It was an amazing picture in the tenth stage. Wout van Aert who suddenly got ahead of the peloton with Mathieu van der Poel, looking for the front runners. A short adventure that ended in failure.
Tom Dumoulin saw this happening with increasing astonishment. “I don’t get it at all. I keep getting from Matthew that he’s going to play a little bit and he’s going to go on for a while. Wott accidentally gets behind the wheel, but then he takes over and keeps driving. I just didn’t get it.”
Eddie Planckart also made his eyes wide. “Waste all that energy and that on a rider with such abilities. He can ride uphill and survive tough stages. He should be able to win three stages a year.”
In Planckart, Van Aert’s missed opportunity in the second stage still weighed heavily on his stomach. “Vingegaard should only have driven 100 meters in front of him and that wouldn’t have hurt him. Van Aert won one leg at the time. But I heard Van Aert would also park Vingegaard after the Tour.”
Tom Dumoulin has a better understanding of the division of roles in Jumbo-Visma. “Until today, Wout van Aert did everything right, he was a great teammate of Jonas Vingegaard.”
“Jumbo-Visma has only one goal and that is to win the Tour. Wout can take his chance on stages that suit him. They also went for him on stage two, but Vingegaard was told before the Tour that, in principle, he should not help Van Aert, although He should have done it at that time.”
Stage 10 also gave Van Aert chances on paper, but it was an eventful day. Dumoulin is critical. “Wout didn’t have a good ride. He really threw away his powers.”
“At a certain moment he even had to release where it wasn’t really necessary. Maybe the team needed him later on.”
“I also didn’t understand his move in the final. If you want to win the Tour with Vingegaard, Van Aert really shouldn’t be doing it. With 1 up and 2.5 minutes left of the leading group, you no longer have to attack The slim chance of joining the leading group” .
“That was wasted energy. Primarily for him, but also for the team.”
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