I think that the Jumbo is not the main drag on Van Aert’s progress
Several things are clear about Wout Van Aert’s present, with or without Jumbo in the review.
I see him as an active and clear part of that big 6, even when his results have not been the best.
However, the option of seeing him out of the yellow team weighs heavily, right now the best in the world.
The other day when I talked about the gap that had opened up between him and Van der Poel, in favor of the latter, many people took the moonlighting job that Wout Van Aert has been assigned to the Jumbo Visma.
Although it is a sweet theory, I just did not see it.
In the balance with Mathieu, Van Aert is a more complete cyclist with more records, basically everything he does well
The Belgian is a coconut wherever he steps, he impresses and intimidates, but to say that he is conditioned by his team is to simplify things a lot.
Van Aert works for third parties during various periods of the seasonbut at specific moments, as he did with Roglic in a Paris-Nice or Vingegaard himself in the Tour.
It is necessary to be in the best team in the world, situations that, for example, did not prevent him from winning three stages in each of the two previous Tours.
This year in the Tour, Van Aert has not won stages but he chose to do so.
It happens that the competition in France has been brutal, proof of this is that Van der Poel did not smell them either
The Belgian has been the best gregarious for Vingegaard, but if the Dane were not there, he would still be on top for the best race.
Not surprisingly, the Tour, nothing less than the Tour, has been the race in which we have found the best version of Van Aert, and not just for one year, but for several.
The problem is that outside of here, where he is measured against his archrival, Van Aert does not perform as we have expected him to do for months.
Being well in the Tour does not condition him to go for it all in the spring, on the contrary, there is the bid for the cobblestones and other great races.
Jumbo has culminated great collective performances in the classics -see Van Baarle in the Het Nieuwsblad-, but with Van Aert he always lacks a littleWe saw him in Roubaix, in Flanders, races to which he was, by the way, excellently surrounded by running in a structure like the one he is in.
Benoot, Van Baarle, Van Hooydonck y Laporte corren a su lado.
I don’t see that the team is the problem because of the moonlighting they have, although perhaps because of the mentalityor perhaps because Van Aert no longer progresses in this structure.
In this case a timely exit, although I don’t know if viable, would be to see Wout in the hosts of Soudala “mental straw” for which he would pay money.
Everyone who has entered the blue structure has oiled in the big ones this spring, they are cobblestone experts and right now they don’t have a winning horse.
If the option from Remco to Ineos takes the road, we could contemplate One step from Van Aert to chez Lefevere?
If in Jumbo, Van Aert has everything, structure and gallons, perhaps something else that has to do with mentality is failing.
If Lefevere’s teams stand out in one thing, it is in the collective power to defeat individualities, he has competed and won against great monsters the size of Peter Sagan or Van der Poel himself, two years ago in Flanders.
Just imagine it….
2023-08-15 12:36:23
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