Weekend ‘cross wrap: Alvarado, van der Poel both double up
Alpecin-Fenix pair both took wins on Saturday and Sunday's races. Van Aert continued his strong comeback from injury with a fourth-place in Saturday's race.
Wout van Aert is a Belgian professional road and cyclo-cross racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. Van Aert is a three-time winner of the men’s race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, having won in consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Wikipedia
Wout van Aert is a Belgian professional road and cyclo-cross racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. Van Aert is a three-time winner of the men’s race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, having won in consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Wikipedia
Alpecin-Fenix pair both took wins on Saturday and Sunday's races. Van Aert continued his strong comeback from injury with a fourth-place in Saturday's race.
Dutch team Jumbo-Visma found ways to be competitive across the entire WorldTour schedule, from the classics and the sprints to grand tours.
Van Aert put in a strong performance to finish fifth in his first race since injury, but remains uncertain about starting 'cross world championships in February.
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Four days after the crash that knocked him out of the Tour de France, Wout van Aert recalls the confusing moments following the accident.
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Wout van Aert has been forced to abandon the Tour de France after suffering a scary crash in the final kilometers of Friday's individual time trial
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Stage 10 dished up chaos, as five of the top GC riders were caught out in the crosswinds. Van Aert sprinted to the win from a reduced lead group.
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Belgian star Wout van Aert takes his second stage win in 24 hours with a commanding sprint in Voiron
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Former world cyclocross champion Lars Boom says he regrets leaving 'cross behind for road racing when he committed to the Pro Tour.
Wout Van Aert dropped off the four-inch lip where the Roubaix velodrome’s concrete banking ends and the grass infield begins, then dropped his bike on the grass and dropped himself on his back, surrendering by every means available to the pull of gravity.
The legs were there for the cyclocross champion, but the fortune wasn't: Van Aert picks over a race that could have been.
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Classics up-and-comer Wout van Aert says he ran out of energy at the end of Flanders but criticizes Peter Sagan for disrupting the chase in the final kilometers.
Despite the hype following him into Belgium's biggest race, Wout van Aert keeps cool, insisting that the pressure he felt as 'cross world champion was greater.
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Jumbo-Visma is taking a patient approach to develop its young classics prodigy Wout van Aert, but he's already off to a fast start in 2019.
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Van Aert "more than ready for the Flemish classics" after Strade Bianche and Milano-Sanremo successes.
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Repeating his performance from 2018, van Aert says the second podium finish was harder than his first, and he dreams of winning in Tuscany.
Although Strade Bianche is merely 13 years old, three-time 'cross world champ Wout van Aert believes it belongs in the pantheon of major spring classics.
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Technical masterclass from the Dutchman denies second-place Van Aert a fourth consecutive world title.
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They have long been cyclocross rivals, but van Aert and van der Poel are also evenly matched as cycling's most versatile riders.
The Dutch-based team landed the three-time defending cyclocross world champ as he transitions to the road.
Van der Poel untouchable while error on the grid left Van Aert chasing from the start.
The Belgian is landing on his feet with Jumbo-Visma after a falling-out with former team Veranda's Willems-Crelan.
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Van der Poel wins in a faultless performance while Van Aert fights back from early crash to take second.
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Van der Poel rode a faultless race whilst second-place Van Aert blames a dropped chain
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The wet and muddy Strade Bianche and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships are on the menu for this week's show.
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Many riders were saying that the 2018 UCI World Cyclocross Championships were the hardest in years.
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Belgian Wout van Aert won a third straight elite men's world cyclocross championship on Sunday in Valkenburg, the Netherlands.
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Mathieu van der Poel seems to be the clear favorite, but will another rider beat him to the finish line in Valkenburg?
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