{"id":684557,"date":"2026-01-09T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684557\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:31:14","slug":"the-blows-for-picnic-postnl-keep-coming-nils-eekhoff-sidelined-for-foreseeable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684557\/","title":{"rendered":"The blows for Picnic PostNL keep coming; Nils Eekhoff sidelined for foreseeable future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutchman best known for having infamously not won the 2019 under-23 World Championships road race, won the Danilith Nokere Koerse in 2025, but will have to forget about defending his title the upcoming spring as he was diagnosed with a flow restriction in the iliac arteries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nils Eekhoff will undergo surgery next week, after which he will begin an extensive rehabilitation process. As a result, he will be out of competition for the foreseeable future. We wish you a smooth recovery Nils, and hope that if all goes well, you\u2019ll be race ready by May,&#8221; the team shared a brief message via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/picnicpostnl\/status\/2009264434837876797\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dutchman best known for having infamously not won the 2019 under-23 World Championships road race, won the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,207232,79,193170,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-nils-eekhoff","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-team-picnic-postnl","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865392389175600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684557","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=684557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}