Mathieu van der Poel doesn’t think he will, next year, if successful, it will be like in 2019. The world champion in cyclo-cross was booked on Monday, when the There are a Cross in Bredene, his 28th victory in 29 veldritten this year.
“It’s been a unique year,” commented Van der Poel, at the Very after end of the race this year. “I’m afraid I don’t yet have the experience, all I want to do that, of course. It was really, really enjoy it.”
The 24-year-old Van der Poel won in Bredene are the sixteenth day of cyclocross this year. He was the fifth of eight laps away from his medevluchter, Tim Merlier and held that the Belgian ended up being more than a minute behind him. Nevertheless, the European champion, it will not be easy.
“It was a great cross, but it was a hard course”, he said. “It was because of the heavy duty line with many of the deep wounds not easy to see all the good lines.”
In the second-to-last lap, Van der Poel, and even in the fall, but that he could not be kept from the enemy. “That crash was my own fault. You could have the best of the setting sun, but it had to be me.”
Mathieu van der Poel was in Bredene, in a class of its own. (Photo: Pro-Shots).
Van der Poel, the winner of this year’s 28 veldritten
In total, the same as many as 28 victories in cyclo-cross. It was the second time a world champion, win the European title and took the overall victory at both the world cup and if the DIB Insurance is a Trophy.
on the way, it was Van der Poel, and this year has been highly successful. He won the Amstel Gold Race, Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Brabantse pijl. The bike he rode in the European championship, and three of the wereldbekerzeges.
in the Following years, the mountain bike race at the summer Olympics in Tokyo, its primary purpose will be for the first time, at the start of Paris-Roubaix. “What I’m hoping for by 2020? I would like to have as much success, but the most important thing is to stay strong and healthy”, he concluded.
