It was an absolute drama of a spring for Wout van Aert. If in his case we can even talk about a spring. After all, on his fourth race and before the big goals were due, things went completely wrong.
Financial consequences
Then we are of course talking about the heavy crash in which Van Aert suffered numerous fractures and saw the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix fall into the water. A major sporting blow, but of course this also had consequences elsewhere. Such as in the financial field, for example.
Because barely or no races means barely or no prize money. At least, compared to the other top players. Earlier this week it was said that Van Aert would have won around 15,000 euros in prize money – he would mainly owe this to a win in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne – but that turns out not to be true.
Van der Poel big earner
After all, they claim at Het Laatste Nieuws that Van Aert has to make do with half as much after the past few months. After all, they are talking about an amount of 8,000 euros. Compared to Mathieu van der Poel, almost 85 thousand euros, as said, a big difference. Jasper Philipsen and Tadej Pogacar complete the top three.
Now it is not the case that Van Aert will have to despair. 8,000 euros is in any case a nice amount for the average person, and there is also his fixed annual salary of around 2 million euros.
