Teams & Riders Official Wout Van Aert thread

[Moose McKnuckles]

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.

 

[KZD]

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.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I don't ever want to see Wout wasting his talents working for Vingo or for anyone else, honestly.

 

[Netserk]

I think the Vuelta will be his only GT this year.

 

[Red Rick]

I think the Vuelta will be his only GT this year.

In before Van Aert is too good a rider to work for Roglic Vingegaard in The Tour La Vuelta

 

[MortiroloForever]

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.

 

[Kwaremonster]

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.

 

[jaylew]

I don't ever want to see Wout wasting his talents working for Vingo or for anyone else, honestly.

How is helping your team win the biggest race in the world wasting your talent?

 

[Gargamel35]

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.

 

[Volderke]

No one remembers helpers. Team sport yes, but individual winners take the prize and go in history books.

We all remember Landa.

 

[tobydawq]

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.

 

[scribers]

How is helping your team win the biggest race in the world wasting your talent?

One gets a parade in their home country. The other has to read about that parade in the news.

 

[scribers]

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

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

With all this talk about the worlds and olympics how will Belgium play it with Remco and Jasper Philipsen presumably wanting protected status,

 

[Red Rick]

With all this talk about the worlds and olympics how will Belgium play it with Remco and Jasper Philipsen presumably wanting protected status,

Philipsen? After Glasgow?

 

[Barkintheeye]

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

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

 

[Red Rick]

Wout minus 10kg and retaining same watts would be a disgusting cyclist

It's so unrealistic it's even boring to think about

 

[velaso montador]

Wva is a bigger talent than Vingo. I just said it.

This is true for me too. Make no mistakes about it, Wva is no where near Vdp level in pure power or strenght, flats or whatever in my opinion in classics, Vdp is simply on another level thats pretty clear for me over the years but Wva is for me aswell a bigger talent than Vinge.

Wva in a team in a GT wheres the stages are not that hard as classics/monuments in a team he can hunt stages whenever he wants the entire grand tour would be a beatiful thing to watch and would play right into his talent. Jack of all trades at a insane high level!

 

[Hugh Januss]

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

This is apples and oranges. Wout has the same chance of ever winning the TDF as Vingo does of winning a cobbled classic or cyclocross WC.
Though to be fair Wout has a better chance of winning TDF than Van der Poel.

 

[Berniece]

With all this talk about the worlds and olympics how will Belgium play it with Remco and Jasper Philipsen presumably wanting protected status,

2 options. Being 4 leaders and everyone rides for themselves, or bring Benoot and Lampaert

 

[scribers]

This is apples and oranges. Wout has the same chance of ever winning the TDF as Vingo does of winning a cobbled classic or cyclocross WC.
Though to be fair Wout has a better chance of winning TDF than Van der Poel.

For sure, but that wasn't the point I was making. Wout was used as a watt machine to get Vingo a win. What did wout come away with and what has he accomplished the last 2 years + this year? Not near what we should expect from him. He dictates every race he is in and is always a factor.

 

[scribers]

This is true for me too. Make no mistakes about it, Wva is no where near Vdp level in pure power or strenght, flats or whatever in my opinion in classics, Vdp is simply on another level thats pretty clear for me over the years but Wva is for me aswell a bigger talent than Vinge.

Wva in a team in a GT wheres the stages are not that hard as classics/monuments in a team he can hunt stages whenever he wants the entire grand tour would be a beatiful thing to watch and would play right into his talent. Jack of all trades at a insane high level!

Right! Even him stage hunting on all terrains and contesting for the green jersey was fabulous to watch.

 

[Blanco]

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

Nope.

 

[scribers]

BIGGER