‘I have no doubt that I will be back at the same level as three years ago’ – Christophe Laporte puts illnesses behind him to take aim at spring Classics

This spring, Christophe Laporte is aiming to put the nightmare of the past two spring Classics campaigns behind him and race again as a co-leader with Visma-Lease a Bike.

The Frenchman won Gent-Wevelgem and Dwars door Vlaanderen in 2023 but suffered from illness during the spring of 2024, ruling him out of the biggest races, and then had much of his 2025 season ruined by a bout of Cytomegalovirus.