Wout van Aert reveals extent of knee injury in Instagram post
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Wout van Aert has made his debut in the cyclocross season this past week in Loenhout and it marked the return after three months sidelined from competition. A year marked by bad luck, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider ended his season prematurely with a brutal crash at the Vuelta a España. He has now shown how the knee currently looks.
In an Instagram post, the Belgian rider has shown several clips and pictures taken in the final week of the year, one of them being of his current gym work on the right leg. In September, van Aert crashed on the final week of the Vuelta a España in a wet descent and was forced to abandon the race with a deep wound.
He did not suffer fractures as a result, but the wound could've been infected so he stayed several days in the hospital as a precaution before flying home. He had issues running for a while which forced him to start the CX season late, and his first race was also delayed as he got ill right before the Zilvermeercross Mol.
Next spring he will once again aim for the cobbled classics, trying to bring home his first monument in either the Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix, something he's come very close in the past but was often met with a stronger rival - usually the figure of Mathieu van der Poel.
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- Jonas and Tadej were only a few seconds apart at the end of the second week of the 2023 Tour, and looked equally tired. But on the last rest day Jonas stated, as if it were a fact, that the Tour would be won by minutes, not seconds. Which was prophetic, as the very next day he blew Tadej away, so to speak. Visma has often said that Jonas's main strength is his ability to stick exactly to their carefully laid plan. While UAE value Tadej's gift for improvising, though that has sometimes spectacularly backfired. It is two very different styles competing, in two very different riders.Hill3303-01-2025
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maria2024202403-01-2025 - Tadej shouldn’t have won 2020 Tadej “easily” won 2021, the fact he didn’t win 2022 can only be attributed to “himself”. We can discuss the reasons ad infinitum and it’s probably a mix of many but it’s an insult to say JV shouldn’t have won it. Tadej had no useable excuse not to win it if he was better, If his 2023 loss by 7.5 minutes was due to injury related preparation, it is an insult to suggest Jonas 6 minute 2024 loss was not also likely due to the same. Granted, TP might have won by even more had he not done the Giro. Until now, these guys are as equal as can be as far as TdF terrain goes, TP has the ascendant but like most other sports rivalries (WVA being unlucky not to be able to continue wrt MVDP) there tends to be a yoyo or swing effect, we can only know once they next meet and should be happy about it, Jonas is the only one that stops Tadej being “boring” as some moaners vent.Mistermaumau03-01-2025
- Jonas is an exceptional climber, maybe the best. Having said this, lucky is part of the live. He had the lucky: 1- to be part of a fantastic team 2- strategic errors of a very young Tadej (2022) with weak team 3- not a good preparation in 2023 because crash/surgery. Tadej could get on bike again only 2 weeks before the start of the Tour 2023, he couldn't prove the TT at all, decisive stage. After lost 1.38 minutes Tadej psychologically collapsed and lost the tour.maria2024202403-01-2025
- More riders? You mean one more rider.MrCampy03-01-2025
- I don’t get why so many need to “prove” that one is superior to the other, it is obvious that within margins and periodic fluctuations they are/were different but equal on TdF terrain. Any 2 riders sharing 4 wins in 4 years with just a few minutes after 80 hours can’t be so different that it’s worth making a fuss over unless it’s about something else. You may as well argue over the taste of caviar vs. fish roe, it makes zero difference which taste you prefer, especially if you’re the one eating. TP seems to have gained an advantage but it can also turn against him, JV is now the mysterious “underdog”, let’s enjoy the show if neither has mishaps, and watch out for the third man lurking behind.Mistermaumau03-01-2025
- I know! It’s those little words that make all the difference, some, probably, etc. I haven’t seen a modern contract, just suggesting what some of those pros pass on as casual information.Mistermaumau03-01-2025
- I agree with your explanation as to why Jonas won when he may not yet have been the better Tour rider .... but for sure Jonas and Visma will already have planned how to win the yellow jersey back. Visma said a couple of months ago that their problem would be simply making sure Jonas did not peak too soon.Hill3303-01-2025
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- Jonas is good but his wins were due to Visma team tactics and Pogacar riding naively, in one case, and Pogacar not being fully prepared, on the second occasion. Pogacar (and UAE) have become smarter tactically - far less wasted energy and more protection for the team leader - since 2022, and barring further injury or illness for Tadej it's hard to see Jonas winning another Tour.Renz03-01-2025