{"id":600029,"date":"2026-05-23T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:08:10","slug":"he-is-an-old-school-cancellara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600029\/","title":{"rendered":"He is an old-school Cancellara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No, we had no intention of catching Alec, but rather of staying in the safe zone,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/wielerrevue.nl\/artikel\/687037\/campenaerts-strooit-met-grote-woorden-hij-is-een-old-school-fabian-cancellara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Campenaerts told Sporza<\/a>. &#8220;Safe is often at the front, and that&#8217;s where we were, but to be honest, I couldn&#8217;t go much faster than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We knew perfectly well that Alec is no longer a threat to the general classification. So it didn&#8217;t matter much to us. It was a tough finale and Alec was clearly the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Cancellara was known for his time trial prowess and powerful engine that saw him wear the world champion&#8217;s jersey four times, Cancellara was also able to convert that into racing success as he won eight Tour de France stages and seven monument victories in a glittering career before retiring in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>And Segaert pulled off a move straight from the Swiss legend&#8217;s playbook &#8211; riding an entire peloton off his wheel in a stunning show of pure power. Campenaerts was first to make the comparison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an old-school Cancellara who can escape a peloton sprint. Everyone knows that by now. It must be that the sprinter teams just didn&#8217;t have the legs anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two&#8217;s careers briefly crossed paths at Lotto Dstny in 2023 and 2024 as Segaert turned professional &#8211; although Campenaerts noted that the two rarely raced together before he left the team.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t ride an extreme number of races together. I did see him turn pro, though. His steady progress has brought him to who he is today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, we had no intention of catching Alec, but rather of staying in the safe zone,&#8221; Campenaerts told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[172057,4985,110323,20995,101,56,54,55,113657],"class_list":["post-600029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-alec-segaert","tag-cycling","tag-fabian-cancellara","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-victor-campenaerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600029","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=600029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}