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Campenaerts said the choice was purely about staying warm after suffering in the rain and cold on Stage 5. \u201cNo, it\u2019s just to keep my head warm, because I froze my head off yesterday,\u201d he explained. \u201cI have no hairs on my head, by choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was when the story took a very Campenaerts turn. The Belgian revealed that the advice had come from his father, who had not been impressed by his son\u2019s lack of head protection the previous day. \u201cBut my dad was bald from the age of 16, not by choice,\u201d Campenaerts said. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018I don\u2019t understand why you had nothing on your head yesterday. You lose so much heat.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways listen to your dad\u201d<\/p>\n
For a rider carrying serious responsibility in Vingegaard\u2019s Giro campaign, it was another reminder of why Campenaerts remains one of the peloton\u2019s most watchable personalities. His job in this race is to protect, position and support Visma\u2019s main favourite, but his off-bike delivery continues to bring a lighter edge to a tense opening week. \u201cAlways listen to your dad,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mielke then neatly signed off the exchange with the line Campenaerts had effectively invited: \u201cRemember, always listen to your dad, especially if he\u2019s bald.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comic timing came in the middle of another difficult Giro opening week, with rain, crashes and cold conditions already shaping the race. For Campenaerts, though, the lesson before Stage 6 was not tactical, technical or marginal gains related.<\/p>\n
It was much simpler: bald heads need covering, and dads are usually right.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Campenaerts said the choice was purely about staying warm after suffering in the rain and cold on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,20995,101,36242,56,54,55,113657],"class_list":["post-585237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-victor-campenaerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585237","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=585237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}