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Gonna do MTB races.tobydawq said:jaylew said:His results this spring bode well for those looking for him to focus more on the road. The fact that the races he's done have been exciting and aggressive definitely helps. I'm guessing he'll do the mtb thing through the Olympics, then just focus on cross and road for a few years. He's certainly proven that he can easily combine a full cross season with a spring classics campaign so no team will make him go the Stybar/Boom route.
I know he's under contract with Correndon through 2022, but you've got to think a WT team will buy him out or maybe more likely, Correndon will gain sponsors and step up to WT at some point. Whatever happens, I don't see him still racing for a Pro Conti team in 2022.
A shame we won't see him at Worlds as it should be a good course for him.
Why do we think we will not see him there?
Bardamu said:Gonna do MTB races.tobydawq said:jaylew said:His results this spring bode well for those looking for him to focus more on the road. The fact that the races he's done have been exciting and aggressive definitely helps. I'm guessing he'll do the mtb thing through the Olympics, then just focus on cross and road for a few years. He's certainly proven that he can easily combine a full cross season with a spring classics campaign so no team will make him go the Stybar/Boom route.
I know he's under contract with Correndon through 2022, but you've got to think a WT team will buy him out or maybe more likely, Correndon will gain sponsors and step up to WT at some point. Whatever happens, I don't see him still racing for a Pro Conti team in 2022.
A shame we won't see him at Worlds as it should be a good course for him.
Why do we think we will not see him there?
I suppose he could always change his mind but Amstel was to be his last road race of the year to focus on the MTB world cups in prep for the Olympics next year. Unless he has a complete change of heart, I figure the best chance we have of seeing him on the road again this year is defending his title at Dutch nats.tobydawq said:jaylew said:His results this spring bode well for those looking for him to focus more on the road. The fact that the races he's done have been exciting and aggressive definitely helps. I'm guessing he'll do the mtb thing through the Olympics, then just focus on cross and road for a few years. He's certainly proven that he can easily combine a full cross season with a spring classics campaign so no team will make him go the Stybar/Boom route.
I know he's under contract with Correndon through 2022, but you've got to think a WT team will buy him out or maybe more likely, Correndon will gain sponsors and step up to WT at some point. Whatever happens, I don't see him still racing for a Pro Conti team in 2022.
A shame we won't see him at Worlds as it should be a good course for him.
Why do we think we will not see him there?
Interesting. I hadn't heard that, though I'd love to see him there. Do you have a link?Dekker_Tifosi said:MTB races has nothing to do with the worlds Jawlew
In fact, the national coach already talked with MvdP about Yorkshire. There's already a 90% chance he is going to participate.
Gigs_98 said:Everyone was talking about him not riding PR and how he might have lost a golden opportunity for the win there, but retrospectively the much bigger deal is probably that he missed MSR becuase while in PR everything can happen I have a hard time seeing a scenario other than a badly timed mechanical or crash that could have kept him from winning there.
Red Rick said:Okay now he would've won every single one day race had he been there good to know.
He'll get Sagan'd all the time from now on.tobydawq said:Red Rick said:Okay now he would've won every single one day race had he been there good to know.
Yes. He would of course also have won Flanders without his crash.
Maybe somewhere along the road people would have realised they would have to do something about it, though...
And then MTB gold in 2020 Olympics, Road in 2024 and by 2028 Cyclocross is also an Olympic discipline?fauniera said:He could become world champion in cross, mountain bike and on the road. In one year. Just saying.
YeahBardamu said:And then MTB gold in 2020 Olympics, Road in 2024 and by 2028 Cyclocross is also an Olympic discipline?fauniera said:He could become world champion in cross, mountain bike and on the road. In one year. Just saying.
armchairclimber said:The rest of the WT peloton might as well just give up. Ridiculous performance. Up with Froome's 90km solo effort and Cancellara's casual riding of everyone off his wheel.
More likely by 2026 but yeahBardamu said:And then MTB gold in 2020 Olympics, Road in 2024 and by 2028 Cyclocross is also an Olympic discipline?fauniera said:He could become world champion in cross, mountain bike and on the road. In one year. Just saying.
jaylew said:Interesting. I hadn't heard that, though I'd love to see him there. Do you have a link?Dekker_Tifosi said:MTB races has nothing to do with the worlds Jawlew
In fact, the national coach already talked with MvdP about Yorkshire. There's already a 90% chance he is going to participate.
I heard Ajax informed if they can borrow Vd Poel for the CL semi finals. He'll probably score 7 goals singlehandedly dribbling from defense to attack. And the national tennis coach informed wether he'd be available for the Davis Cup.Red Rick said:YeahBardamu said:And then MTB gold in 2020 Olympics, Road in 2024 and by 2028 Cyclocross is also an Olympic discipline?fauniera said:He could become world champion in cross, mountain bike and on the road. In one year. Just saying.
And then he could focus on speed skating cause it's the Dutch thing to do and he'll win 5 gold medals.