i hope so, that's if he can escape UAE and test negative...
If he can't and has to stay 2 weeks or something this could ruin his entire spring.
If he can't and has to stay 2 weeks or something this could ruin his entire spring.
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Apparently not. Looks like we might get to see him there after all. Best of all worlds - we get to see him win a great race in the echelons AND race Omloop.Doubt MVDP will be riding Omloop - He will need to self isolate for 7 to 10 as a close contact.
Apparently not. Looks like we might get to see him there after all. Best of all worlds - we get to see him win a great race in the echelons AND race Omloop.
Mathieu Van der Poel heads home for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Rickaert, Vermeersch but not Dutch champion came in close contact with COVID-19 positive stafferwww.cyclingnews.com
Would've been surprising if they had isolated him and ruin his first part of the season just beacuse one of the staff members getting a positive result from a very doubtedly reliable covid test.A surprising decision but the medical authorities have far more expertise than me.
Would've been surprising if they had isolated him and ruin his first part of the season just beacuse one of the staff members getting a positive result from a very doubtedly reliable covid test.
Remember for example the story of Matthews being thrown out of the Giro because of positive test?
According to this article he will be riding for Merlier so I think it could be getting Merlier and Philipsen their shots too. VdP gets all the other big classics so why not use it as a warm-up for the big shows. Alpecin-Fenix seems to be committed to developing all their riders instead of just Mathieu.
I really hope he wins and wins well. His Le Samyn finish was a classic Rope-a-dope setup for a teammate that is truly brilliant. MVP!I think we'll gonna see a famous edition of the Strade Bianchi. A fight between (ex)cyclocrossers. With the two top favorites Alaphilippe en Van der Poel. With Van Aert coming down the Tenerife mountain Teide (but without prior competition, so not a top favorite). With Pidcock. I think the others (Van Avermaet, Benoot, Formolo, Fughlsang, Bettiol en co) will be good too, but will have to recognize their superior in the final.
I know, but the past year there was a lot of speculation about him moving to a WT team with the same bike supplier.no reason to move to a WT team either.
Current team gets invites to all WT races and they can chose what they ride. And he can combine it with MTB and CX.
So like i said in the Strade topic, his handlebar was probably damaged during KBK when he hit a car on the side the handlebar would break two days later.
Something i've noticed a few times now in multiple interviews/talkshows, is that his dad has a tendency to talk about "us", "we" and "our team", when he talks about Alpecin Fenix. I think all three van der Poels are very well integrated within the team, and i can't easily see them break up. I mean, it doesn't seem like Mathieu moving to any of the big WT teams is happening any time soon.