Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is willing in 2022 to “earn less to be able to get bigger races” and in the coming season he aspires to win a victory in some cycling “monument” and to win the green jersey of the Tour de France. “I have the desire and the ambition to win a monument this year,” he said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday by Belgian public broadcaster RTBF Van Aert, 27 years old and winner in 2021 of thirteen road victories in 2020, including three stages. colossal in the Tour.
“In 2021 I won many great races, but in cycling monuments, I always missed something, it was played in the details. I am ready to earn less, in quantity, in 2022 to be able to obtain bigger races, said the teammate of the Slovenian Primo Roglic, who this season will be co-leader of the team in the Tour together with the Danish Jonas Vingegaard.
In the Gallic round, where in the last edition he took the Mont-Ventoux mountain stage, the Saint-Emilion time trial and the final sprint of the Champs-Élysées, Van Aert wants this year to finish with the green jersey that rewards the regularity and that last year the British Mark Cavendish won.
“I don’t know what is better and how to do it better in the Tour de France. Maybe win the green jersey? I don’t know if it’s better than my three stage wins in 2021“said the Belgian Flemish, who recognized that one of his” great ambitions for the summer “is” to be on the Tour and to be able to do something there. “In 2020 I dedicated myself 100% to Primoz Roglic, in 2021 I had the goal of the Olympic Games that came after the Tour. 2022 is now a good year, the time has come to try to win that green jersey “, concluded the cyclist, a silver medalist on the road at the Tokyo Olympic Games and a specialist also in cyclo-cross, with world champion titles in 2016, 2017 and 2018.