Then he won in a direct duel with Van der Poel. Benidorm was by far the most tumultuous cross this winter. But for Wout van Aert (29), he will be remembered mainly as the cross in which his separate winter plan first gave visible results: in his very last cross he had his best legs. And that felt good after weeks in which he sometimes had to fight his own nature: “It was sometimes treacherous to go along with those higher expectations.”
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