Van Aert will not start his CX season until late December

Waiting for Pidcock or Van der Poel to announce their cyclocross calendars for the 2024-25 season, if they ultimately decide to compete, it has been the Belgian Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) who was the first to reveal when and where he will make his debut this season.

Wout van Aert will have a training camp in Spain and only then could start in CX

After the accident that forced him to abandon La Vuelta a España 2024 on September 3, Van Aert has been focused on resting and recovering. But now he has started outlining the schedule for his preparation and first competitions.

This has been confirmed by Jan Boven, coach of Visma Lease a Bike, to Wielerflits: "Wout will now go to Spain for two and a half weeks to train" "After that we will sit down together (to determine his competition calendar), but he would only start after the team's training camp that ends on December 19."

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If he wanted to take advantage of some dates from the Cyclocross World Cup Calendar before the end of the year, Van Aert could debut in Hulst, Netherlands, on December 21, in Zonhoven, Belgium, on the 22nd, or in Gavere, Belgium on the 26th. This would leave him at least a month of competition before the World Championships held in Liévin, France, at the end of January, if he ultimately decides to try to win a title he has won up to 3 times, the last one in 2018.