We will no longer see Mathieu van der Poel in the field this winter, Wout van Aert put an end to his cross story at the Belgian Championships yesterday and other tenors are also pruning their program towards the World Cup.
The Dutch selections for Sunday’s World Cup cross in Flamanville were announced today. Lars van der Haar is missing from the men, who became Dutch champion yesterday.
His colleague with the women, Marianne Vos, also skips a weekend. That was also the decision of world champion and leader Lucinda Brand. Annemarie Worst also sends her cat.
It cannot be ruled out that more cancellations will follow. With the men, Eli Iserbyt is already certain of the overall win and he had already announced that the early victory gave options in his program towards the World Cup.
