Impressively powerful in the Kuil de Zonhoven, Mathieu van der Poel takes off for Spain with a 10/10 in his suitcase

The world champion however rode on the defensive for around twenty minutes. Before, in a single acceleration, to make the difference. “I was quite calm in the first part, I had to find my rhythm,” he explains. “But I saw that I was almost the only one to go up through the sand, in the Kuil, by bike. So I decided to attack my opponents there.” To fly to his tenth victory of the season, in… ten events. “It’s a good score and we’ll see if I can win the other four cyclo-crosses that I have left, but only the World Championship has my priority.”

He is leaving to train again in Spain, where he will return to competition in two weeks, in Benidorm.

Van der Poel, monsieur 100%