They wanted to compete with Van der Poel but they achieved much more, the best CX video you'll see this week

Their Youtube channel has hundreds of thousands of followers and both are very popular for their sports challenges,  so much so that they already have several videos with World Champions, such as Van der Poel or Evenepoel. This time the challenge was to be at the start line of the Diegem night Cross with the rest of the UCI elite cyclists, but what they achieved was much better.

 The best cyclocross video you'll see this week

Average Rob and Arno the Kid set out to be UCI elite cyclocross cyclists in just 30 days to be able to start the Diegem Superprestige alongside Mathieu van der Poel and Thomas Pidcock, among others. And although their physical form was at the other end of a professional cyclist's, the truth is that it was the UCI regulations that frustrated their plans to compete with the rest of the elite.

The Diegem test is perhaps the most media-covered of the entire cyclocross season since its night schedule coincides with the peak television audience and the live broadcast has 1 million viewers. In addition, this test has the peculiarity that it leaves 1 hour between the women's race and the men's race due to a Belgian series that is broadcast at that time and is immovable from the television schedule. Incredible.

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But the determination of Rob and Arno did not stop and they managed to talk to the organizers of Diegem to let them organize an amateur test between the women's and men's race. Thus was born the first Turbo Cross of Diegem. An "amateur" cyclocross race (among the participants were friends, former professional cyclists and other athletes) that was contested over 2 laps of the official circuit and had the encouragement of 26,000 fans on the circuit and an audience of 400,000 users through Sporza's streaming.

Among the viewers was Mathieu van der Poel who followed the race from the Alpecin bus with the rest of his teammates before he himself started in the Superprestige a few minutes later.

Without a doubt a very fun video full of interesting details that you should not miss. Although it is in English, it can be subtitled and automatically translated in the Youtube player.

If you want more, you can't miss this other video in which Van der Poel acts as a mountain bike teacher for them and gets involved in a final bet that will put him in a tight spot.