Mathieu van der Poel will be in two weeks, do not start in the Tour of Catalonia. The program of the 25-year-old rider is still not at all sure of that.
but Van der Poel is currently working with the team Alpecin-Phoenix at the training camp in Spain. There, he is back in full training after illness, including Omloop het Nieuwsblad at the end of last month, had to miss out on.
"It's going to be reasonable, Was", said team manager Christoph Roodhooft Tuesday at WielerFlits. "He's still not in great shape, but that's the logical thing to do. Mathieu has been a full week of being ill, you will have a little more. But that's not a big problem. It's been a couple of weeks into the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix."
Due to his illness, and by the outbreak of the corona virus that the programs of the Lake in the direction of the great classics at the last minute. He then collaborated with his team to not start in the Tour of Catalunya (23rd-30th march), while the Italian classics, Strade Bianche (march 7), and the Milan-San Remo (21 march) was cancelled.
Alpecin-Phoenix the following week and slots in the Nokere Curonian (Wednesday), and the GP Denain Thursday, and is the Bredene, Koksijde at the belgian coast Classic (Friday only). The Tour of Flanders, which is scheduled for april 5 and Paris-Roubaix, on 12 april, all the results of the corona virus are also among them a feeling of uncertainty.
it is still unclear whether or not the Tour of Catalonia, a passage could be found, given that the government has decided that all of the sporting events in the country, and in any case within the next two weeks, people need to be refinished.
See also The cycling calendar, 2020
Date Of Update: 10 March 2020, 21:00
