Cian Uijtdebroeks continues to fight "the dull feeling" in his legs. That means no
Tour de Romandie for the Belgian climber this week. The 22-year-old has been removed from the startlist by his team at last moment. The team chooses to let our compatriot train again without pressure against .
Uijtdebroeks was already forced to skip the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali in March due to this "dull feeling" in his legs that haunts him since last year's Vuelta a Espana.
The Belgian was on the preliminary selection of Visma | Lease a Bike, but his name was crossed out at a last minute and replaced by Dan McLay.
Things already seemed to be moving in the right direction for Uijtdebroeks at the Tour du Doubs (22nd) two weeks ago, but since then the improvement wasn't such as he would have liked. The Dutch team therefore lets its young climber continue his fight against this lingering problem at his own pace and we'll see if Uijtdebroeks finally returns for his next
I wonder if the agent who said Vuelta 2023 would be his peak knew something that others didn't.
I don’t think anyone knows anything but it was a good guess to expect his problem would be very complex to solve and so he’d be unlikely to really compete at the highest level, just by basing his logic on the information available.