Filippo Ganna has taken a prestigious Strava report from Remco Evenepoel in a present of kind as he prepares for his 2025 season debut on the Étoile de Bessèges in France on Wednesday.
Ganna has three main targets for 2025: Milan-San Remo, Pars-Roubaix and a stage on the Tour de France.
“This isn’t the time to decide on, that is the time to win,” Ganna informed La Gazzetta dello Sport in early January. “This would be the aim for subsequent season, to win as a lot as doable.”
Ganna has put apart his observe racing ambitions after the Paris Olympics and desires to begin the 2025 highway season aggressively.
His Strava report searching in Spain on the weekend suggests he’s engaged on the facility and climbing means wanted to struggle for victory at Milan-San Remo. He was second behind solo attacker Mathieu van der Poel in 2023 and was a part of the Tadej Pogačar-inspired assault in 2024.
Ganna spent a lot of January in Gran Canaria after which joined his Ineos Grenadiers teammates for a coaching camp in Spain’s Costa Blanca.
Riders use the Coll de Rates and different climbs within the space close to Calpe and Dénia for testing and managed coaching.
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Pogačar smashed the celebrated Coll de Rates report in December in an organised effort with a number of UAE Team Emirates teammates on the finish of a coaching camp.
Ganna broke the report for the south method to the Colle de Rates, often called ‘Tarbena climb to Rates’. It is 4.97km lengthy with a mean gradient of 5.6%.
Ganna’s weight is listed at 83kg however used his immense energy to beat Evenpoel’s time by a single second, setting a time of 10:10 for the climb.
During the identical experience, he additionally took the 11.19km gradual ‘Benigembla to Castels’, taking the Strava report from Lennert Teugels and bumping Evenepoel down to 3rd place.
Ineos have promised to race extra aggressively as they try to achieve success in 2025, with Egan Bernal additionally claiming a Strava report in Colombia as he works on his early-season kind.
He set a brand new report of 14:39 for the 5.9km Belisario-Patios climb, using at a mean velocity of 24.2 km/hour and 360 watts at altitude above the Colombian capital Bogotá.
“For these of you who dwell within the capital or have accomplished this climb, you already know there’s something particular about it. If you breathe biking, it is likely one of the hardest climbs on the planet and as we speak I lastly managed to enhance the perfect time – after a number of makes an attempt,” Bernal wrote on Instagram on the weekend.