{"id":166680,"date":"2025-06-08T04:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166680\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:09:11","slug":"the-wrist-is-still-a-bit-sensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166680\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrist is still a bit sensitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful spring, we saw <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/mathieu-van-der-poel\" title=\"Mathieu van der Poel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> return to mountain bikes &#8211; but with not as many achievements. In his only World Cup start, the Dutchman fell twice, injuring his wrist in the process. But if we thought that&#8217;d stop the phenomenon, we couldn&#8217;t have been more wrong. Just two weeks later, Van der Poel is ready at the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\" title=\"Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a>, an important preparation race with view to Tour de France.Against all predictions, Van der Poel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/cycling\/confirmed-mathieu-van-der-poel-joins-pogacar-at-criterium-du-dauphine-2025\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">recovery was super-fast<\/a>. &#8220;Luckily I was able to resume training away from home quite quickly,&#8221; he said in a pre-Dauphin\u00e9 press release. &#8220;The wrist is still a bit sensitive, but there is no real pain anymore. I avoided the efforts at full power and the sprints, that still felt like a bit too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a successful spring, we saw Mathieu van der Poel return to mountain bikes &#8211; but with not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114645785914990030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}