{"id":231683,"date":"2026-03-05T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/ill-arrive-at-the-start-with-more-question-marks-than-i-had-hoped-wout-van-aert-prepares-for-voyage-into-the-dark-at-strade-bianche\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:28:13","slug":"ill-arrive-at-the-start-with-more-question-marks-than-i-had-hoped-wout-van-aert-prepares-for-voyage-into-the-dark-at-strade-bianche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/ill-arrive-at-the-start-with-more-question-marks-than-i-had-hoped-wout-van-aert-prepares-for-voyage-into-the-dark-at-strade-bianche\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I\u2019ll arrive at the start with more question marks than I had hoped’ – Wout van Aert prepares for voyage into the dark at Strade Bianche"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After illness poleaxed his opening race in the Classics campaign <\/a>then bad luck marred his ‘Plan B’ start to the season, Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike)<\/a> has admitted that he’ll be travelling to Strade Bianche <\/a>on Saturday with more doubts than he’d like about how he feels the race could play out.<\/p>\n

A former winner back in 2020 who also captured a Giro d’Italia stage across those same gravel roads of Tuscany in 2025<\/a>, Van Aert hasn’t raced Strade Bianche since 2021, and times have definitely changed since then.<\/p>\n

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