{"id":314286,"date":"2025-11-29T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314286\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:04:07","slug":"voila-mathieu-van-der-poel-announces-full-cross-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314286\/","title":{"rendered":"Voil\u00e0! Mathieu van der Poel announces full \u2019cross schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathieu van der Poel has published the outline of his cyclocross season, aiming to open on at the World Cup in Namur \u2014 though that first start could shift. His early calendar remains conditional on being fully race-ready and on how his road training develops, leaving Namur and Benidorm as tentative stops.<\/p>\n<p>His season ended a little abruptly. He resumed training after a post-mountain-bike world championship break in the U.S. Van der Poel ended his season early after a disappointing MTB worlds. The Dutchman went to California, played some golf, and rode a little.<\/p>\n<p>MvdP\u2019s \u2018cross season<\/p>\n<p>As far as his \u2019cross season goes, what\u2019s clear is the emphasis on the UCI CX World Cup. Antwerp, Koksijde, Gavere, Zonhoven, Maasmechelen, and Hoogerheide are all on his list ahead of the following week\u2019s world championships in Hulst, the Netherlands. Those world championships could be historic: he is tied for the all-time win record (7) with Erik De Vlaeminck. The 2026 UCI cyclocross world championships take place at the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Poel also plans to race Hofstade\u2019s Plage Cross, Loenhout\u2019s Azencross, the GP Sven Nys in Baal, and the Exact Cross in Mol, for a maximum of 13 starts across the winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/how-to-watch-sidney-mcgill-at-the-uci-cx-world-cup-in-flamanville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How to watch Sidney McGill at the UCI CX World Cup in Flamanville<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a big year for the reigning world champion. Initially, Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck managed it cautiously. Christoph Roodhooft said during the X2O Badkamers Trofee broadcast, \u201cAround Christmas \u2014 he\u2019ll show up somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still no indication of when Wout van Aert will pin on a number again, or how much cyclocross he intends to take on this winter. Last season he kept his programme tight \u2014 though he did end up stretching it to include the world championships, where he finished second. But cycling fans should know soon.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Van Aert, there\u2019s another rider who may very well challenge Van der Poel eventually. And just like the Dutchman, Thibau Nys has strong genes \u2014 his father, Sven (who rode with Van der Poel\u2019s father, Adri), was a multiple world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathieu van der Poel has published the outline of his cyclocross season, aiming to open on at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,80956,13633,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-314286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-cyclocross","12":"tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}