Pogačar for Tour of Flanders

Nils Politt, Mikkel Bjerg and Tim Wellens also in seven-rider squad to back world champion