The Movistar team wants to continue with its good dynamics in the Flanders Classicsa territory that has historically been hostile to it, and in which in this 2023 they are giving a great version with the performances of Matteo Jorgenson and Iván García Cortina in the E3 Saxo Classic, and second place for Oier Lazkano in Through Flanders.
The three riders will be Movistar’s great assets for the second monument of the season, the Tour of Flanders, which takes place this Sunday, as confirmed by the team itself this Thursday. Movistar wants to stand out in a race in which stars like Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu Van der Poel or Wout Van Aert start as the main candidates for victory.
Together with Jorgenson, Cortina and Lazkano, The German Juri Hollmann, the Danish Mathias Norsgaard, the Swiss Johan Jacobs and the Spanish Iván Romeo complete the team. in search of a historic performance by Movistar in Flanders, where they will try to find a Top-10 that they have not achieved since Alejandro Valverde’s eighth place in 2019.
Van Vleuten, for his last Tour of Flanders
Movistar also starts with serious chances of winning in the women’s Tour of Flanders race, where Annemiek Van Vleuten will seek victory in her last presence in ‘De Ronde’ as a professional cyclist.
Van Vleuten will be supported by a powerful team for the classics in which he stands out the presence of Floortje Mackaij, Arlenis Sierra, Liane Lippert, Sheyla Gutiérrez and Aude Biannic.
Aranburu and Guerreiro, leaders in the GP Indurain
The Movistar team has also announced this Thursday its line-up for the ‘home classic’, the Miguel Indurain Grand Prix, which will be held this Saturday in Navarra, and for which Alex Aranburu and Ruben Guerreiro start as team leaders in the last appointment before the start of the Tour of the Basque Country next Monday.
Along with Aranburu and Guerreiro, Gorka Izagirre, Gonzalo Serrano, Sergio Samitier, Jorge Arcas and Nelson Oliveira will compete in a test in which Movistar wants to rule at home against the rest of the UCI World Tour squads that will start in Estella.