In Gavere, Belgium, three out of three of the season for the world champion who, however, is not happy: “I wasn’t concentrated”. Loenhout’s first clash with Wout, after returning from the flu
Three out of three. On the very tough route in Gavere, Belgium, with the mud reaching up to the bike’s gearbox, Mathieu Van der Poel updates his monster statistics in cyclocross: third victory of the season after those of Zonhoven and Mol, the fortieth in the World Cup and success number 165 in cyclocross. Yet the champion of the Alpecin-Deceuninck took a couple of laps before getting ready and taking off: “I wasn’t too concentrated, I made too many mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes, and so I told myself that I had to concentrate more”, explained VdP , which will celebrate 30 years on January 19th. Behind him, two Belgians: Michael Vanthourenhout at 26” and Thibau Nys at 41”. First Italian Gioele Bertolini, 23rd at 5’20”.
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The climate of cyclocross is now becoming even hotter: tomorrow in Loenhout, still in Belgium, the Flemish Wout Van Aert will also take to the field, making his seasonal debut after a slight flu. It will be the first clash with Van der Poel, a rivalry that has marked the last ten years of this specialty: nine World Championships won out of ten, six Van der Poel and three Van Aert, with the exception of 2022 when Pidcock won in the United States in the absence of two phenomena.
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