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Jul 7, 2013
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Unbelievable finish! The chasers basically had MVP on the ropes and the Dutch looked like preparing for the sprint but with 1 km to go and 2 seconds behind MVP they stopped cooperating. Well, that's also the beauty of cycling, without drafting it would be boring like ultra-marathons. Congrats to Mathieu.
 
Jun 30, 2022
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Mathieu’s best tactical move to let them think he would stop riding. It disrupted the chasers. Happy he takes it but I imagine he wouldn’t have gone so deep after all.
They had already stopped coming through about five seconds before Van der Poel pretended or actually sat up, just rather be second, then have a chance to win
 
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Jan 31, 2021
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can you really say MvdP was the imperious winner there ?

he wins because he doesnt give up, and raced solo for along time, absolutely, but the rest of the race took the stupid pills for today, theres no way he should have won the race doing that, and its not his ability that made the rest act so dumb
MVDP also took stupid pills. There was no reason for him to be solo so early (other than training impulse).
 
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Jan 31, 2021
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Van der Poel says he thought they were coming back, that was absolutely not a tactical decision to fake sitting up. They literally needed to ride for five more seconds and they ****ed it.
If they rejoin at 1km to go I think MVDP still wins the sprint. But they had to take their chance.
 
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