The Belgian Wout Van Aert It started its cyclocross campaign with success, with the aim of preparing its road season, winning the Exact Cross alone in a small competition in Essen, near Antwerp.
In the absence of his two main competitors in the discipline, the Dutch Mathieu van der Poel and the British Tom Pidcock, the three-time world champion of the discipline defeated his compatriots Jens Adams and Thijss Aerts.
Unlike previous years, the team runner Jumbo-Vismawhich will keep this designation until December 31 to become Visma-Lease a Bike, will not make cyclocross a priority, preferring to take advantage of its appearances in this discipline to be well in the spring for its purposes on the road , the classic Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia, which should be preferred to the Tour de France.
“I consider cyclocross as an added value, a kind of intermediate goal in the winter that allows the preparation to break down. Making an intensive effort constitutes good training,” explained the Flemish runner before traveling to Spain for a ten-day period with the team. Jumbo-Visma road race before competing again in seven cyclocross events between December 22 and January 4.
Source: La Verdad
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