Cycling Worlds: “What he did is crazy” … his teammates salute the feat of Mathieu van der Poel

2023-08-06 21:13:29

He got scared, finding himself on the ground at the exit of a bend 16 km from the finish, but he was simply unbeatable. In Glasgow on Sunday, Mathieu van der Poel added a sixth rainbow jersey to his collection, the first on the road, after landing a fifth in cyclo-cross this winter. And as in the fields, the Dutchman overtook his eternal rival, the Belgian Wout van Aert, who again fails in second place, as in 2020.