{"id":260225,"date":"2025-11-03T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:33:12","slug":"people-love-the-champions-league-why-worldtour-promotion-could-be-gamechanger-for-uno-x-and-their-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260225\/","title":{"rendered":"‘People love the Champions League’; why WorldTour promotion could be gamechanger for Uno-X and their stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Abrahamsen<\/a> managed to follow up his good Tour performance in the 2024 edition last year with a stage win in Toulouse. On that footing, the 30-year-old Norwegian is all too eager to continue next year, after he didn’t quite pan out last spring. IDLProCycling had a conversation with Abrahamsen.<\/p>\n

These days in Trondheim, Uno-X is holding the open and team days towards 2026, which will be anything but a special year in the team’s history. For the first time the Norwegian formation is part of the WorldTour, partly due to Abrahamsen’s good performance in recent years.<\/p>\n

‘It is very important for Norwegian – and by extension Scandinavian – cycling,’ points out the hard rider. ‘People love the Champions League, the highest level. There’s a lot of talk about it, in Norway.’<\/p>\n

Abrahamsen thinks the entire Uno-X team can hitch a ride on the move. ”It’s very good for the rest of the team. The past two years we rode one grand tour, but now a lot more riders can ride a grand tour. And that’s good for the development of the team. Our calendar expands a lot, whereas before we had to pick our races.”<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n

\"abrahamsen-schmid\"\/Abrahamsen wants to go for Tour AND Vuelta, but focus on classics first<\/p>\n

It also makes a difference for Abrahamsen himself, “I would be up for a combination of Tour and Vuelta. To include the Giro, as a classc type of rider, is probably a bit too much of a good thing. Then you do the classics, Giro \u00e1nd Tour.’<\/p>\n

‘So my preference would be the Vuelta, but first I want to show myself in the classics. Also in races like Strade Bianche and Milan-Sanremo, but definitely Flanders and Roubaix. I’m really going to those races with a lot of ambition.’<\/p>\n

In the Tour de France , he<\/a> sees slightly fewer opportunities<\/a> than last season. ‘In the last two weeks I do see some opportunities for us punchy riders. Which stage suits me best, I can’t say right now. But I think I’m going to focus a bit more on the last two weeks, as I did – unintentionally – this year.’<\/p>\n

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