168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu Van der Poel will continue to race cyclocross and target the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI World Championships at least into 2025 with the goal of eq♛ualling, or even bettering, the seven rainbow jerseys won by Eric De V▨laeminck driving him on in the cold and mud of the European winter.

For 2024, however, the chance of two gold medals in the road race and mountain bike at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris Olympic Games is the Dutchman’s north star and will de൲cide if or how he rides the Tour de France.  

Van der Poel looks unbeatable this winter and is dominating the Kerstperiode battles of the big three, having beaten 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout van Aert and/or Tom Pidcock in all four races he has r💛aced so far. 

He is the only one of the trio confirmed to ride the World Championships in the Czech c🌸ity of Tabor on February 4 and he'll be taking aim at rainbow jersey number six. Eric De Vlaeminck won his seven titles between 1966 and 1973. Van der Poel’s seventh could come in early 2025.  

"It's one of the reasons why I still race cyclocross," van der Poel told La Gazzetta dello Sport 🌞during an exclᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚusive interview published on Thursday.    

After 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:winning in Gavere on December 26, van der Poel faces an intense New Year campaign, riding the evening Telenet Superprestige race in Diegem on Thursday, the Azencross in Loenhout on Saturday, the World Cup in Hulst, in the Netherlands on December 30 and then the X&s🐼up2;O Badkamers Trofee GP Sven Nys on New Year’s Day. 

His Kerstperiode block of nine races also includes the X²O Badkamers Trofee Vlaamse Duinencross in Koksijde on January 4 and then the Zonhoven World Cup on January 7𓂃. He will then clash with Van Aert one last time in the Benidorm World Cup race in Spain on January 1, before the World Championships on February 4. &🦄nbsp; 

Van Aert scratched Zonhoven from his race sch🦄edule but recently confirmed he will e🐭nd his cyclocross campaign in Benidorm to focus on and stay fresh for an intense spring of training and racing. Van der Poel, meanwhile, is convinced he can combine cyclocross racing with his pre-season road training. 

"I know what Wout means but cyclocross is still a good way of preparing for my road season and the Worlds is still an objective," he said. "I don't know how I'll think♍ about that in the years to come. Things will perhaps change."

Van der Poel prefers to di🐻vide his racing and his training into blocks, to give him mental and physical separation and perhaps create barriers against external expectations and pressure.

He will surely defend his rainbow stripes at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Zürich Road World Championships in 2024 but that is far too far off to worry about and comes after his cyclocross campaign, the spring Classics, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France aꩵnd a likely – but still to-be-confirmed – mountain bike and road race combo at the Paris Olympics in the summer.

"I'm focused on a sixth cyclocross world title, I'm not thinking about anything else," he explained.  "I'll worry about planning the rest of my seas𓄧on after that. For sure the ꦉOlympics are the north star of my 2024 season.

"We've got to study the best path to Paris, perhaps combining it with the Tour de France, it's a difficult puzzle to work out. I still haven't decided if I'll just ride the r⛄oad race (on August 3) or the mountain bike race (on July 29) or both."  

Van der Poel won Milano-San Remo and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix in 2023 and was only beaten by Tadej Pogačar at the Tour of Flanders. 

"My ambitions in the Classiꦕcs won't change," he confirmed. "After that, I'll see how my form is and if it's good, there's a chance I could ride Liege-Bastogne-Liege." 

With a packed New Year cyclocross calendar, Van der Poel will have little time for celebrations but has a sꦰimple wish for himself and the wor🙈ld.   

"I just want to enjoy my year in the rainbow jersey and confirm all tꦺhe good things I did in 2023," he said. "If I look beyond the world of sport, there's no doubt: I can onl𝔉y wish for peace in the world."