At the 2023
Tour de France,
Mathieu van der Poel was used primarily in a leadout role for his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate and eventual Green Jersey winner, Jasper Philipsen. This time around however, will the world champion may get more chances for himself?
According to Sporza's Belgian cycling expert,
Jose De Cauwer, the 2024 Tour de France could be van der Poel's time to shine. "It will be the same, but he will now want to win a stage in the Tour. He's going to try things, he's going to try to win the gravel stage," De Cauwer says in conversation with Sporza Daily. "Although he's not going to mark a stage right away, because he's mainly going to see what happens. He probably hasn't read the roadbook from front to back yet. A Philipsen might have, but not Van der Poel."
