{"id":317713,"date":"2025-08-04T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:37:10","slug":"its-amazing-to-say-ive-been-teammates-with-both-wout-and-mathieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317713\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to say I\u2019ve been teammates with both Wout and Mathieu\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Aert\u2019s team-first mentality left a lasting impression on Tulett earlier this season during the Cl\u00e1sica Ja\u00e9n Paraiso Interior<\/a>, where the Belgian star sacrificed his own ambitions to support the younger rider. \u201cIn that race, he completely committed to helping me. It was surreal. Of course, in the moment, you\u2019re just focused on executing the plan, but afterwards, it really hit me \u2014 a great champion had gone all in to help me. That says everything about who Wout is.\u201dTulett\u2019s admiration for Van Aert stretches back to his teenage years, and the respect clearly runs deep, with the Brit even placing his Belgian above Mathieu van der Poel<\/a>, who Tulett previously raced with at Alpecin-Fenix. \u201cAlongside Wout, Mathieu van der Poel was another rider I looked up to \u2014 but Wout was the idol,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be able to say I\u2019ve been teammates with both of them.\u201dTulett\u2019s own journey hasn\u2019t been without setbacks. His first season with Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike was riddled with bad luck \u2014 untimely illnesses and a crash at the Vuelta a Burgos that left him with a fractured shoulder blade meant he missed last year\u2019s Vuelta entirely. \u201cIt was a difficult year, no doubt. The results didn\u2019t really come, and missing the Vuelta was tough. But I\u2019ve learned to bounce back from disappointment. Those challenges made me a stronger rider \u2014 and a better person.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, Tulett is approaching his racing with fresh motivation and clear targets. After a three-week altitude training camp in Tignes, he\u2019ll race the Tour de l\u2019Ain before heading back to altitude ahead of the Vuelta a Espana. \u201cI\u2019m really excited. The Vuelta is my biggest goal of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite still being just 23, Tulett is steadily carving out a leadership role within one of the world\u2019s strongest teams. His overall win at the Settimana Coppi e Bartali and a string of strong results in 2024 haven\u2019t gone unnoticed \u2014 securing him a new two-year deal with the Dutch squad.<\/p>\n

But even as his star rises, Tulett remains grounded \u2014 anchored by the humility and work ethic of the very riders he once watched in awe. \u201cWout sets such an example. Whether he\u2019s winning or riding in support of others, he\u2019s completely committed. That\u2019s something I try to carry into my own racing every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

And soon, as the roads steepen in Spain, Ben Tulett will aim to do just that \u2014 ride not only for his leaders, but with the quiet determination of someone who\u2019s learned from the very best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Van Aert\u2019s team-first mentality left a lasting impression on Tulett earlier this season during the Cl\u00e1sica Ja\u00e9n Paraiso…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317713","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\/114971714929831247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317713","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=317713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}