In the 2021 Strade Bianche, new ways of doing things prevailed in cycling
Things started far from the finish line, the 2021 Strade Bianche had had certain clashes in which everyone was positioning themselves.
I remember that it was the first race of the year for Wout Van Aert, number one on his back, and I don’t know if it was any other of the favorites.
The test was going quickly to the Siena circus until it blew up, I remember it like this:
When 50 kilometers from Siena and its Campo that looks without people these days, at the exit of a stretch of land, the Strade Bianche 2021 jumped into the air, We had one certainty: that movement had occurred to stay, to be definitive.
And it was, nothing was ever the same again, well ahead, there was not one, not a single one of those who asks for help, who looks back, who recriminates relays.
Wout Van Aert led the scramble, Alaphilippe, Van der Poel, Pogacar, Pidcock and Egan Bernal, among others, overlapped him.
They wiped out what was left of the breakaway led by Greg Van Aevermaet with Quinn Simmons, the very good-natured and fluent American, and Davide Formolo.
That’s where the Strade Bianche 2021 began, the race that many debate whether it is a monument, when to be a monument you have to be debated between the seven monsters that still had options twenty from the finish line.
That was from that same Saturday afternoon, carried away by the emotion of having witnessed a major race.
Not even the old people in the place remembered anything like that, a getaway between seven and the seven great stars, who understand each other and take the bet to the end.
Julian Alaphilippe was a dancer that day, perhaps confident because here, two years before, he had beaten Fuglsang.
He attacked before anyone else, but seven monsters overlapped him, among which emerged one of the most brutal Mathieu Van der Poel that I remember, in terms of very violent accelerations, gaps that were impossible to close and rivals along the way.
The shaking that the Dutchman subjected his bicycle to in the streets of Siena is one of the most superlative images of recent times, the dust that he had raised kilometers ago, another.
It was, I believe, the race that marked the turning point of this sport, the definitive assault of the new batch, since almost no one was missing in that getaway and the certainty that with these in the race, the prognosis was going to be very conditioned. , because they are cyclists without fear, without measure of distance, or remorse.
We see his way of competing today installedbut those days of March that was a blow, with the Tirreno that we would experience days later.
The 2021 Strade Bianche was the race that installed the new order.
2024-02-28 05:17:08
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