Tour de France
For Adrie van der Poel, the trend of cyclists becoming increasingly thinner is a thorn in the side.
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Van der Poel senior believes that the modern cyclist is far too sharp and that health is gradually becoming a problem. This sensitive subject is discussed in a discussion with Nathan Van Hooydonck, who has stopped due to heart problems, in De Avondetappe.
“In the past, almost all female cyclists had anorexia and when I look at today’s cyclists, I almost get scared when I see them walking. They are already so thin and all the food has to be weighed. I am glad that Mathieu eats a greasy hamburger every now and then and that he doesn’t care regarding that nutrition app. When I look at the Tour, I see cyclists of 1.80 meters with a weight of 60 kilograms. That is really not healthy.”
Van Hooydonck counters: “Mathieu can go eat a hamburger because he is exceptionally talented. If other riders do that, they are no longer competing to win. You race to win and to get the best out of yourself, don’t you?”
Tom Dumoulin also puts his two cents in. “At Visma-Lease a bike they have gone extremely far in the nutrition story and they have achieved enormous results with it. So that is fantastic of course.”
For Van der Poel, nutrition is just one aspect of the whole story. “It’s not just nutrition, but also the altitude training (…). A lot has changed in cycling in a very short period of time.”
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