Mathieu van der Poel will be in april and would like to try to make up for the second year in a row, the Amstel Gold Race to win, but the 24-year-old Dutchman knows the with regard to his over-crowded season, by 2020, whether or not it’s a good idea to take the Hilly heuvelklassieker to drive.
“I will have a difficult choice to make,” said Van der Poel, on Friday in the Headquarters and the presentation of the team Alpecin-Phoenix. “By 2020, it would be more crowded than they are for 2019, and we have to be careful it’s not too much of it.
The all-rounder is, in any case, going to be a week ahead of the Amstel Gold Race on his debut in the Paris-Roubaix (april 12). “It’s when the other riders found that the combination of the Paris-Roubaix and the Amstel Gold Race is a tough one,” said Van der Poel. “But there’s something in me that has triggered that, and I want to prove that a program like this.”
“in any case, the Amstel Gold Race is a very special race, and it will always continue to be. So, whether or not the drive is of the ‘Amstel’ is one of the difficult decisions that I am will to take it.”
the Amstel Gold Race organiser Leo van Vliet, who, last year, his first winner since 2001, Erik Dekker got to celebrate it, it was Friday, too, in This and in the context of the interview, from the Pool to give him advice. “It is up to you to make that choice,” said the former racer. “Whether you do or do not ride the Amstel Gold Race, and no one questions your decision.”
Mathieu van der Poel (second from right), is located in the ploegpresentatie in addition to the managers, Philip (on the left) and Christophe Roodhooft. (Photo: NU.nl/Daan the paladin).
Roodhooft: ‘Also, Was is just a human’.
finally, The main conclusions of the ploegpresentatie of Alpecin-the Fenix, is that the wegprogramma of the Lake is still far from fixed. It is certain that it is up to the world cup on the 2nd of February in switzerland Dübendorf, fully focused on the cross, and that his primary goal by 2020 is to be at the end of July in Tokyo, the olympic champion on the mountain bike.
Due to the unique combination of the three wielerdisciplines at the highest level, ” Van der Poel, together with his team, think long and hard about the program, and also in the classics. “Mathieu will not go away,” stated Roodhooft. “We want to be cautious and to wait and see how he gets out that racing is. Also, Was is just a human being, and it may not always be, but, and, and, and are. It is important to make the point that you recognize that it’s just too much for you to be.”
“We do have a program for it Was, but we would like to target. Because we still don’t know how to feel about it a month or two months it feels like. It Is often in poor weather? He will have to deal with all the crashes? By 2019 it was a great season for us, but it was also because we had broken down.”
but Van der Poel admitted that he’s in 2020, it occasionally slowed down, it will have to be made. “If they ask me to race, I’m always the first one that says yes. But imagine, sometimes, that you might have a better idea of what peace could be used. Along with the team management, I will have my determination, and I think I’m on the way back to the twenty-to-thirty race days will be oddly will come to pass.”
See also the Special ‘hall of fame, Van der Poel is going to be in 2020, it is certainly over the top to be’ Alpecin-Phoenix has a wild need to use
to The program, the Pool is also depends on which of the wild cards Alpecin-the Fenix, will receive a WorldTour races, because if procontinentale team, the Belgian team in the biggest of matches are not guaranteed slots.
Alpecin-Phoenix, may, in any case, driving in six of the Flemish eendagskoersen, which is organised by the Flanders Classics (Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Brabantse pijl and the Tour of Catalonia (23-29 march).
at the request of the Italian RCS for the Strade Bianche (march 7), Tirreno-Adriatico (11-17 march) and Milan-San Remo (march 21), and the French organiser ASO for the Paris-Roubaix (april 12), the Flèche wallonne (april 22), and in the Netherlands, start-up stage of the Vuelta a España (August 14-september 6).
“We rely on the fact that the Paris-Roubaix ride with Mathieu” said Roodhooft. “Our request to the RCS, we don’t have to answer ‘no’ as an answer, but the RCS are struggling with the fact that they don’t get too many wild cards to have. If we get a wildcard for the Tirreno, we Was with it. If it does not, then he’s going to compete in training camp.”
as for the Amstel Gold Race, but needs to Alpecin-the Fenix is still a wild card to get in. Roodhooft: “the fact That it has mostly to do with the Leo’s from a Distance. If there is a guarantee on the in the presence Was the determining factor, it is uncertain as to whether that is going to happen. At this point, we can’t guarantee it, because we have access to Was not available seven days a week, which rates and prices.”
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