{"id":601036,"date":"2026-04-12T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:17:07","slug":"i-dont-see-a-reason-why-they-should-just-stay-in-the-wheel-johan-museeuw-defends-criticism-of-mathieu-van-der-poel-after-flanders-cyclinguptodate-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601036\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I don\u2019t see a reason why they should just stay in the wheel&quot; &#8211; Johan Museeuw defends criticism of Mathieu van der Poel after Flanders &#8211; CyclingUpToDate.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-AFBVV95cUxNdmd5Z0F2bVo4UUJuWVZMb2dyclk4dk5uUVlYZTZVQ3VJOEFrNXVYRk1abnVFOUwtTnBUcy1fZmY1N1dsLUhaUkNOam5UTE1adVozdFBDdENVOHV6am1STjRHUEJwN0lqUTNaVml2TEMwbEZOVm9lekh3SDNmVlFIWXo5OGFxNG80XzRITUc1WGFmQ2ZqaHl3UzVvTlkxc3dpY280MlVQSFgwQzlSbjZfWG9nMWtfaW1QVUZmZERmaG5sLUx6VlpoWGdnTUh4bkNaa1BjaTNBalJSLUx2QXBRU3JfbFlCLVA4NXRiaHplR1RGT1NNRy1Yag?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;I don\u2019t see a reason why they should just stay in the wheel&#8221; &#8211; Johan Museeuw defends criticism of Mathieu van der Poel after Flanders<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CyclingUpToDate.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxOZUJheDNfNF9lZWhycUxjRWFvaE1FeEl4SlpHQk9mMGRzZmIwWlN5VUxXNERINGlFaGxnRDJJVG9sNjUybFRhNW1GTkNoSXU5NFpxbDVBVGo2aUxHYkV1OEpoOFBpLVVlMEtnRW93VDMtSlc1TTFTSS1mX3d3WnctMzFvVXRjd1dWNEk5VVNiMGxzeERTVlExTFpPOWk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is Van der Poel joining the rest of us as extras in Poga\u010dar\u2019s story?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Escape Collective<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwJBVV95cUxQajhFTE5ReG00LTNHbzJLcXpIcllYMU83WFhWMFdoMWlMeUhZbG8tVnAtYTlhWEpTdFJQZl9tWUlwZ3o1RDZMdFRUVTlhaVc2eF9jcnRIMHkxel9OcGF2d2N6blRwVk50NHEyWmdwRmQwREloeENUWG9RTWNrQy1EcGlHMVVEUHVRVHlOaExEcXQxbjJaUWhXdXZqRlRISkp4Tm1tRTVDQVRxZXM5c3hwbl84VUNfUU9iRnJLbHJ1TGc5T3BNWHJoT3RFdEtRUExSLURDQTVZRWtJbWNnWXQtSURBSDE0NDhTamZhTFlNLWNlTU1VZHJhbUsyZHNVeWlqeWJLTC1NNFE5bHE5RnVxVFczem43N1k1aE9JcHVGdmRwNE1udFplRzBhTWw1c1E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;A few so-called experts had an opinion&#8217; \u2013 Mathieu van der Poel defends Flanders power numbers and working with Tadej Poga\u010dar ahead of Paris-Roubaix rematch<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Cyclingnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don\u2019t see a reason why they should just stay in the wheel&#8221; &#8211; Johan Museeuw defends criticism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-601036","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601036","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=601036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}