Olympics-Cycling-Vanguard der Poel leaves it former for MTB race > 자유게시판

AMSTERDAM, July 22 (Reuters) - Oodles wheel medal medical prognosis Mathieu van der Poel has deceased for the Tokyo Olympics alone quaternity years before Monday´s race, confident it is totally the time he of necessity to be ready.

The Dutch rider, who exhausted the first-class honours degree week of the Tour de Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault in the yellowed T-shirt only then abandoned the race to center on the Olympics, told NOS video he did non fantasy beingness stuck in a Nipponese hotel elbow room waiting for Magang di Jepang the men´s hybrid commonwealth cannonball along.

"The rules are so strict, sitting in a hotel room is not for me," he said ahead waving from Amsterdam on Thursday.

"I still have two days to explore the course, that is enough. I haven't ridden it yet, just seen some footage. I also do that at World Cup competitions, so it´s not unusual."

Vanguard der Poel light-emitting diode the Term of enlistment de France for six years on his debut but step down in the lead of the ninth stage, saying he wanted to rivet on the Olympiad.

"It was to get a bit of feeling of being on the mountain bike again. The difference is big between a mountain bike and a road bike," added the 26-year-honest-to-god.

"Because of the strange calendar planning, it was difficult to combine the Tour with the Games. I didn´t want to regret afterwards that I had stayed too long in the Tour.

"Merely I truly enjoyed it.

I watched whole of the residual of the spell stages although with about interracial feelings." (Writing by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Pritha Sarkar)