Wout van Aert may very well be set to face off in opposition to Remco Evenepoel for the Belgian time trial title in June, with the Jumbo-Visma star considering participation within the race on the highway to the Tour de France.
Van Aert is presently coaching at altitude with the Dutch crew’s Tour de France squad in Sierra Nevada, having spent a lot of Could in Spain alongside Tour champion Jonas Vingegaard in addition to Dylan van Baarle, Tiesj Benoot, Nathan van Hooydonck, Christophe Laporte, Steven Kruijswijk and Wilco Kelderman.
He’ll tackle the Tour de Suisse subsequent month as a closing preparation for the Tour, whereas nearly all of the crew’s Tour squad heads to the Critérium du Dauphine.
Nevertheless, he will not be part of his teammates for one more altitude camp in Tignes on the finish of June, opening up a slot to participate within the time trial on the Belgian Nationwide Championships.
In accordance with a report by Het Laatste Nieuws, Van Aert is significantly contemplating collaborating within the time trial in Herzele three days earlier than the highway race in Izegem on June 25, for which he’s already confirmed.
He has twice been topped nationwide time trial champion up to now, profitable the title in 2019 and 2020, whereas he received the highway title in Waregem in 2021. Evenepoel is the reigning nationwide time trial champion.
Van Aert hasn’t seen racing motion since finishing his Spring Classics marketing campaign with a podium end at Paris-Roubaix in early Could. Since Could 9 he is been working at altitude together with his Jumbo-Visma teammates at an altitude camp which runs to Could 29.
The group have put in some monster rides in Sierra Nevada, together with a 244km trip on Sunday logging 5,329 metres of climbing – as a lot as Friday’s Giro d’Italia queen stage by the Dolomites to Tre Cime di Lavaredo. One other massive trip on Wednesday totalled 212km and 4,228 metres of climbing.
 In accordance with Van Aert’s Strava, he has logged a complete of 1,942km of coaching rides at camp, including as much as 46,723 climbing metres.
Forward of the Tour de Suisse, he’ll return to altitude at Diavolezza on the Swiss-Italian border close to St Moritz. After eight days of racing in Switzerland (June 11-18) he’ll head again to Belgium, the place a bid for a 3rd nationwide crown may very well be on the playing cards forward of the Tour after which his August aim of profitable the rainbow jersey in Glasgow.
