Jasper Philipsen is expected to ride World Championships as Belgium's wild card
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Jasper Philipsen can prepare for his debut at the World Cycling Championships, reports Het Laatste Nieuws. The Alpecin-Deceuninck sprinter, who won the first three bunch sprints in this year's Tour de France, should book a place in the World Cup selection of national coach Sven Vanthourenhout.
Philipsen is seen by Vanthourenhout as an extra card to play in Scotland if it turns out to be a mass sprint at the world championship. The sprinter, the national coach and Alpecin-Deceuninck have reportedly spoken about this several times in recent weeks.
Normally, Belgium would be allowed to participate in the road race with eight riders, but Remco Evenepoel, as the defending champion, gets a guaranteed spot at the start. That is why Vanthourenhout can start with nine riders and that extra place will be for Philipsen. As a result, the Belgians will have three leaders with Evenepoel, Philipsen and Wout van Aert.
The full Belgian squad for the men's World Cup, scheduled for Sunday 6 August, will be announced during the final week of the Tour de France.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024