{"id":608738,"date":"2026-04-15T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:39:16","slug":"thibau-nys-resumes-training-following-a-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608738\/","title":{"rendered":"Thibau Nys resumes training following a knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even more important for Nys was to see Tadej Pogacar being defeated. Because, as he had indicated prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9bSzghoWgOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WielerFlits<\/a>, the Belgian intends <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/i-wont-be-discouraged-by-him-thibau-nys-not-afraid-to-take-on-tadej-pogacar-at-world-championships\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to dethrone the Slovenian<\/a> at the Montreal World Championships this autumn.  &#8220;I won\u2019t be discouraged if Tadej is on the start. So it\u2019s very possible I\u2019ll set my sights on racing the Worlds in Canada,&#8221; he told the Dutch outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he&#8217;s aware of a certain skill gap he&#8217;s yet to overcome, his sights are set no lower than for the likes of Pogacar and Van der Poel, regardless of the obstacle that has been his injury: &#8220;I think I can compete with them. But I\u2019m also very realistic and I\u2019m not going to claim I\u2019ll beat them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As to when can we expect Nys back in action, the Belgian was rather firm in his comments on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sporza.be\/nl\/2026\/04\/02\/thibau-nys-loopt-verloren-met-knieblessure-die-hem-van-de-fiets-houdt-het-is-zwaar-een-beetje-deprimerend~1775157731251\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vive le V\u00e9lo, Leve de Ronde<\/a> talk show: &#8220;Then the question is when I\u2019ll be able to handle full training load again. I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m not going to make any promises. I hope to start racing again sometime in June or July.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even more important for Nys was to see Tadej Pogacar being defeated. Because, as he had indicated prior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,49602,85,149783],"class_list":{"0":"post-608738","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-lidl-trek","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-thibau-nys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608738","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=608738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}