{"id":194155,"date":"2023-10-23T19:47:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=194155"},"modified":"2023-10-23T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:47:14","slug":"who-are-the-favourites-to-win-the-2023-velo-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/10\/23\/who-are-the-favourites-to-win-the-2023-velo-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the Favourites to Win the 2023 V\u00e9lo\u00a0d\u2019Or?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates) and Lotte Kopecky (FD Worx) are favourites to win the 2023 V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or as the best riders of the year. The winners will be announced at a gala ceremony, rivaling that of football\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or, in Paris on Tuesday. The award is organized by the French cycling magazine V\u00e9lo and has been handed out to the men since 1992.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While no male rider dominated this year\u2019s WorldTour, Poga\u010dar is the favourite to succeed 2022\u2019s winner, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), on the strength of his winning the UCI World Rankings<\/a> for the season with 7,685.9 points, easily beating runner-up Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) who had 6,304.1 points. The 25-year-old Slovenian also won the season-ending Monument Il Lombardio, three spring Classics \u2013 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne<\/a>, the Amstel Gold Race and the Tour of Flanders \u2013 the Paris-Nice and the Vuelta a Andalucia.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, a broken wrist he suffered in a crash in the Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a> set back his preparations for the Tour de France, where he finished second, and the subsequent road world championships. But his bold Il Lombardia<\/a> victory will surely be fresh in the minds of the international journalists who elect the winners.<\/p>\n

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Poga\u010dar at the 2023 Il Lombardia. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A serious case could also be made for Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d, the longtime Jumbo-Visma rider who will compete for rival team BORA-Hansgrohe in 2024. Though Rogli\u010d finished fourth in the UCI rankings, with 5,603.4 points, he was undefeated for most of the year, winning the Giro d\u2019Italia, Tirrenno-Adriatico, Volta a Catalunya and Vuelta a Burgos before finishing third in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a when public pressure forced Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard to ride in support of teammate Sepp Kuss after the American had seized the GC lead and held it for much of the race. However, his third-place finish in the Il Lombardia, behind Poga\u010dar, will probably lead voters to support the Slovenian.<\/p>\n

There is an argument to be made as well for Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) who won world championships this year in both road racing and cyclocross as well as taking victories in the Paris-Roubaix and Milan-SanRemo but he has not raced enough on the WorldTour, ranking seventh in the UCI standings (4,163 points), to be a serious threat to Poga\u010dar. However, he is a dynamic and popular rider, and anything is possible in an election. Which means that perhaps his teammate Jasper Philipsen, who won four stages and the \u0160koda Green Jersey in the Tour de France \u2013 often being led out by van der Poel \u2013 as well as seven one-day races, has an outside chance. But don\u2019t bet on it.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s contest for the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or is much less debatable. Only two riders appear to have a chance to win the prestigious prize, which was first awarded last year to a female rider when it was given to the recently retired Annemiek van Vleuten following triumphs in the Tour de France Femmes, Giro d’Italia Donne and La Vuelta Femenina. This year\u2019s Tour de France Femmes winner Demi Wollering (SD Worx) has had a marvelous season, also winning four prestigious spring Classics: La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne<\/a>, the Amstel Gold Race, the Strade Bianche and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a>, and she sits atop the final UCI World Rankings<\/a> with 6,039.8 points, miles ahead of her teammate Kopecky who is second with 4,367 points.<\/p>\n

But numbers sometimes cloud the issue and Kopecky has, I believe, been the most impressive woman cyclist of the year, winning the Tour of Flanders, the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and, most importantly, the world championship road race in Glasgow, ahead of Vollering. She also finished second behind her teammate in the Tour, took away the Tour\u2019s \u0160koda Green Jersey and won two gold medals and a bronze at the 2023 track world championships. It will be tough to choose between the two friends and teammates but whoever ends up holding the trophy will be a deserving winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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