What distance should he take? Why would he not encourage? What you should or need to know about Campenaerts’ appointment with history

Cycling Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx, Moser, Indurain, Wiggins and soon, Victor Campenaerts? The 27-year-old man from antwerp Lotto-Soudal has today one appointment with history. To 18 hours of our time (11 pm Mexican time), he falls the world hour record. Do better than 54,526 miles is the challenge. A few things that you should or should know in the run-up to the ‘hour of truth’. Campenaerts prepared obsessively for. Can it still go wrong?

“Objectively speaking, there is nothing why it would not work,” replied Campenaerts itself to the question above. “Only I, of course, have a good day.” And so a good day is not in order. Kevin De Weert, performance manager at Lotto-Soudal: “Victor is not a robot. The form of the day will be much determine. A bad night's sleep can be fatal. Because it remains Bradley Wiggins that he has to be right. His victory in Tirreno-Adriatico Victor or virtue done. His first tijdritzege on WorldTourniveau: that gave me a huge boost. And he has his testing times are seen, of course, that looked also very good.”

the preparation of Campenaerts will already not have. The rider of Lotto-Soudal has meticulously prepared for his attack on the world hour record, among others, during a hoogtestage of two months in Namibia. “Better than anyone ever before”, says pistier Kenny De Ketele. Read HERE all about the months-long preparation of ‘Vocsnor’.