It’s a busy EUROTRASH with loads to get through this Thursday – News form the Olympic Games and everything else from the peloton:
Olympic news: Mathieu van der Poel doesn’t have to worry about teenage girls in Paris, Remco Evenepoel, Wout van Aert and the Belgian team are preparing for the Olympic road race, Tom Pidcock aims for double gold at the Olympic Games, Mattias Skjelmose wants to ride in the same team as Jonas Vingegaard one day and the Belgian coach behind INEOS Grenadiers’ Olympic mountain bike success.
Soudal Quick-Step puts two new Monuments on Remco Evenepoel’s programme for 2025, Olympic champion Tom Pidcock could be on the market before 2025, Olympic MTB Champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will now focus on the Tour de France Femmes, Remco Evenepoel is considering riding the Tour of Britain in preparation for the World Championships, Jay Vine Medical update, another year for Nairo Quintana with Movistar, Lawson Craddock announces retirement, Coryn Labecki suddenly retires, Charlotte Kool has doubts for the Tour de France Femmes, Triathlete Kristian Blummenfelt wants to win the Tour de France in 2028 and Victor Campenaerts thinks it’s possible.
Team news: Matteo Moschetti discharged from hospital after training incident, Max Poole makes his comeback after four months, Christian Scaroni stays with Astana Qazaqstan, Corbin Strong set to stay with IPT through to 2026, Giovanni Aleotti extends contract with Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, Corbin Strong set to stay with IPT through to 2026, the next races for Team dsm-firmenich-PostNL and Lotto will continue next season without Dstny.
Race news: Arctic Race of Norway 2024: Spectacle in view in Nordland and sixth stage of la Vuelta a España to start in a supermarket.
EUROTRASH Olympic coffee time
Mathieu van der Poel and Dylan van Baarle joined the Dutch team for the Olympic road race on Saturday in Paris. Time trialist, Daan Hoole, stayed in the hotel of the Dutch team, west of Paris in the ‘middle of nowhere’ after his TT last weekend. Raymond Kerckhoffs reported in the Dutch website, WielerFlits on the national team’s hotel arrangements for the Olympics Games.
Far away from Paris and also far removed from the Olympic feeling. The cyclists of the Netherlands team who will be racing in the Olympic Games are housed in the Hotel Centre Port-Royal in the peace of the forests of the Chevreuse valley. It is about a 45-minute drive from the city centre to get to the hotel, which has been decorated with orange banners and bean bags and red, white and blue stickers.
The entire hotel has been rented by Team NL for the cycling teams. Onlookers are kept at a distance. If you drive onto the hotel grounds, two security guards will immediately rush out. The road, track, BMX and mountain bikers can enjoy peace and quiet, and three of those groups also have their venues nearby in Saint-Yvelinnes. Far away from civilisation, Mathieu van der Poel, Harrie Lavreysen, Marianne Vos and the others, don’t have to worry about situations such as in the run-up to the World championships in Wollongong, Australia, when teenage girls kept ‘MVDP’ awake the night before the championship race. There is no chance of anyone bothering the cyclists.
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