Lotto control have made it transparent that Arnaud De Lie’s participation within the upcoming Opening Weekend at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad isn’t in peril regardless of his contemporary knee harm led to through a coaching crash.
De Lie needed to put off the beginning of his season, set to start out this weekend in Spain on the one-day GP Castellon and Clâssica Comunitat Valenciana 24 hours later on account of the knee harm. Thankfully, the effects have grew to become out to be minor, his workforce say, and his race time table long term is probably not affected.
Belgian nationwide champion De Lie remains to be simplest 22. However his 2nd position regardless of a crash in his first-ever participation in 2023 at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the curtain-raiser each for the Global Excursion in Europe and for Belgian racing every season, to not point out his speedy upward thrust since then throughout the biking hierarchy of speedy finishers, mix to make him a stand-out favorite for the Omloop.
“I also do not think that this will have an influence on his performance in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Arnaud has to take it a bit easier for a few days to let everything heal properly, but he will not fall behind in terms of condition because of it.”
After the not on time begin to his program, De Lie will nonetheless get started his 12 months on the Étoile des Bessèges degree race, working from February 5-9. He’s going to then practice that up with the Volta ao Algarve (February 19-23) ahead of heading to Belgium for Opening Weekend and OHN on March 1.
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