After winning the seventh world title in cyclocross, the Dutchman allowed himself a few days of relaxation on the snow of Valtellina. Sanremo, Flanders, Roubaix, then Tour de France; In September he will focus on the world title of Mountain Bike in Crans Montana in Switzerland
He allowed himself a few days of relaxation with his girlfriend Roxane in Valtellina and Livigno: he sciato and had fun in some test drives on the ice. Mathieu van der Poel, after the seventh world title in the cyclocross, wanted to free the mind before starting to think about the season on the road. And in Mountain Bike, we would add, because in September the goal of the Dutch phenomenal will not be the World Cup in Rwanda, the first that will take place in Africa, Sunday 28 September, but the one in MTB on Sunday 14 in Crans Montana. Yes, to add the title of the fat wheels, which he still lacks, to those on the road (Glasgow 2023), in the cyclocross (seven World Championships from 2015 to 2025) and in Gravel (2024).
here Italy
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The road program will open on Monday 10 March with the individual time trial of Lido di Camaiore to the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic, in which he left his mark with two spectacular successes in the 2021 edition. The race of the two seas, which will end on Sunday 16 March, The perfect finish in view of the 116th Milan-Sanremo, the classic spring on Saturday 22 March, is considered by Mathieu. Van der Poel has already won it in 2023, and in 2024 he was decisive for the success of his teammate Jasper Philipsen. Just in Sanremo there will be the duel of the giants with Tadej Pogacar, the Slovenian who chases her this time in the world jersey.
Between Belgium and France
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So Van der Poel will begin the North campaign: at the moment E3 Harelbeke are safe on March 28, the Tour of Flanders on April 6 and Paris-Roubaix on April 13th. At Flandere it aims at the fourth triumph after those of 2020, 2022 and 2024: nobody has ever won the Ronde four times. For his part, the Roubaix won it in 2023 and 2024
Tour de France and MTB
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In the summer, Van der Poel will return to the Tour de France: here in 2021 he won the stage of the Mur de Bretagne and dressed the yellow jersey for six days. Finally, everything for the Mountain Bike World Cup: already in recent weeks VDP had made it clear that it would not have gone to Africa to the World Cup in Rwanda, a very demanding route of over 5000 meters in altitude, very suitable for Pogacar. Instead, after the two negative experiences at the Olympiad 2021 and 2024 (fallen), Van der Poel wants to win his bet in mountain bike: world bronze in 2018 and European gold in 2019, the Dutchman focuses on the Swiss Crans Montana circuit for A world championship poker that testifies to its unique multifaceted.
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