Mathieu van der Poel Finished Sixth in The Mountain Bike World Cup in Les Gets, France, On Sunday. It is a good rehearsal for the Dutch Rider Towards the World Championships, which will be Held in Switzerland in Two Weeks.
Van der Poel Made a Strong Impression by Staging a Chase Race from a Difficult Position Towards The Leading Group. He belonged to the leading group for a long time in the eight-lap race, although he Regularly had to make an effort to keep up.
In The Penultimate Round, Mathias Flückiger Launched An Acceleration That was too much for van der Poel. The Thirty-Year-Old Dutchman Possible Crossed the Finish Line in Sixth Place, One Minute Behind Winner Luca Martin. Lucao Braidot Came Second, Ahead of Number Three Flückiger.
The race in Les Gets was Van der Poel’s First and Last Test Towards The World Championships, which will be Held in Wallis, Switzerland on September 14. He said Earlier That Mainly Hoped to Finish a Mountain Bike Race Again in Les Gets.
“I felt good, but I missed the punch you need in Mountain Biking,” Said van der Poel After the Race. “With better legs there would have leg more to it. The goal was to stay on the bike, I did that. I Enjoyed it and I can be happy with this race.”
Earlier This Year, Van der Poel Already Made his Return to Mountain Biking at the World Cup in Nové Mesto in the Czech Republic. The Dutchman Fell Twice in the Opening Phase and Gave Up After Thirty Minutes. Before that, hey also crashed at the Olympic Games in Tokyo (2021) and the World Championships in Glasgow (2023).
Van der Poel Returned to Racing Last Week in The Renewi Tour, after he had to get off the bike a months Earlier in the Tour de France Due to Pneumonia. Van der Poel Finished Second in the General Classification of the Renewi Tour Behind the Belgian Arnaud de Lie.
Pieterse Tenth in Les Gets
Puck Pieterse had Lesser Legs on Sunday and finished tens in Les Gets. The Cross-Country World Champion had to conceive more than four minutes to European Champion Jenny Rissveded from Sweden.