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Wout van Aert and Remco Evenepoel headline Belgium's Olympic Games shortlist - "It will certainly be a very interesting and atypical race"
CyclingTuesday, 28 November 2023 at 15:00
The 2024 Olympic Games are slowly coming along and national teams begin to make their plans. The Belgians have already created a shortlist for the men's events, and it will be a difficult choice as only four riders can make it into the road race where chaos is expected. Among those figures are both Wout van Aert and Remco Evenepoel.
"We have already spoken to their management. Both have indicated that they want to prepare for the Olympic time trial," team national coach Sven Vanthourenhout told Cyclingnews. "It will certainly be a very interesting and atypical race, with a field of 90 riders for a race of more than 270 kilometers. Twenty riders can, so to speak, pull away after three turns and the race can be finished. I wouldn't compare the course to that of the World Championships in Glasgow, but the feeling will be the same."
The list also features Lotte Kopecky on the women's side who could very well be the main favourite to take the title, as she did at the recent Glasgow World Championships. Both on the road, track and other disciplines, the nation has good chances of bringing in several medals.
Shortlist for Belgium men's Olympic Games:
Wout van Aert, Tim Wellens, Florian Vermeersch, Edward Theuns, Jasper Stuyven, Alec Segaert, Jasper Philipsen, Yves Lampaert, Quinten Hermans, Frederik Frison, Remco Evenepoel, Arnaud De Lie, Tim Declercq, Jasper De Buyst, Victor Campenaerts and Tiesj Benoot.
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- He needs to finish out his contract and then go hit MTB and Cross/Gravel really hard, that's where his heart is.awp18-11-2024
- Pidcock is starting to sound like Froome now.Sweep18-11-2024
- I think this was because there were junior women in the race. If a race has junior women am pretty sure it has to be less than 45 minutes. I believe a rule is coming in for next season that will fine organisers that don't put on a junior women's race a fine equivalent to the prize money. So fingers crossed we should see more longer elite and junior women's races from next season.NorrisHippocampe18-11-2024
- Of course he CAN. Big salary in cycling is not when you win but when they talk about you (and your team / sponsors). For every news about Jonas, MVdP or Wout there are 10 times more(!) news about Pidcock (like everyday for last 2 months?). Since cycling is advertising sport not competitive sport (in terms of from money comes from) Pidcock is winner and GOAT - change my mind. ;-)averagecyclist18-11-2024
- Why do the women CXs keep getting short changed with the length of theor races? They could have easily done another lap to put them at 50 minutes which is their time limit. Yet another CX race where they fail to reach this when they had a chance to. Come on ... the math isn't that hard to figure out lap times and divide into 50 min!frieders318-11-2024
- All pro cyclists are massively underpaid! The amount of riding and physical exertion they put their bodies through is crazy compared to other sports. I can't think of any other sport where you are physically active at a very high level of power output for hours on end each day.Pogboom17-11-2024
- When I was working for Starkist/Heinz my manager quit. So the next week my group was put under another manager. During our first meeting he asked if there was anything we needed to tell him. I said that I would be out the following week on vacation. He said "I don't know if I can let you go on vacation". I replied, "You can't tell if I can go. You can only tell me if I can come back".Sweep17-11-2024
- :-)Sweep17-11-2024
- What a mess there :-)
DareDevil17-11-2024