Indeleiderstrui<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe cited the example of Il Lombardia last year, where Poga\u010dar still won but a group went clear early and took the fight to him. Quinn Simmons (Lidl Trek) was the last man standing in the breakaway, before finally being caught. <\/p>\n
Benoot said the way Simmons, and his Lidl Trek team mate Mads Pedersen, raced may be the way to take on the very strongest riders. <\/p>\n
\u201cNow that Poga\u010dar has started riding the classics and van der Poel has taken a big step, it\u2019s almost become a utopia for many riders. But something can happen to them, and of course, they don\u2019t ride everything,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
However, aside from discussing Poga\u010dar and van der Poel, Benoot said now that he had moved team, he believed it had riders who could win a lot of race. He was especiallu looking forward to riding for sprinter Olav Kooij and up-and-coming GC man, French teenager Paul Seixas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the Tour, I didn\u2019t have any personal ambitions at Visma | Lease a Bike, because it was also a personal goal to win the race with Jonas Vingegaard. That will change here, because we\u2019ll be going with Olav Kooij as a sprinter and a few stage breakers. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut just try winning a transition stage like that in the Tour: on those days, there are 100 riders raring to go. It\u2019s different, physiologically as well, than a classic.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said of Seixas: \u201cHe\u2019s still only 19 years old. The potential is there, otherwise you wouldn\u2019t finish third at the European Championships behind Pogacar and Evenepoel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiesj Benoot winning Strade Bianche 2018 and now the new Decathlon CMA CGM Team rider has urged others…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Tiesj Benoot winning Strade Bianche 2018 and now the new Decathlon CMA CGM Team rider has urged others not to work with Tadej Poga\u010dar or Mathieu van der Poel in the classics (Photo: Fabio Ferrari) <\/p>\n