With the Maasmechelen-Hoogerheide duo we won the final round of the World Cup last weekend, so the cyclo-cross season is coming to an end. The World Cup will follow next Sunday, but this world championship apparently did not come at the right time for Thibau Nys.
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Not the desired feeling
Nys’s disappointment was clear after Hoogerheide, where he was left out of the podium for the second day in a row. “This is a big disappointment. I’ve had it for a while. I don’t have much to say about it,” said a disillusioned Nys.
But of course the chatty Balenaar told us a little more about his performance, but mainly about his feelings. After two weeks of training in Spain, he hoped to be at his best for the World Cup, but that turned out not to be the case.
He honestly admitted to Het Laatste Nieuws: “I don’t have the feeling that I have found them”, it still sounds disturbing. “My gear was certainly okay, because I might have been able to drive away from it every lap. But I also realized that it would only last half a lap. I couldn’t shift two teeth higher and pull through. I could do that at the beginning of the season.”
Straighten the back
It is clear: doubts have crept into Nys’s mind, but he immediately tried to straighten out a few hours after the match. “In any case, I am going to the World Cup with ambition and I will try to be 100 percent ready for it,” he said. “Fully charged and with slightly fresher legs than now. I’m not going to do much in the coming week, just keep the engine running.”
“That will be fine, I’m not afraid of that. I still have a few days to train myself mentally. I don’t know how, but… Just don’t think about the race anymore. And… eat fries tonight!”
