Van der Poel all-in for Classics after Tour de France rejection

Alpecin-Fenix’s Mathieu van der Poel on stage 2 of the 2020 Volta ao Algarve
Alpecin-Fenix’s Mathieu van der Poel on stage 2 of the 2020 Volta ao Algarve (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Mathieu van der Poel will continue to combine road racing with mountain biking and cyclo-cross if competition resumes in the late summer and autumn, looking to keep a busy schedule after attempts to engineer a Tour de France debut proved unsuccessful. 

The Dutchman had built his 2020 campaign around the cross country mountain bike race at the Olympics in Tokyo but went back to the drawing board as the Games were pushed back a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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