{"id":606646,"date":"2026-05-27T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606646\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:27:10","slug":"lotte-kopecky-and-axel-merckx-surprise-with-a-secret-marriage-after-a-small-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606646\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotte Kopecky and Axel Merckx surprise with a secret marriage after a small ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/lotte-kopecky\" title=\"Lotte Kopecky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lotte Kopecky<\/a> still isn&#8217;t quite on her previous defeat-less streak, but the Belgian woman clearly enjoys cycling more again after a year full of struggles. And a lot of the credit for her mental (and physical) recovery goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/axel-merckx\" title=\"Axel Merckx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axel Merckx<\/a>. The two personas of Belgian cycling have been dating since last year and now added their relationship a new depth. The couple said their &#8216;yes&#8217; to each other today at a Bruges City Hall, becoming a wife and a husband.&#8221;Being in love is very nice, but above all stability improves your performances,&#8221; Kopecky told <a href=\"https:\/\/sporza.be\/nl\/2025\/11\/20\/2025-bracht-lotte-kopecky-ook-geluk-naast-de-fiets-het-hoeft-geen-item-te-zijn-maar-er-is-iemand-op-wie-ik-kan-terugvallen~1763651564092\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sporza<\/a> in winter. &#8220;There is someone I can rely on and who also shares the difficult moments. That is more important than being in love.&#8221;&#8221;We are very happy together,&#8221; Kopecky said earlier this year. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/axel-knows-what-cycling-entails-lotte-kopecky-hopes-to-return-to-her-winning-way-with-new-found-stability\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axel also knows what cycling entails<\/a> and what needs to be done for it. He knows the life that needs to be lived. In that respect, we are on the same wavelength.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lotte Kopecky still isn&#8217;t quite on her previous defeat-less streak, but the Belgian woman clearly enjoys cycling more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[125074,4985,121847,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-axel-merckx","tag-cycling","tag-lotte-kopecky","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606646","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=606646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}