WOUT POELS: PERSPECTIVE
https://soigneur.nl/stories/wout-poels-perspective/?fbclid=IwAR1Xp3Ya9auLERKbnY0ESyAVbx6vHgep6nqbw8oY570I30wosDGROoeXpL8 Soigneur, 27 December 2019 After five ‘safe’ years at Team Sky/Ineos , Wout Poels is headed off in a new direction. At Bahrain-McLaren , he hopes to go for stage wins at the Tour. Robin van der Kloor and Patrick Delait from De Limburger sat down with him to speak about the hardships he has gone through in his life and how he has made an art out of putting things into perspective. “I don’t want to be a lost soul for years and years,” he says. Are you leaving the best team in the world willingly? I could have just stayed and done my thing, but I want to win a stage in the Tour, Giro, or Vuelta too. At Bahrain-McLaren, I’ll get that chance, whereas I was a bit stuck at Ineos. I did the same trick there for five years. Did success become boring? It wasn’t boring, but it didn’t feel very special this year anymore either. You got to the ...