Monday, December 19, 2022 at 11:59

Michel Wuyts also found the cross calendar to be too full. In the column for Latest news Wuyts agrees with Sven Nys. “A World Cup with eight crosses is enough. Whoever built it did it for the tribe. Not on the breeding crown. 300,000 euros for crosses abroad cannot be handled every year.”

“Five of those World Cup crosses had to go abroad, the other three with us. With competitions for juniors and appointments. Young people are now eliminated in nine of the fourteen World Cup races and are mostly out of school. It’s embarrassing,” he continued.

According to Wuyts, the order rankings were now so confusing that he didn’t know who was leading them at the moment. “Classifications missed their target. They don’t crown rulers. In the end they just pulled to collect euros. By the men and women of the higher sub-top. In the perception of TV viewers, ratings are optional.”

“There are several reasons, he continued. “The real high flyers – Van der Poel, Van Aert and Pidcock – are so versatile that they take the ranking for granted. They race where their program allows and starting money smiles at them. Also in the World Cup. Not even a bold prediction: Fem van Epel and Shirin van Anrooij will also follow that path. They are also too flexible to use the Full Monty in winter. Young Dutch women rarely do doubles on weekends.

In addition, Wuyts calls a crowded cross calendar a “breakdown model.” “Extending yourself twice a week and every day during the Christmas period is your purest model of undoing. Only full-time passers over the years have dared to do that. Van der Haar, Vanthourenhout, Adams types. Sort and periodize younger athletes. Cut, leaderboard, no heartbreak. Passing generates long-term profits. Whoever deletes it is just smart,” he concluded.