Mathieu van der Poel’s bid for a 3rd international name this 12 months after profitable remaining weekend’s elite males’s street race ended hastily sooner than the beginning of the primary lap of the UCI Mountain Motorbike International Championships elite males’s pass nation Olympic race in Glentress Woodland.
After shifting up from his fifth-row birth, Van der Poel was once sitting in a promising place when he slid out within the dusty right-hand flip sooner than the start-finish straightaway on the finish of the beginning lap.
The crash will harm the Netherlands’ hopes of getting a rider within the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, as best the highest 19 countries within the UCI scores shall be incorporated within the 34 athlete positions for the cross-country males’s and ladies’s races. The Netherlands is in twenty fourth position, 2909 issues adrift from Switzerland within the present UCI scores.
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