"I thought he was remarkably brave yesterday" - Michel Wuyts lauds praise onto Wout van Aert despite the Belgian missing out on the Rainbow Jersey

Similarly to the Cyclocross World Championship earlier this year, Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert were the top two competitors in the Glasgow road race. Sadly for the Belgian, it was also the same result, van der Poel winning.

"You could say it's getting more and more difficult, although I thought he was remarkably brave yesterday that he still did everything he could to finish second and knock those whoppers out of the wheel," said Belgian, Sporza, analyst, Michel Wuyts post-race. praising van Aert's fighting spirit. "That indicates he can still handle it, but it's not easy."

Losing out on a World Championship title to van der Poel for the second time in the year, Wuyts feels his fellow Belgian may have met his match. "It is now the case that if he enters the duel, he loses," Wuyts laments. "There was not even a duel yesterday. But if he has to duel with van der Poel, van Aert will get beat three out of four times."

"Van Aert is largely abandoned as a one-day rider and as a stage hijacker. I withdraw my words somewhat about him as a one-day rider, because he is well surrounded. But then he collides with superior people, such as a Tadej Pogacar who was excellently prepared for the spring and van der Poel, who peaks much more than he ever did," Wuyts concludes. "Should Van Aert drop his cross season? Should he say to his team: I'm not riding the Tour anymore."