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BILBAO, Spain : Tadej Pogacar has named Jonas Vingegaard as the big favourite for the Tour de France, but the defending champion would not be drawn into mind games two days before the race starts on Saturday.
Wout van Aert says he isn’t feeling in top shape ahead of his bid for Paris-Roubaix glory on Sunday as the Belgian continues to recover from a nasty crash at the Tour of Flanders. The Jumbo-Visma rider finished fourth at last weekend's cobbled Classic and was left with a bloodied knee after going down with 141km remaining. Ad Van Aert is expected to face off with rival Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) at the hotly anticipated 120th edition of the ‘Hell of the North’ Monument in northern France.
Team Jumbo-Visma will be without Dylan van Baarle for the Tour of Flanders on Sunday. The 30-year-old is “struggling with physical problems, and has been unable to get fit in time,” a team statement confirmed on Thursday. Ad Van Baarle came second in the Tour of Flanders last year, but was excluded from Jumbo-Visma’s lineup for Sunday’s race following a crash at the E3 Saxo Classic last Friday.
Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) won Gent-Wevelgem after a dominant display from his Dutch super team in sodden conditions. The 34-year-old stormed clear on the penultimate ascent of the Kemmelberg alongside team-mate Wout van Aert. And the pair stayed away – holding a near two-minute advantage over the chasing pack into Wevelgem – in an astonishing show of dominance.
Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) saw off a bunch of big-hitters in an electric uphill finish on Stage 4 at Tirreno-Adriatico, just minutes after team-mate Wout van Aert and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) had collided and crashed. In an appetiser for Friday’s summit finish in Sarnano-Sassotetto, Roglic proved the strongest on the final slog to see off the fast-finishing Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-QuickStep) and Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates).
Dylan van Baarle took a magnificent solo victory on his Jumbo-Visma debut as the 2023 spring Classics began in style at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The Dutchman, who switched to Jumbo from Ineos Grenadiers over the winter, proved too strong for his supporting cast, riding them off his back wheel one after another.
Three-time world champion Wout Van Aert lit up a freezing cold afternoon at the Sports Ireland Campus in Abbotstown, Dublin as he claimed round nine of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup before a 5,000-strong crowd - the first event of its kind in this country.
It's the big one. The last big one of the season, at any rate. The World Championship road race means the opportunity to sport the iconic rainbow bands for an entire season, and a rainbow trim on every jersey worn for the rest of their career.