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James Moultrie

Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert nearing top shape at Tour de France for Paris Olympics

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) at the 2024 Tour de France.

As he eyes adding an Olympic gold medal to his illustrious palmarès, Mathieu van der Poel claims he is in better shape at the 2024 Tour de France than he was in the lead-up to becoming World Champion last season.

Van der Poel has one day less between the end of the Tour and his big goal of the summer than he did in 2023, with 13 days from the final stage in Nice and the men’s Olympic road race in Paris on Saturday, August 3.

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