Wout van Aert still has doubts over knee injury at Tour de France

Stage winner yellow jersey of overall leader and green jersey of best climber JumboVisma teams Belgian Wout Van Aert celebrates on the podium after he won the fifth stage of the 74th edition of the Criterium du Dauphine cycling race 1625 km between ThizylesBourgs and Chaintre central eastern France on June 9 2022 Photo by Marco BERTORELLO AFP Photo by MARCO BERTORELLOAFP via Getty Images
Van Aert in the green jersey at the Critérium du Dauphiné (Image credit: MARCO BERTORELLOAFP via Getty Images)

Wout van Aert appeared to give himself a clean bill of health on Tuesday when he published details of a training ride and declared that the pain in his knee had gone.

As he sat down in front of the media on Wednesday to discuss his Tour de France ambitions, things appeared far less clear, and the Belgian himself a good deal more pessimistic.

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Patrick Fletcher

Patrick is a freelance sports writer and editor. He’s an NCTJ-accredited journalist with a bachelor’s degree in modern languages (French and Spanish). Patrick worked full-time at Cyclingnews for eight years between 2015 and 2023, latterly as Deputy Editor.