{"id":470686,"date":"2026-03-12T02:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:24:16","slug":"tiesj-benoot-makes-big-steps-on-his-path-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470686\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiesj Benoot makes big steps on his path to recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiesj Benoot<\/a> will be one of the main absentees of this year’s Classics season. While others are either competing at Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, or giving their preparations some final touches, the Belgian is forced to watch action from sidelines. The 31-year-old’s preparation was disrupted by a back pain this winter which ended up requiring a surgery to treat a lumbar disc herniation<\/a>. As a consequence, Benoot won’t see action this spring.<\/p>\n

Even though a competitive return is not in sights, Benoot remains high spirit as his recovery gradually progresses: “It’s going well now. If I compare today to a week ago, I’ve made progress,” he said in the HLN cycling podcast.<\/p>\n

While he’s not yet able to ride his bicycle after the surgery, there’s already a clear improvement in regular activities.<\/p>\n

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“I already have more confidence in the things I do, including in everyday life. It’s going faster than I expected. I hope to be back on the rollers soon. I’d love to be racing again by summer. The sooner the better, of course, but I also don’t want to skip any steps.”<\/p>\n

Incredible SeixasOriginally, Benoot would’ve been a co-leader and mentor alongside Paul Seixas<\/a> at Strade Bianche, but the Belgian’s absence meant that the Frenchman had to make a do alone. And he certainly held his own against the biggest stars of professional peloton including Tadej Pogacar and Isaac del Toro as the 19-year-old ended up losing only to the Slovenian phenomenon<\/a> in his Strade debut<\/p>\n

“That he finished second in Strade Bianche is incredibly impressive. I’ve only done one training camp with him. He’s a typical young guy to be around, but I don’t see him as a typical young rider. He’s not fixated on wattage and nutrition. He’s not the guy who constantly watches his training. I think he still has a lot of room for improvement,” the new Decathlon CMA CGM rider concludes.<\/p>\n

\"Tadej<\/p>\n

Tadej Pogacar and Paul Seixas on the 2026 Strade Bianche podium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiesj Benoot will be one of the main absentees of this year’s Classics season. While others are either…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,117520,112065,101,117519,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-decathlon-cma-cgm-team","tag-paul-seixas","tag-sports","tag-tiesj-benoot","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470686","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=470686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}