Harelbeke is the first Van Aert vs Van der Poel of the year
That photo, the one that illustrates the article, has an exact year: It is Wout Van Aert tras ganar en Harelbeke a Van der Poel y Pogacar al sprint.
It was one of the races of the year, a long-distance marvel of fire and faith in which Alix & Flecha I remember going crazy in a story that I remember fondly.
Harelbeke is the gateway to the beginning of spring, eight days from De Ronde and a couple of weeks from Paris-Roubaix, hesitation is not allowed.
The threshold of the good part of spring and the certainty that here you have to be “in your best” no matter what.
Wout Van Aert has been learning it year after year and has applied substantial changes.
We haven’t seen him since four weeks ago he was on the podium in Het Niuewsblad and winner in Kuurnea period that has passed concentrated at altitude.
He says that he hopes that the preparation will bear fruit at the earliest, he has overlooked two races that already appear in his record, such as Strade and San Remo, he has omitted Paris-Nice and Tirreno, in which for whatever reason he always was the protagonist.
The resignation is powerful, the changes, we already see, have taken him off the board in the prelude to his favorite era.
The moment of truth arrives, a drama in three acts that has its first station in Harelbeke.
Hand in hand, bareback, without detours, Van der Poel has the advantage over Van Aert But will the new preparation give the Belgian that extra?
I want to think that yes, that this year that cobblestone monument that resists him will fall, although it does not only require brute force to do so.
Wout Van Aert needs the team anticipatingburning the ships of his rival and his gregarious, but above all take the initiative and play against Van der Poel as Pogacar played him in San Remo, that is, always from the front, taking the initiative, taking him on the opposite foot.
I know it’s easy to write it, like that in a moment, but I can’t think of any other option, the Dutchman is accurate in big quotes and Harelbeke is the first.
Beating him, taking the lead, will be Wout’s great objective.
2024-03-24 12:20:49
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