MVDP and Wout have their unique strengths (relative to each other), but they meet in the middle in CX and in 1 day classics. And to this point, MVDP has proven to be superior in those arenas. I'm an MVDP fan, but at this point I think it is fair to say he just has more of champion's mentality (killer instinct and willingness to risk losing to win) mentality than Wout. And as strong as Wout is, he just doesn't have MVDP's freakish explosiveness that allows him to get separation and win bike races against the very best in the world when they are all in for the win. He also doesn't have MVDP's handle which buys him seconds that add up. All that said, Wout is has proven to be the more versatile road racer which counts for a lot. Doesn't get much more freakish than winning a TT, Ventoux, Champs Elysees in one TDF.
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I think his parents put coffee instead of milk in his bottle when he was a baby.
WVA is officially not participating in the Giro
But he can make his own sandwich again, so there's that:
View: https://twitter.com/WoutvanAert/status/1778397650259185821
(they're mocking the Belgian media, who are even reporting when he farted)
View: https://twitter.com/WoutvanAert/status/1778397650259185821
(they're mocking the Belgian media, who are even reporting when he farted)
This is great. What are the chances that he takes aim at the tour and shows up guns blazing, while ving is forced by circumstance to have a go at the Vuelta instead? That would be my personal dream scenario. Free Wout!!
WvA with free reign to do whatever he wants in the TdF could be very entertaining, as long as he's at 100%.
That's insofar as he's not working for a leader of course.
That's insofar as he's not working for a leader of course.
Sad for Wout. I wonder how big of a mental blow he suffered from this. Hoping he will be back to 100%.
Giro will be much the poorer for Wout's absence. But I'm optimistic that Wout can potentially return for the Tour or Vuelta and shine at the WC/Olympics.
I keep the belief that riding the Tour is the best preparation that Van Aert can have for the Olympics who I guess is now the priority for him.
However, this depends on how fast Vingegaard recovers because apparently he doesn't want to do hard domestique duty for him and the Vuelta has several hilly/medium mountain stages that should suit him really well and should give a good preparation for the Worlds as long as he doesn't have to do too much work for Vingegaard.
However, this depends on how fast Vingegaard recovers because apparently he doesn't want to do hard domestique duty for him and the Vuelta has several hilly/medium mountain stages that should suit him really well and should give a good preparation for the Worlds as long as he doesn't have to do too much work for Vingegaard.
I don't ever want to see Wout wasting his talents working for Vingo or for anyone else, honestly.
I think the Vuelta will be his only GT this year.
In before Van Aert is too good a rider to work for
I think he will ride the Tour with an eye to the Olympics. He can get in shape during the Grande Boucle and be a protagonist on the last week of the race winning a stage considering he is versatile.
La Vuelta could be the best warm up for the World Championships. A free and an unchained Wout Van Aert would be absolutely worth to watch it. He has many stages where he can put his sign on.
La Vuelta could be the best warm up for the World Championships. A free and an unchained Wout Van Aert would be absolutely worth to watch it. He has many stages where he can put his sign on.
I hope he won't ride the tour, to nervous a race. His real goals are the world and especially the Olympics this year, there are other ways to prepare for that. However the facts that Laporte rides the Giro worries me. Maybe they have been switched around.
How is helping your team win the biggest race in the world wasting your talent?
No one remembers helpers. Team sport yes, but individual winners take the prize and go in history books.
Sure, but people do remember Wout's performances in the Tour. And I also think they will in 10 years.
One gets a parade in their home country. The other has to read about that parade in the news.
Wva is a bigger talent than Vingo. I just said it. Yet, managment plugges Wout into a wattage plan last year for a lesser talent to win the overall of the biggest race on the calendar
Wout minus 10kg and retaining same watts would be a disgusting cyclist
With all this talk about the worlds and olympics how will Belgium play it with Remco and Jasper Philipsen presumably wanting protected status,
He definitely is! Yet I guess Visma/himself didn’t want to go down the starvation route… At the Tour Vingo clearly has/had a better chance
It's so unrealistic it's even boring to think about
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