Van der Poel’s control in Roubaix is as brutal as that of Flanders
The same as a week ago in Flanders, the same as Harelbeke, the same as in everything he participates in, what happened with Mathieu Van der Poel on the way to Roubaix is a level I have never seenanother league, something that, as happens with Pogacar in the rounds, is unprecedented to me.
Today, in Paris-Roubaix we have witnessed something historic, a way to tame the most complicated race on the calendar than all the uncertainty, everything we expect from this test remains in the past.
It’s like that, there are no two ways about it, Mathieu Van der Poel is completing everything that was expected of him, with the difficulty that this entails, when you are so pointing out, but he is doing it, in a big, effective way, in a perfect balance of spectacle and strategy, accompanied, once again, by magnificent teamwork.
These are all the keys, these are the credentials of a guy who follows Tom Boonen and Fabian Cancellaradoubling in the queens of the cobblestone, as they did ten years ago, winning in the rainbow in the velodrome like Peter Sagan and Bernard Hinault, and accumulating six monuments that place him one above Tadej Pogacar.
Take note of the names I have mentioned to size the work of Poupou’s grandson and Adrie’s son.
The other day Johan Bruyneel told us about it, he met the child’s father at a cyclocross in December and told him «Johan, Mathieu is scary«.
Thus, the road to Roubaix was seen as sixty from the finish line, with an attack in a section of the secondary, but key at the end, past Arenberg, where he already showed off his power, and before Mons-en- Pévele.
Sixty from the finish line, the race was decided and only the contest for second place remained.
The Alpecin dance then followed, the same one that had prevented long-range escapes, because Mathieu did not want them.
The blues controlled the show with the octopus Gianni Vermeerchs, on all wheelsand the intimidation of Jasper Philipsen, Mathieu’s partner who, if you take him to the wheel, will surely ruin one of the places on the podium.
Alpecin has won three of three monuments and even though some doubted the world champion team.
Two Roubaix in the box, three Flanders, last year’s San Remowe are witnessing big history, a guy who represents a generation called to break down the doors of history, a cyclist named Mathieu Van der Poel, the lighthouse of our times.
And now, see what “che Cosa fa” in the Ardennes.
Image: ASO/Pauline Ballet
2024-04-07 15:46:31
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