We’ve seen him flirt with triathlon before once in an episode of Average Rob, and just two weeks ago he was spotted training with Olympic road race champion Greg Van Avermaet, who at the time was preparing for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Marbella. Yet despite all that, Mathieu van der Poel still hasn’t actually started a triathlon of his own. If it’s up to training partner Freddy Ovett, that won’t take much longer: only about five thousand more likes are needed at the moment of writing.
Ovett’s post has already racked up nearly 95,000 likes – at this time, Nov 18, 4:50pm cest – in which the pro cyclist declares that Van der Poel will finally do a triathlon if the post hits 100,000 likes. And that number is climbing fast. Van der Poel, who seems to win just about everything there is to win in cycling on his Canyon – both on the road and beyond – already runs regularly (and at impressively high speeds). He’s hinted before that he could see himself doing a triathlon someday.