Van Aert must disappoint national coach: Visma star officially skips World Cycling Championships in Rwanda
CyclingFriday, 08 August 2025 at 11:42
Visma | Lease a Bike confirmed last week that Wout van Aert will be at the start of the Tour of Germany. The rest of his season was still up in the air: it wasn't clear if he'd be at the World Cycling Championships in Rwanda. Now, the 30-year-old Belgian has made up his mind: his schedule is filling up again, but the world championships won't fit in.
Visma announced this on Friday. Less than four weeks after the Tour de France, which he ended so fantastically with a magnificent victory on the Champs-Elysées, Van Aert will start in the Tour of Germany, which will be held between August 20 and 24. Later this month, he will make an appearance in the Bretagne Classic-Ouest France, a race he won in 2022.
After that, it will be time for a trip outside Europe: according to rumors, Van Aert would participate in the one-day classics in Canada, and these rumors have now been confirmed. Both the GP de Québec and the GP de Montréal are on the program for the man from Herentals. It will be his second time traveling to North America for racing: in 2022, he finished fourth in Quebec before taking silver in Montreal two days later. For the final race of his year, he will travel to his home country, where the Super 8 Classic will be his last race on September 20.
Read more below the photo!
Racing in Germany, France, Canada, and Belgium, but not in Rwanda
The World Championships in Rwanda on September 28 will therefore be skipped, much to the disappointment of national coach Serge Pauwels. He saw that Van Aert's performance on Montmartre was promising for the race in Kigali, but the Visma rider will not be starting. “It’s important to still set important goals for the last part of the season,” Van Aert said in a press release. “With this calendar, we’ve certainly succeeded. At the same time, after such a packed season, it’s crucial not to overdo it.”
"That's why we have decided to end my season after the Super 8 Classic and skip both the World Championships and the European Championships." The European Cycling Championships in the Ardèche will therefore also be skipped. There was also a nice course for the cyclo-cross rider there, but it no longer fit into the program.
Write a comment
IDL-productions
Course and results Arctic Race of Norway 2025 | Pidcock gets perfect course, but Corbin starts strong in Norway
Course and results Tour of Burgos 2025 | Bisiaux takes over GC lead – Here's what's still to come
Course and results Tour of Poland 2025 | Magnier dominates, GC contenders expect to shine on Friday!
Ferrand-Prévot surprises not just Visma | Lease a Bike, but especially her rivals: "She didn’t even breathe"
Vollering’s team gears up for a turnaround: "The question is whether we’ll ever see this Ferrand-Prévot again"
Latest Cycling News
EF turned Tour into "most fun race ever", but shifts gears for fall: "Let's see how many mistakes we can make"
Pedersen sets sights on surprising fall goal: "Might be my only chance ever"
Vollering slams media after questions about weight and emphasizes setting an example for young riders
"Really looking forward to that stage": Uijtdebroeks and Visma | Lease a Bike caution ahead of epic final day
Soudal-Quick Step has every reason to feel optimistic despite Evenepoel's departure: "I want to take some more wins"
Popular Cycling News
Storer reveals Pogacar held back behind Arensman in Tour: "Wanted to keep the French on his side"
Turner wins stage 3 of Tour de Poland, but victory overshadowed by neutralization and Lapeira's withdrawal
Course and results Tour of Poland 2025 | Magnier dominates, GC contenders expect to shine on Friday!
Course and results Tour of Burgos 2025 | Bisiaux takes over GC lead – Here's what's still to come
Lefevere (“Please don't call me”) and Bakelants react to Evenepoel's transfer: "He's sending a strange signal"
Latest Comments
- All they learned is that at the end of a 3 week race, Wout can beat him on a slightly bumpy stage. Obviously, this is very much thanks to Wout not racing for GC every day. This doesn't teach them a thing for Jonas beating Pogi. Not saying Jonas will never beat him again. But this absolutely won't have anything to do with it if he does beat him.Veganpotter28-07-2025
- Well, he eventually Pogacar pays the price for his insane spring campaign which was really crazyRosenkohl196125-07-2025
- Maybe I was a bit disrespectful to Heiden. What he did was unique and exceptional but he wasn't the only one who combined those distances, nowadays it is just not possible and nobody competes in both distances. The same is true for cycling with for example the combination of Roubaix and de Tour de France. In Merckx era there were more riders who managed a top10 in both races than currently.Joostmehrtens19-06-2025
- Two old men shouting at pigeons in the park…JonS16-06-2025
- Out of touch old men hankering after their youth through rose tinted spectacles, their arrogance almost outshines their irrelevance. Turn the volume down, this modern stuff just isn't music like we used to sing...johnny20whales16-06-2025
- In talking speed skating, the days when Heiden did that, nobody else did that. And Eddy couldn't do the equivalent of the bike. His 200 on the velodrome was good, but not world competitive for gold. Heiden was in his own world on the ice, moreso than Eddy if we pretend Eric didn't have a very short career on the ice.Veganpotter16-06-2025
- They wouldn't have dropped HIM so easily.... the GOAT. They would have dropped the rest from that era easily thoughVeganpotter16-06-2025
- Merckx was able to win in a break away on a flat (sprinters) stage, what do you mean they did not drop that easily in his time. Vlaeminck won in the mountains and the classics, but now you need to specialise. The days that a Eric Heiden could win the sprint and the 10k and everything in between are long gone and cycljng is no differentJoostmehrtens16-06-2025
- Carsapaz and Del torro were not capable of chasing Yates. They paused and looked at each other because they didn't have it in them. Yates had kept his powder dry waiting for this stage and demolished both of them. They lost Yates won. Your second guessing is utter nonsense., if either felt they could close Yates down they would have , just like they did countless times for other riders. They blew up , Yates excelled.Uphillbilly05-06-2025
- Carapaz is full of it. He is absolutely irrelevant after a rant at del Toro. Isaac had no obligations to do anything for Carapaz. It should remind one of the saying that goes lke this: "If I jump off the bridge, are you going to jump too?" If Caapaz wanted to win the Giro he should have chased Yates with or without Isaac. And if del Toro could follow, then so be it. But it was Carapaz's choice to slow down and stare at Isaac. Isaac was on the radio at times and you can bet he was being told by the Team car to do just what he was doing. Did I like that he didn't set out after Yates himself, NO. But the 21 year old was probably being instructed to do what he did, otherwise you can bet we would have heard from UAE mgmt. that Isaac chose to ignore their orders. But what we did hear was they were happy with his result. Which I think was a terrible betrayal of their young rider, who I think was capable of more than that penultimate stage showed. The Giro finished on a truly sour note as far as I'm concerned, because it was not "raced" The most crucial stage of the whole 21 stage race was simply given away, playing games with the unwritten rules of bicycle racing. "Leaders jerseys responsibility" and all that nonsense. Just RACE! It was disgraceful.
reemmo004-06-2025