{"id":603848,"date":"2026-05-26T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:30:11","slug":"immunity-booster-wout-van-aert-and-visma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603848\/","title":{"rendered":"“Immunity booster” – Wout Van Aert and Visma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wout Van Aert<\/a> and his Visma | Lease a Bike teammates took on a gruelling day of gravel riding in Spain on Sunday as they ramped up Tour de France<\/a> preparations. The Dutch team have been based in Sierra Nevada as Van Aert and other teammates such as Matteo Jorgenson, Bruno Amirail.Van Aert hasn’t on the road since his career-defining Paris Roubaix victory<\/a> in April, but is targeting a return at the Tour Auvergne – Rhone Alpes (formerly the Criterium de Dauphine) next month before arriving at the Tour de France Grand Depart in Barcelona on July 4th.<\/p>\n

And preparations are in full swing, with Van Aert and teammates coming down from their high-altitude training base to take on some brutal gravel riding in a day that featured over 181 kilometers and 4,000 meters of elevation gain – no easy day of recovery from the high peaks in Sierra Nevada.<\/p>\n


\n\"VanImmunity booster gravel ride”That kind of training day,” Van Aert wrote on a social media story before the Strava activity confirmed the huge training ride<\/a>. The Belgian added some context in what he believes will help his body for hard race days later this season: “That was a proper immunity booster”.<\/p>\n

June 7th is likely on the mind of Van Aert. He and Armirail are reported to be part of the Dutch team’s line-up at the WorldTour race, traditionally used as preparation for the Tour. And he’ll likely be a key domestique for Jonas Vingegaard in July, while also targeting stage win opportunities that fit his versatile capabilities.<\/p>\n

Van Aert has competed competitively since his Paris-Roubaix triumph, the 31-year-old won the Marly Gravel Race in the UCI Gravel World Series on May 10th – taking a dominant solo win over fellow stars such as Florian Vermeesch and Pascal Eenkhoorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wout Van Aert and his Visma | Lease a Bike teammates took on a gruelling day of gravel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,36242,6549,56,54,55,8783],"class_list":["post-603848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wout-van-aert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603848","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=603848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}