"It is certainly not a good preparation for the time trial, but it is for the road race," the now retired 38-year-old says in quotes collected by
Wielerrevue. "I give him a one percent chance of winning a gold medal in the time trial. I think Wout will make a goal of the road race and can get a medal in the time trial, the bronze. But Olympic gold is virtually out of the question in that time trial."
Currently training hard at altitude in Tignes alongside fellow Team Visma | Lease a Bike crash victims Jonas Vingegaard and Christophe Laporte among others, van Aert recently shared a monster ride to his official Strava account, putting in over seven hours, the Belgian superstar rode for a grand total of 188.5km, taking in a massive elevation gain of 4,860 metres in the process. It was also recently revealed that van Aert won't be taking part in the time-trial at the upcoming Belgian National Championships.
