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It’s going to be a completely different experience for Wellens, who will certainly miss his time by the raceside, moving into the teamcar for the season ahead.<\/p>\n
“For the past four months, I’ve been working with this cyclo-cross team seven days a week,” Wellens said. Specifically, he is proud of his work with young talent, having built a pathway to the top for Julie Brouwers and Keije Solen in their respective categories:<\/p>\n
“I did everything I could to give my riders the best of the best. I brought Julie Brouwers to the level she’s currently riding, and I know she can do even better. I hope the new team management will spend as many hours on their moped or give as much training in the cyclocross field as I did.”<\/p>\n
The two young riders can still lean back on their former coach and manager though. “I’m not completely abandoning Julie and Keije either, right in the middle of the season. I promised them that if they need me during the week, for example, to ride behind their moped, I’ll be there for them.”<\/p>\n
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From now on, Bart Wellens will be responsible for the results of road stars such as Arnaud de Lie<\/p>\n
A bitter farewell<\/p>\n
The former cyclo-cross world champion said realising that the Superprestige in Diegem on Tuesday was his last foray into the discipline was “a bitter pill to swallow”.<\/p>\n
“But every cloud has a silver lining. I don’t normally see my children in January, but this time I’ve already booked a few dates for them. And I’ll definitely keep following it. I have to, since I’ll continue fulfilling my role as Cyclo-cross Professor – from the comfort of my own home, of course, or on-site, like in Benidorm, where I’ll be present as an analyst for Play Sports.”<\/p>\n
“Cyclo-cross will always be in my heart. The only thing I won’t miss is having to fight for an extra square meter to pitch your tent at 7:30 in the morning in the riders’ parking lot. And since I’m not expected in Baal [the GP Sven Nys on January 1], I don’t have to worry about a hangover this time. Although I’m sure it won’t be too bad. Board games with the kids, a drink, and not going to bed too late.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s going to be a completely different experience for Wellens, who will certainly miss his time by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[138565,49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-383168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-bart-wellens","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383168","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=383168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}