Wout van Aert has gone deep on numerous occasions during Tirreno-Adriatico, but the suffering on his face should be replaced by a smile following the race’s conclusion in San Benedetto del Tronto, with his stock for the Classics rising in time for next week’s Milan-San Remo.
Van Aert fractured his ankle on January 2 while racing cyclocross and then had to miss Omloop Het Nieuwsblad due to a nasty illness.
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“I won’t say I feel top-notch, but it is good enough,” Van Aert told the Flemish media of his growing form and week of ‘gaining race hardness.’
“You can’t simulate this work in training. Even with a good training schedule, you always choose a certain comfort zone. Here, the pace is set by someone else; you have to ride in a peloton and respond to attacks. You need that race feeling. It’s a cliché, but you can’t replicate that.”
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