{"id":797090,"date":"2026-07-12T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797090\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:10:09","slug":"roxanne-bertels-mathieu-van-der-poels-girlfriend-at-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797090\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxanne Bertels, Mathieu van der Poel&#8217;s girlfriend, at the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Neyrinck has produced a feature for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZFFSi-Whrio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sporza <\/a>with Roxanne Bertels, Katryn Boone and Melanie Peetermans. The partners of respective Alpecin-Premier Tech riders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/mathieu-van-der-poel\" title=\"Mathieu van der Poel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathieu van der Poel<\/a>, Jonas Rickaert and Jasper Philipsen are also at the Tour de France, where they spoke to the Belgian journalist about life alongside three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/roxanne-bertels-on-life-with-mathieu-van-der-poel-you-see-how-much-he-sacrifices\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">professional riders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neyrinck asks the women whether the clich\u00e9 that behind every strong rider stands a strong woman is true. \u201cYou simply have to make sure you are there during the good moments, but especially during the bad moments. That is even more important than anything else,\u201d Bertels responds in the feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether you are with a professional cyclist or, tomorrow, with a lawyer who has a demanding job or a doctor, you are simply expected to stand by your partner,\u201d Bertels continues. \u201cIt is really rewarding to be able to take care of someone \u2014 and to have the opportunity to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Neyrinck asks the women what truly makes their partners happy, Peetermans answers on Philipsen\u2019s behalf with a Bicky Burger, a popular Belgian fast-food snack. \u201cI probably make mine happiest with a day on the golf course,\u201d Bertels says with a laugh. \u201cBut that has nothing to do with racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feature was filmed after Stage 8, which had been a particularly stressful day for Philipsen\u2019s partner. The Belgian sprinter eventually finished fourth. \u201cI thought it was quite a tricky finale. I\u2019m extremely happy there were no crashes. That meant my stress level was a little higher than usual,\u201d Peetermans explains, understandably.<\/p>\n<p>Video: Sammy Neyrinck speaks with the partners of Van der Poel, Philipsen and Rickaert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sammy Neyrinck has produced a feature for Sporza with Roxanne Bertels, Katryn Boone and Melanie Peetermans. The partners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,13633,82,262636],"class_list":["post-797090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797090","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=797090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}