Alpecin-Phoenix, the team of Mathieu van der Poel, has Tuesday's wild-cards for the heuvelklassiekers Flèche wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
It is highly unlikely that Van der Poel will be starting in Liège-Bastogne-Liège (april 26). The 25-year-old Dutchman is open to the public to participate in the Flèche wallonne (april 22). "If you didn't, and I would be happy to take it," said MVDP' at the beginning of this year.
Alpecin-Phoenix is not a world tour team and participation in large courses, depending on wild cards. The Belgian team was given Monday by the ASO, the French organizer of the Flèche wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, has already sent an invitation to the Paris-Roubaix, a race that Van der Poel is definitely going to drive it.
Alpecin-Phoenix is sure of participation in the Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Catalonia, the Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Brabantse pijl.
It is not at all clear as to how the season of the Pond is going to look like. The all-rounders up to the end of the world cup on the 2nd of February in switzerland Dübendorf still in the middle of cross-country. After that racing will, as he, along with his team to the final choice.
but Van der Poel and Alpecin-Phoenix will have to guard against overload-in the classics, as the Dutchman was, in July, of olympic champion on the mountain bike would be.
See also The cycling calendar, 2020
Date Of Update: 21 January 2020, 13:00
