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Belgian men's selection for Paris Olympic Games officially revealed! Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert in the lead
CyclingWednesday, 26 June 2024 at 12:41
The upcoming Tour de France might be the main topic of conversation in the cycling world at the moment, but straight after the biggest race on the calendar comes another huge target for many riders, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
One of those nations with arguably the biggest chance of claiming the gold medal in the men's elite road race will be Belgium, with two stars of the sport were already known to be competing in Paris, Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert. Now though, Belgian national coach, Sven Vanthourenhout has revealed the other two riders in the four man selection.
Joining the two standout gold medal contenders will be Lidl-Trek's Jasper Stuyven and van Aert's Team Visma | Lease a Bike's Tiesj Benoot. Given the immense strength in depth in Belgian there are also some notable absentees from the lineup, recently crowned Belgian national champion Arnaud De Lie, Jasper Philipsen and Thibau Nys spring to mind as much as any others.
As far as Evenepoel and van Aert go, the duo have struggled for fitness in recent months. Both saw their springs abruptly ended by crashes at the Itzulia Basque Country and Dwars door Vlaanderen respectively have seen both star riders suffer broken bones. Ahead of the Paris Olympics however, both Evenepoel and van Aert will be present at the 2024 Tour de France, although with differing goals.
For Evenepoel, on his Tour de France debut no less, the Soudal - Quick-Step leader have dreams of contending for the Maillot Jaune against the likes of Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic and the man van Aert will be working in the service for, Jonas Vingegaard. Thanks in part to van Aert's help, the Dane has won the Tour de France for the last two years and time will tell if it can be made a hat trick this time around.
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- I counted 16 riders under 24 out of 43 that started. Once was only 16 ! Two of the top riders are Zoe and Schreiber and both under 23 yet that have done 50 min races in the past with the elites so I think it's just bad clock management. Let them race 50 freakin' minutes! One more lap could have made a big dffierence most times in the podium and winner.frieders319-11-2024
- He needs to finish out his contract and then go hit MTB and Cross/Gravel really hard, that's where his heart is.awp18-11-2024
- Pidcock is starting to sound like Froome now.Sweep18-11-2024
- I think this was because there were junior women in the race. If a race has junior women am pretty sure it has to be less than 45 minutes. I believe a rule is coming in for next season that will fine organisers that don't put on a junior women's race a fine equivalent to the prize money. So fingers crossed we should see more longer elite and junior women's races from next season.NorrisHippocampe18-11-2024
- Of course he CAN. Big salary in cycling is not when you win but when they talk about you (and your team / sponsors). For every news about Jonas, MVdP or Wout there are 10 times more(!) news about Pidcock (like everyday for last 2 months?). Since cycling is advertising sport not competitive sport (in terms of from money comes from) Pidcock is winner and GOAT - change my mind. ;-)averagecyclist18-11-2024
- Why do the women CXs keep getting short changed with the length of theor races? They could have easily done another lap to put them at 50 minutes which is their time limit. Yet another CX race where they fail to reach this when they had a chance to. Come on ... the math isn't that hard to figure out lap times and divide into 50 min!frieders318-11-2024
- All pro cyclists are massively underpaid! The amount of riding and physical exertion they put their bodies through is crazy compared to other sports. I can't think of any other sport where you are physically active at a very high level of power output for hours on end each day.Pogboom17-11-2024
- When I was working for Starkist/Heinz my manager quit. So the next week my group was put under another manager. During our first meeting he asked if there was anything we needed to tell him. I said that I would be out the following week on vacation. He said "I don't know if I can let you go on vacation". I replied, "You can't tell if I can go. You can only tell me if I can come back".Sweep17-11-2024
- :-)Sweep17-11-2024
- What a mess there :-)
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