No Wout van Aert-Mathieu van der Poel showdown at Super 8 Classic as Belgian withdraws
𒆙Jumbo-Visma announce that Belgian 'is not completely fit' ahead of Saturday's race

The mooted late-season showdown between 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout van Aert at Saturday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Super 8 Classic won't be taking place after the Belgian pulled out🤡 of the race.
After winning a stage and the overall at the recent Tour of Britain, Van Aert was slated to start the 203.6km race in Brakel to continue his build-up to the UEC Road European Championships and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Gravel World Championships.
Howeve⛄r, his Jumbo-Visma team announced💯 on Friday morning that Van Aert wouldn't be racing as he "is not completely fit".
"Wout van Aert was originally also scheduled to start in the Super 8 Classic, but he is not completely fit," Jumbo🎶-Visma stated on Twitter.
"He is no👍w focusing on his other goals in꧃ the final part of the season."
Van Aert, who turned 29 on Friday, will next race in the time trial (September 20) and road race (September 24) at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Road European Championships before heading to Italy and the Coppa Bernocchi (October 2) and Gran Piemonte (October 5) ahead of the Gravel Worlds near T♔reviso (October 8).
The series of races will round out Van Aert's season before he turns his attentionไ to the cyclocross campaign at the end of the yeꦓar.
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Van Aert has enjoyed a successful season though perh🐠aps hasn't hit the heights he might have hoped.
He missed out at Milan-San Remo (third), the Tour of Flanders (fourth), and Paris-Roubaix (third) as well as a Tour de France stage win and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Road World Championships gold, where he was again second behind career-long💞 riva💙l van der Poel.
Van Aert has racked up 25 top-five placings through the season, including wins at the E3 Saxo Classic, the Belgian time trial title, and a stage and the overall at the Tour of Britain. He'll hope to add to that win list over the coming weeks, with a European road or time trial title and a world gravel title firmly in his s♒ights.
In Van Aert's absence, the Super 8 Classic will be headlined by Van der Poel, who is set to round out his season at the Circuit Franco-Belge, Paris-Tours, and Paris Olympics 𓆏mountain bike test event.
However, he will only race all four if he feels his form is up to par, having said after the GP de Wallonie that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:he might end his s꧑eason earlier than planned.
Van Aert's teammate Christophe Laporte is also down to race the Super 8 Classic along with Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), and Arnaud Démare in his sixth outing for Arkéa-💮Samsic.
However Lotto-Dstny sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arnaud De Lie, is another absence at the race with his team co⛄nfirmin🌜g that he won't be taking part on Friday morning.
Wout van Aert (@WoutvanAert) was originally also scheduled to start in the Super 8 Classic, but ♕he is not completely fit. He is now focusing on his other goals in the final part of the season.

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