Lidl-Trek (France) - Press Release: A blank canvas awaits! Eight Lidl-Trek riders for this year’s Tour de France

Inspired by a famous artist of the region, Lidl-Trek is proud to introduce the eight Lidl-Trek riders that will head to Lille for the Grand Depart of this year’s Tour de France on Saturday (5 July):

Simone Consonni (ITA, 30): One participation, 2020

Jonathan Milan (ITA, 24): Tour de France debut

Thibau Nys (BEL, 22): Tour de France and Grand Tour debut

Quinn Simmons (USA, 24): Two participations, 2022 & 2023

Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, 24): One Participation, 2023

Toms Skujins (LAT, 34): Six participations, 2018-2022 & 2024

Jasper Stuyven (BEL, 33): Eight participations, 2016 & 2018-2024

Edward Theuns (BEL, 34): Four participations, 2016, 2018, 2020 & 2021

What did our Head Sports Director, Steven de Jongh say about the rider roster?

"We have an ambitious Tour de France team for 2025 with multiple goals that we want to fulfil over the upcoming three weeks of racing in France. Mattias Skjelmose will aim for the General Classification while Jonathan Milan will make his first appearance at the Tour de France for this year's sprint stages, especially stage one, which, of course, is super important.

There is the opportunity to win the first yellow jersey of the race and Jonny will have his lead out train with him: Jasper Stuyven, Edward Theuns and Simone Consonni. We have seen how well this group works together and they will take care of the lead out. Quinn Simmons, who is coming into the race off the back of a really great stage win at Tour de Suisse, will be the team's dedicated puller. So, he has to ride a lot of kilometers in front to make it possible to have a sprint while, Toms Skujins will do final positioning and he will also take care of Mattias.

Then, finally we have Thibau Nys making a big step up by racing the Tour de France as his first-ever Grand Tour and there are definitely stages along the way that can suit him. The complete group has not raced a lot together but I am confident that we can make it work and have a great race and keep the momentum from an incredible Giro d'Italia going."