Mathieu van der Poel won’t leave the 2024 Tour de France early to ride the mountain bike race at the Paris Olympics, with a possible debut at the Vuelta a España also on the cards, as he tries works out a complicated schedule for his busy multi-disciplined 2024 season. He faces some tough choices.
The road and cyclocross World Champion left the Tour de France after eight stages in 2021 to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics where his gold medal dreams were ended abruptly by a crash on the opening lap. He appears ready to give up on a chance of a mountain bike medal in 2024, as he focuses more and more on road racing.
