Van der Poel and Van Aert, the infinite challenge – Antonio Ruzzo’s blog

There will be comfortable and enjoy the world championship of Ciclocross which on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be staged in France in Levin on the border with Belgium, on the same roads where Roubaix …

Van der Poel and Van Aert, the infinite challenge - Antonio Ruzzo's blog

There will be comfortable and enjoy the world championship of Ciclocross which on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be staged in France in Levin on the border with Belgium, on the same roads where Roubaix is ​​played in April, in front of over 40 thousand fans, mostly Flemish, ready to peel your hands. It will be to be enjoyed especially on Sunday when the Elite test that will see once again, one against the other, will start at 15 Matieu van der poel And Wout van aert In that infinite challenge that sees the Dutch to the hunt for the seventh world championship that would make him sit alongside his majesty Roger de Vlaeminck And the Belgian in search of a poker who actually seems truly impossible for his own admission, by the admission of his technicians, by admission of the bookmakers who give the chances of his 10 percent victory against 90 percent of the his rival. Too strong now Van der Poel, too much the distance between the two, too much for everyone also for highly classy champions and specialists such as Joris Nieuwenhuis, Michael Vanthounhout, Lars van der Haar, Eli Iserbyt or Tibau Nys. The ending seems already written and for this reason the decision that has brought the Vistma champion surprise to participate when nobody expected it anymore, acquires absolute value. His deed is an act of love: Van Aert runs the cyclocross world championship because, even if it is almost certain that he cannot win him, he wants to be there, he wants to try the same, to have fun, to give vent to his passion who, as he always repeats, was born and became his job thanks to the cyclocross. In Maasmechelen, in the latest test of the World Cup, it arrived behind Van der Poel of over a minute and there was no story even if the Belgian has complicated his life, as often happens to him, with a series of errors And a couple of falls. But he must have heard strongly to Levin. Attentive to those two therefore and, however, go to you and the scream of his fans who were waiting for nothing but see him in the race and perhaps also for this reason he changed his mind and will be in a great show, which will see us as it has been there for some time now spectators with alone Gioele Bertolini In the race that will fight as always bravely in the rear. The blue patrol will still be nourished. The CT Daniele Pontoni He made known the called up starting from the relay, which also represents the first opportunity for Italy, European champion only a few months ago, to get on the podium. Same goes for Mattia AgostinacchioEuropean champion in office and winner of two category world cup tests this season. The junior world champion of last year is also competing Stefano Viezzi, Expected in the demanding transition between the under 23. “First of all I want to underline the convocation of Eva Lechner as a career prize for everything he has given to Italian cycling- explained the blue ct- it will be his last blue shirt and I believe that the applause of the whole movement deserves. We are very competitive in the Juniores and Under 23 categories and I think we can do well in the others. It starts with the relay, where we arrive as European champions in charge and to which we keep a lot, because it is an expression of a movement and also of the work of the whole team. The path is not prohibitive but the weather conditions, as always in this specialty, will be fundamental “.

The convened

Junior
Agostinacchio Mattia – Fas Airport Services Guerciotti
Fabbro Ettore – ASD DP66
Filippo Grigolini – Team Cingolani
Piece Rumola Patrik-Zanolini-Q36.5 Südtirol

Juniores women
Ferri Elisa – Fas Airport Services Guerciotti
Pellizotti Giorgia – Soc. Sport.sanfiorese

Men under 23
Scappini Samuele – Team Cingolani
Viezzi Stefano – Alpecin Deceunininck Development Team

Women under 23
Bramati Lucia – Fas Airport Services Guerciotti
Beatrice Fontana – Sports of the Bridge

Elite women
Borello Carlotta – Team Cingolani
Casasola Sara-Crelan-Corendon
Lechner Eva – Ale Cycling Team

Elite men
Bertolini Gioele – Army Sports Center

The program

Friday 31 January
12:30 – Team Relay

Saturday 1 February
11:00 – Juniors women
13:00 – Men under 23
15:00 – Elite women

Sunday 2 February
11:00 – Juniors men
13:00 – Women under 23
15:00 – Elite men