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Mathieu van der Poel!


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Could it be that his father is "Die Muishond"?

 

(The thing is that his father is human)

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He apparently wants to win 3 rainbow jersey's in one year. (CX, XCO and RR). CX and XCO are very doable but I think RR will be the hardest. He already has CX and is Dutch XCO and RR champ but clearly this is not enough.

 

 

He is doing the XCO worlds in canada. but probably not the Roadrace.

Problem is timing.

 

XCO MSA/canada 1 Sept

CX Iowa 14 Sept

CX washington 22 Sept

RR yorkshire 29 sept

Tokyo test event 6 Oct

 

He can't do all of these races, and as 2020/olympics is the big focus I don't think it's worth throwing the road race in the mix there.

 

 

 

https://www.velonews.com/2019/04/news/could-van-der-poel-hold-all-three-worlds-titles-simultaneously_492996

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Basically what PFR did a few seasons ago?

Except it's much harder to do it in the men's field as the talent is spread so much wider.

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He is doing the XCO worlds in canada. but probably not the Roadrace.

Problem is timing.

 

XCO MSA/canada 1 Sept

CX Iowa 14 Sept

CX washington 22 Sept

RR yorkshire 29 sept

Tokyo test event 6 Oct

 

He can't do all of these races, and as 2020/olympics is the big focus I don't think it's worth throwing the road race in the mix there.

 

 

 

https://www.velonews.com/2019/04/news/could-van-der-poel-hold-all-three-worlds-titles-simultaneously_492996

He didn't ride the Cx races in the US in the previous Cx season - and still won the Cx WC. So he can forego them again.

 

So to do the XCO in MSA in early Sept and the RR on the 29th seems doable for a guy of his talents.

 

He already qualified for Tokyo, so the test event is exactly that - a tester.

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I just wish all the CX World Cup events could be moved to Red Bull TV

 

GCN has been free web casting quite a lot of the CX events. World Cups are broadcaast by the UCI on YouTube but there are region 'issues' which can be overcome.

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Form is transient

Class is permanent

 

Best to make use of the form whiles its there. He'll be the forst male to hold all three titles won't he? 

Pauline Ferrand Prevot already achieved this in the ladies field in was it 2015 or 2016?

Pauline held all 3 at the same time, but she actually won the Road title in 2014 an the other 2 in 2015.

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Looks like she is a race car driver.

And he is known for his love of all things fast cars.

 

According to Google, works in Porsche’s marketing department

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