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Sam Bewley and Brent Bookwalter react to Wout Van Aert’s decision to leave the 2023 Tour De France, where he did not pick up a stage win for the first time in his Tour career. #NBCSports #Cycling #TourdeFrance
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Wout van Aert leaves 2023 Tour de France to be with pregnant wife | Cycling on NBC Sports
Umm excuse me my country is on fire right now….
Well, this is his job. And just like any other job would let him take leave for his sons birth, jumbo did also. The person that this will truly impact, is me, cause i want him in the race. But, ill get over it
Job done, family time
He's done his job … and done it better than anyone.
Is this a make good for Bob Roll’s awful comments during the live broadcast?
This was really well said on everyone’s parts and I think brought up all the important points! Happy for the guy.
What none of the TV people said or got right: Wout’s decision was right and admirable whether his team needed him or not! Nobody goes to their deathbed wishing they’d been there for their team instead of their child’s birth.
Sounds like the team just doesn’t need Wout anymore…
Congratulations Wout on your new baby as well as doing such an amazing job during the tour!! I enjoyed watching you crush out there.
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Congratulations to Wout. I hope the kid and mother have an easy and healthy birth. I look forward to seeing him do the Tour again next year.
Jumbo and Jonas will do just fine in last flat stages.
What a great man!
Well it’s not the first time a person got in the way of an athlete this year.
That being said, congratulations and good for him!
The man paid his dues
Congratulations on the decision and the birth of your son
Then why even bother.
Wout is Waooo! such an amazing Cyclist! well deserved Van
He could’ve won on the Champs-Elysées.
The announcer who criticized Wout leaving was rude and diminished a woman giving birth, that she could do it on her own and doctors would be present. We are always told that this is a team sport and his team supported him, why should you question it? Wout is putting his family first, after doing his job, I applaud him and shame on you for thinking you know better, your arrogance is appalling. Congratulations to Sarah and Wout!! Shame on you commentator.
Just pull out next time dude.
Vingegard☝️
Abandon your teammates? How classy
He had to leave. And the team didn't just LET him go….. they surely TOLD him he had to go.
Because in this new world of disturbed, angry, vengeful keyboard warriors, if she had gone into labor without him at her bedside, both he and Jumbo-Visma would have been deluged with an onslaught of ignorant, mysogonist, woke criticism.
The cost to him and his sponsors would be FAR worse than any benefit of him remaining in the race — which is quite substantial
Wout was seen leaving on his large magic carpet.
Might explain why WVA elected to not contest the green jersey competition this year. He and his team knew all along that there was good chance he'd not be finishing this Tour.
Good for him!
This dude is capable to win any major race
Great. Congratulations to him.
Jonas is completely going to win so Wout did his job
I understand why we have to state that the yellow Jersey being essentially locked let’s him do it like this but hopefully his team would have been equally behind it even if the race was still a 10 second difference. Sports are great and all but at the end of the day it’s a glorified game for spectators and there are certain things that happen only once in life and the birth of your kid is one of them. He’s not paid an hourly wage struggling to make ends meet so taking time to be with his family is well within his rights.
He did his job for this year. The guy honestly has the capability in my opinion to be a GC contender if he got the right team around him
Chapeau, Wout! There's always another Tour, family is more important