{"id":315608,"date":"2025-11-29T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:07:08","slug":"joris-nieuwenhuis-admits-cyclocross-regulars-have-little-chance-against-all-conquering-van-der-poel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/315608\/","title":{"rendered":"Joris Nieuwenhuis admits cyclocross regulars have little chance against all-conquering Van der Poel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/thibau-nys\" title=\"Thibau Nys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thibau Nys<\/a> can show something in the races that suit him perfectly or on truly exceptional days,\u201d Nieuwenhuis said. \u201cBut to be able to go with Mathieu? Then Mathieu simply has to have a bad day. No one gets close to Mathieu when he\u2019s having a very good day. What he does then is genuinely inhuman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nieuwenhuis\u2019 comments arrive during a winter in which interest around the discipline has intensified, with strong early-season performances from several riders. His focus on Van der Poel\u2019s level places the spotlight back on the reigning world champion\u2019s return to the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think Thibau Nys can show something in the races that suit him perfectly or on truly exceptional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,124089,165876,77973,178370,85,149783,58412],"class_list":{"0":"post-315608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-cyclocross","12":"tag-joris-nieuwenhuis","13":"tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","14":"tag-niels-albert","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-thibau-nys","17":"tag-wout-van-aert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}