Van der Poel adds more spring races to 2020 schedule
Dutchman hoping to make debut♉s at Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatic🧸o and Milan-San Remo next season

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel's new European cyclo-cross champion's jersey may be fresh on his shoulders, but the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Corendon-Circus rider is already thinking ahead to the 2020 road season, revealing ൲his provis𒊎ional early spring schedule after taking two wins in two days on the 'cross bike.
Fewer than 24 hours after becoming 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:European champion for a third time in succession, Van der Poel won his third race of the season at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jaarmarktcross 𝄹in Belgium on Monday. Afterwards, he revealed he hopes toღ ride in Italy in March, having already confirmed his attendance at several cobbled Classics, pending his team's invitation.
First-time participations at Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adrꦑiatico and Milan-San Remo are on the menu for Van der Poel, once again assuming that Corendon-Circus are awarded wildcards for the race given their non-WorldTour status.
"That is the intention. We want that very much with the team," Van der Poel said in an interview on Dutch television channel Ziggo Sport.
"We just have to get a wildcard because we're not a WorldTour teꦅam. I♛ hope that it can go ahead, and usually we would be eligible for a wildcard."
Van der Poel's latest pronouncement adds to the rapidly fleshing out 2020 calendar for the 24-year-old. With four cobbled classics on his schedule, including the Tour o🏅f Flanders and a Paris-Roubaix debut, plus a return to Brabantse Pijl, which he won in 2019, his spring objectives seem complete.
What remains unclear is where his road season will begin, if he'll start in February start as he did in 2019, and whether he🌟 will return to defend his Amstel Gold Racᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe title in late April. In any case, after the Classics, he'll switch disciplines once again for the summer.
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"In principle, he will rest a while and then ride his first [mountain-bike] World Cup in May," Corendon-Circus team manager Christophe Roodhoft said 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:earlier this month.
That could mean a return to Nové Mesto in the Czech Republic, a round he won in 2019, or earlier rounds at Maribor, Slovenia,💃 and Lošini, Croatia. Van der Poel's major goal on the mountain bike will be the Olympic Games in Tokyo, with the cross-country race falling on July 27.
"Tokyo is my big dream," said Van der Poel to Sporza last week. "After t♌hat, a Grand Tour is the big new challenge. I want to go 🍨to the Vuelta a España."
The Corendon-Circus team has been trying to strengthening its roster for 2020. Stijn Devolder has retired but Kristian Sbaragli of Israel Cycling Academꦺy is expected to ink a two-year deal, while Sacha Modolo of EF Education First is also likely to join the Dutch Professional Continental team.
Other riders linked to Corendon-Circus for 2020 are Antoine Benoist, Floris De Tier, Senne Leysen, Oscar Riesebeek, Ben Tulett, Petr Vakoc and Louis V♏ervaeke.
Before making his return to road racing next year, though, Van der Poel is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:focusing his attention on the Cyclo-cross World Championships, which fall on February 2, saying that th🐟ey are his only real goal for the 2019-20 cyc🎉lo-cross season.
Mathieu van der Poel's provisional 2020 road calendar
- March 8: Strade Bianche
- March 11-17: Tirreno-Adriatico
- March 21: Milan-San Remo
- March 29: Gent-Wevelgem
- April 1: Dwars door Vlaanderen
- April 5: Tour of Flanders
- April 12: Paris-Roubaix
- April 15: Brabantse Pijl
- May: UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
- July 27: Olympic Games, cross-country mountain bike
- August 14-September 6: Vuelta a España

Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 a🀅s a freelance contributor and later൲ being hired full-time. Before joining the team, she had written for numerous major publications in the cycling world, including Cycling Weekly and Rouleur.