It has also been a very busy spring for Ruben Van Gucht, which he will soon end with a final episode of Cycling Club Wattage. It is even more difficult for him.
Away from wife and child
After all, Van Gucht lives in Belgium while his wife Blanka Vlasic and son Mondo live in Croatia. “I’m going there next week,” he told De Tafel van Gert. “It may be an indiscreet question, but why don’t you live together, here in Belgium for example?” Gert Verhulst wondered?
“She lives in Croatia and she also has her own obligations there. It also takes a lot to be a father or mother and if you have to do that in an environment that is perhaps slightly less comfortable, where you don’t know a doctor or a mother who can come and help,” Van Gucht explained.
Van Aert
Earlier in the interview it was of course also about last spring, and also about the unfortunate Van Aert. Does Van Gucht know more about his recovery? “I have been in contact with a training buddy of his” (then we dare to suspect that he is talking about Jan Bakelants).
“But that recovery will have to happen very slowly. I do think that he will now ride the Tour in the run-up to the Olympic Games, where he will find a course that suits him,” said Van Gucht, after which Verhulst stated rather critically that Van Aert’s record could have been a bit bigger. are.
“Of course, he has often had to be slaves in the Tour, and he also – we have to be honest about that – comes up against even more talented riders such as Pogacar, Van der Poel and Evenepoel. But you won’t be able to get him down mentally.”
