{"id":453834,"date":"2026-03-02T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:22:08","slug":"wout-van-aert-returns-to-racing-as-lines-up-for-visma-at-le-samyn-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453834\/","title":{"rendered":"Wout van Aert returns to racing as lines up for Visma at Le Samyn 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/wout-van-aert\" title=\"Wout van Aert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wout van Aert<\/a> has had an extremely unlucky start to the year but now, with a month left to the Tour of Flanders, it might be time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Team Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> rider to finally get back on track. He is now confirmed to be racing <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/le-samyn\" title=\"Le Samyn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Samyn<\/a> this Tuesday, where he will return to racing.<\/p>\n<p>This Monday marks the two-month mark since his crash at the Exact Cross Mol, where he was racing alongside Mathieu van der Poel but slipped in a patch of ice, breaking his ankle in the fall. Whilst it was not overly costly for his training schedule, it removed a few weeks of quality training and racing whilst making his everyday life difficult as he could not walk regularly for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He travelled to Sierra Nevada for an altitude camp with the team for three weeks, although on several days training outdoors was not possible in the midst of a snowstorm as Western Europe was affected by a once-in-a-generation sequence of storms and meteorological depressions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSince, he has come back down from altitude but he then fell ill which led him to have to skip Omloop het Nieuwsblad, where he would&#8217;ve been testing his form and also been one of the candidates for victory. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/results-kuurne-bruxelles-kuurne-2026-victory-for-visma-matthew-brennan-takes-biggest-career-win-as-dominant-sprint-ends-chaotic-opening-weekend\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visma then won Kuurne &#8211; Bruxelles &#8211; Kuurne with Mattew Brennan<\/a>; and the team now has momentum to carry onto Le Samyn.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GPSamyn\/status\/2028432473621745737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Van Aert has been confirmed by the race organizers to be participating<\/a>, ending the doubts on his current health status. He will join Christophe Laporte and together, they form a duo that is likely to be the one to beat on the Belgian semi-classic. He will follow that up with Strade Bianche later this weekend, before going through a heavy racing schedule ahead of the monuments where he will be racing with the goal of obtaining a victory this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wout van Aert has had an extremely unlucky start to the year but now, with a month left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,160562,101,36242,56,54,55,8783],"class_list":{"0":"post-453834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-le-samyn","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wout-van-aert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453834","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=453834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}