Teams & Riders Official Wout Van Aert thread

[Ricco']

WVA's streak of top-5 placings in WT and big championship races since his last WT win (E3 2023).

2-4-3-3-3-2-5-2-5-3-2-3-2-5-3-2-3-3-3-4-2-2

 

[jmdirt]

Solid sprint today WvA!

 

[QueenStagiaire]

He rode in the perfect way to ensure that he doesn‘t get to fight for the win today. This was never going to come down to a bunch sprint and yet he didn‘t try anything uphill. Very frustrating

 

[Valv.Piti]

He rode in the perfect way to ensure that he doesn‘t get to fight for the win today. This was never going to come down to a bunch sprint and yet he didn‘t try anything uphill. Very frustrating

He didn't have the legs, but could still have tried to be a bit more proactive maybe, but its very hard when youre this marked on top of not being in great shape.

 

[Oldermanish]

He didn't have the legs, but could still have tried to be a bit more proactive maybe, but its very hard when youre this marked on top of not being in great shape.

It's also pointless when you have a teammate up the road that's covered every move. Concede for his sake and control the field behind by setting false tempo and shutting down bridge attempts to your mate.
Visma got nothing out of the effort today.

 

[Offline]

If cycling was about being 2nd or 3rd he would be the best in the world.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Mostly 2nd.

I was shocked when Ganna suddenly went much faster than him.

Tactical slowdown by mighty Wout not to be 2nd again.

 

[Berniece]

Didn’t expect this from him at all after seeing how he ride in TDF. He should be very happy

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Didn’t expect this from him at all after seeing how he ride in TDF. He should be very happy

Yeah, i didn't expect him on the podium, and while he needed Tarling to have a mechanical, he did do much better than i assumed he would.

 

[Pantani_lives]

With the Hôtel des Invalides in the background he proved that he's a fighter. In the past he's often been unhappy with silver, but today he was happy with bronze.

 

[Sciatic]

With the Hôtel des Invalides in the background he proved that he's a fighter. In the past he's often been unhappy with silver, but today he was happy with bronze.

Agreed. Thanks for mentioning it was the Invalides but wasn’t sure.

 

[Penninepeddler]

Since the start of 2023:

7x Wins (22.6% of podiums)
10x 2nds (32.3% of podiums)
14x 3rds (45.2% of podiums)

We need to reconsider the whole 2nd place Wout thing...

Before 2023:

39x Wins (44.8% of podiums)
28x 2nds (32.2% of podiums)
20x 3rds (23.0% of podiums)

actually incredibly beautiful inverted numbers. Like you could not do that if you tried even playing a ping-pong tournament with your family.

Still gets the same amount of 2nd places as ever... but wins vs 3rd have flipped.

The Bronze Belgian is more apt recently than Mr. Second Place aha.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

“I think this is part of my character. [You] have moments when you don't want it anymore but then the next day you want to try it again,”
“My only talent is riding a bike. There’s just a deep desire inside myself to keep on trying..."

Wout reported in https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/do...-wout-van-aert-win-olympic-time-trial-bronze/

 

[Peyroteo94]

He is such a loser. Where is his winning mentality? He is always playing the team player card and no one helps him winning sh#t. He should leave Visma and should stop racing with Remco. He neevr gets the chance to fight for the win.

 

[kingjr]

He is such a loser. Where is his winning mentality? He is always playing the team player card and no one helps him winning sh#t. He should leave Visma and should stop racing with Remco. He neevr gets the chance to fight for the win.

I don't know that he was strong enough to win himself.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I don't know that he was strong enough to win himself.

The problem is we never know because he never gets the opportunity to fight for the win. He was the only rider able to follow MVP, not Remco. If Pogacar was here, Remco would not win this race because MVP would go alone with him and WVA. Remco is overachieving because WVA is always blocking the race for him so all races play in Remco's strenghts.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

He is such a loser. Where is his winning mentality? He is always playing the team player card and no one helps him winning sh#t. He should leave Visma and should stop racing with Remco. He neevr gets the chance to fight for the win.

This is nonsense. Last year in Glasgow Wout was the main man for the Belgium team and Remco did the early attacks as he had no chance. Same with Visma in the big races, his problem is just that VdP is slightly better than him.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Could have gotten bronze easily, prolly the 2nd strongest rider in the race, but crashed and played the faithful teammate. Bittersweet once again, but thats how it is being a WVA these days unfortunately

 

[Didinho]

This is nonsense. Last year in Glasgow Wout was the main man for the Belgium team and Remco did the early attacks as he had no chance. Same with Visma in the big races, his problem is just that VdP is slightly better than him.

Remco also road 200km for Wout in Leuven WC.

 

[noob]

Just gotta say for all the flak he gets; he's a good teammate.

 

[Peter von]

Just gotta say for all the flak he gets; he's a good teammate.

Indeed. No radio is perfect excuse to « forget » he has Remco up the road, several riders clearly lost control of who was where during the race.

On another day MVP,Jorgensen and Pedersen elevators Wut back into G1 and he wins the sprint or MVP is awake to cancel Remco’s attack.

 

[noob]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819781802476642810

View: https://x.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1819781802476642810


Is he becoming the new Kelderman? :O

 

[MJR]

Stellar teammate today, for sure, but you gotta be disappointed with that last crash.

We're well into the "if he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all" phase. I hope this changes soon.

 

[Barkintheeye]

The problem is we never know because he never gets the opportunity to fight for the win. He was the only rider able to follow MVP, not Remco. If Pogacar was here, Remco would not win this race because MVP would go alone with him and WVA. Remco is overachieving because WVA is always blocking the race for him so all races play in Remco's strenghts.

Some truth to that yet… MVDP hasn’t looked on his best this year despite his wins in Ronde and P-R. He did an okay race at LBL but since then very bleak. And then Wout has slowly pieced himself back again but only just that. It would be a very sad day for cycling if these two begin to fade away this early in their careers but clearly they are both not at their best. Should they regain their peaks riders like Remco will not have much to do at races like MSR, SB, RVV and PR and will have serious issues on eg LBL. Only Pog will be a real contender. I would love to see WVA get a big win soon!

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819781802476642810

View: https://x.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1819781802476642810

So he was with Vacek, VDP and Pidcock, and not with Alaphilippe when he crashed as I’m sure I read somewhere else. Ala was in the group that fought for the bronze on the final km, Pidcock, VDP and Vacek never made it there.
never a good thing to crash, but also a small positive that the crash didn’t affect his medal chance.