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Mathieu van der Poel on wild attacks, 2023 Tour de France hopes and Wout van Aert rivalry

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is hoping a reduced schedule will see him win again at the Tour de France later this year. The Dutchman wore the yellow jersey for six stages at the 2021 Tour after claiming the second stage, but he failed to add to his haul in 2022 after arriving overcooked following an explosive Giro d’Italia debut.

Ad Van der Poel grabbed the maglia rosa after winning the opening stage at the Giro before lighting up the race with a series of madcap one-man attacks, which were exciting for punters, but failed to yield any more victories. Ronde van VlaanderenTour of Flanders 2023: Key info ahead of Van der Poel v Van Aert3 HOURS AGO Undeterred, Van der Poel headed to the Tour one month later, but quickly faded as a force as arch-rival Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) grabbed the headlines with his stunning role as super-domestique in Jonas Vingegaard’s GC triumph.

Speaking to the Eurosport GCN Cycling Show, which returns on Tuesday, March 28 on Eurosport 1 at 17:30-18:00 BST – and on-demand on discovery+ – Van der Poel spoke about his ambition to make it to Paris for the first time this summer after recording back-to-back DNFs at the Tour. “For sure we try to make it a bit easier than last year, of course, because there's only one Grand Tour which already makes a big difference,” said Van der Poel.

“So it will be a bit the same on the road as I did two years ago with the Italian races. And then I had the Classics in Belgium and then I will go from Tour de Suisse to the Tour de France.

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