Mathieu Van der Poel is not looking for excuses after a disappointing world cup: “I was just not good enough”

Mathieu van der Poel was the role did not live up to the world CHAMPIONSHIPS cyclocross in Valkenburg. The Dutchman finished for its own people only as a third, behind the forbidding Wout van Aert and a surprisingly strong Michael Vanthourenhout. Afterwards, he has not, however, hide behind excuses. “But I was in Valkenburg, not to make three Belgians on the podium.”

“I am the value of a knock,” was Van der Poel honest. “It was one far above. In the second round, I felt it all… The public me there are still solid, I could in Valkenburg, not to make three Belgians on the podium.”

“It was a separate career but there, I must not cross. It was difficult but also the must running I can handle,” says a bloedeerlijke VdP. “I was just not good enough”

That the expectations were high in the camp of Van der Poel, was clear. The champagne was certainly ready: