Van der Poel to skip Olympic test event in Tokyo
Dutchman ♎opts to limit travel by racing Sparkassen Münsterlan♚d Giro

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Corendon-Circus team announced on Wednesday that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel will not compet꧂e in the Tokyo Olympic Games mꦜountain bike cross country test event this weekend.
The Dutchman will instead take part in t🐭he Sparkassen Münster💖land Giro on Thursday.
"In this way, we avoid additional burden for Mathieu with another race on a different continent and ob🐈viously another jet lag," the team said.
"We would like to give💝 Mathieu the chance to end an excellent road season in a nice way."
Van der Poel was one of the top favourites to win the UCI Road World Championships elite men's road ⛦race last week, but after making the winning breaka🌠way, the 21-year-old cracked and was dropped.
After Thursday's race, Van der Poelꦰ will take a break before launching into the cyclo-cross se💃ason as reigning world champion in that discipline.
In 2020, he a🐬ims to compete in the Summer Olympic Games in cross country, and has curtailed his road ambitions until after the Tokyo Games.
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Despite racing a limited road schedule and mixing in World Cups on the mountain bike after a full cyclo-cross season, Van der Poel still had a remarkable 🐓road season, winning the Amstel Gold Race and De Brabantse Pijl, the Tour of Britain, Dwars door Vlaanderen and GP de Denain - a total of 10 wins in 29 starts.
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