Mathieu van der Poel will start at the mountain bike at the end of 25 May in the World Cup in Nove Mesto in the Czech Republic. That is stated in the program that the Alpecin-Deceuninck team has announced. For Van der Poel it is the only mountain bike competition before he starts preparing for the Tour de France.
Only after the Tour, which ends in Lille on July 5 and ends in Paris on July 27, will the rider from Hoogerheide again focus on mountain biking. The program of the winner of Milan – Sanremo and Paris -Roubaix will be announced later.
In fact, on Sunday, May 18, Mathieu van der Poel would also participate in a mountain bike competition in Heubach, Germany, but he doesn’t appear at the start. From 23 to 25 May in the Czech Republic.
World championship
Mathieu van der Poel skips the World Cup cycling on the road in Rwanda in September. The 30-year-old rider from Hoogerheide shifts his focus after the Tour de France on the World Cup Mountainbike in September.
The rider thinks he doesn’t have a chance to win a new rainbow jersey on the road because the course in Rwanda is not losing him. He does not yet have a world title at mountain biking and he would like to add it to his honors list.