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Eddy Merckx critical of Van Aert’s Gent-Wevelgem gift: ‘I wouldn’t have done it’

Eddy Merckx critical of Van Aert’s Gent-Wevelgem gift: ‘I wouldn’t have done it’


Wout van Aert’s decision to gift his teammate Christophe Laporte victory at Gent-Wevelgem has been given a collective thumbs-down in Belgium from three of his fellow Belgian cycling greats – Eddy Merckx, Johan Museeuw and Tom Boonen.

Laporte and Van Aert broke away more than 50 kilometres from the line in the rain soaked edition of Gent-Wevelgem, in a repeat of their long distance joint attack at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic in 2022.

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