{"id":223204,"date":"2025-10-24T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:24:09","slug":"the-stars-are-aligning-for-the-unibet-rose-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223204\/","title":{"rendered":"The stars are aligning for the Unibet Rose Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having switched nationality for 2025, and signed sprinter Dylan Groenewegen and climber Wout Poels, the Rockets are in pole position for a Tour de France wildcard \u2013 only missing a big French name.<\/p>\n

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In keeping with recent trends, very few top riders were in attendance for this week\u2019s Tour de France presentation in the French capital\u2019s Palais des Congr\u00e8s; there was no Tadej Poga\u010dar, no Jonas Vingegaard, and no Florian Lipowitz, thus making a clean sweep of non-appearances from this year\u2019s podium. Nor did Remco Evenepoel make the trip, or 2025 green jersey winner Jonathan Milan. In comparison, ProTeams were well represented, with Michael Storer and Matteo Trentin there for Tudor, as well as TotalEnergies riders Anthony Turgis and Sandy Dujardin. But who was best represented of all? The newly monikered Unibet Rose Rockets, who sent Luk\u00e1\u0161 Kubi\u0161, Adrien Maire and new signing Dylan Groenewegen, along with team management Bas Tietema, Devin van der Wiel and GM Josse Wester.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows that it’s important to us,\u201d Tietema told IDL ProCycling<\/a> of his team\u2019s trip to Paris. \u201cDylan had just returned from [holiday in] Cura\u00e7ao, and Luk\u00e1s had planned his vacation to Egypt around it, so it’s an important event for us. We took it very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

The once-Dutch ProTeam has never raced a Grand Tour of any nationality, but three years on from their 2023 launch, it now looks very likely that Bas Tietema\u2019s ambitious squad will make their debut in France next summer via wildcard. And if it does, it will be as a home-country team.<\/p>\n

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