Belgian star Thibau Nys is set to kick off his cyclocross season this weekend, with a double programme of the iconic Koppenbergcross and the X2O Trofee in Lokeren, and he doesn’t just want to ease into things.
A talent in both CX and road racing, Nys has spent a busy year racing on the road for Lidl-Trek, taking one victory in the spring and making his Tour de France debut in the summer.
Despite balancing his ambitions on the road – where he only wrapped up racing at the end of August – Nys is racing a long cyclocross season, starting on Saturday. He will have only missed two weekends of racing, and starts much earlier than his multidiscipline counterparts like Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert.
Nys made his Grand Tour debut in the summer, and although he had a difficult time at the Tour – he said he spoke to fellow CX rider Emiel Verstrynge during the race not about CX, but about “the misery we’d…
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