Ronde van Vlaanderen 2026, monument, April 5 (men's)

[Salvarani]

Looked like MVDP might have tired inbetween here

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Van der Poel went into the red trying to close the gap on the second half of Kwaremont and it's showing now.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Will someone at the organization think about a route reshuffle?

They could have pulled a Grand Prix Alanya and called it off at the bottom of Kwaremont.

 

[dazaau]

Those wide shoulders and handlebars are screwing mvdp now. Aero as a fridge.

 

[Berniece]

Sporza comms currently berating Van der Poel for riding like an idiot. The era of constant praise for working with the obvious winner may finally, slowly, be ending.

Yes who knows in 5 years when Pogi is done

 

[houtdffan]

Remco completely blew up on that climb

 

[Poursuivant]

MVDP cook himself?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Amazing World TT champs, this

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Commentators extremely excited cause Pogi looks like hes trying...

ok

"What are we watching, Robbie?"
"Entertainment at its best"

This is like when soccer pundits don't understand why people are bored at watching a top team demolish a lower league team 6-0 because they're people who have played the game and so always aspire to playing the game that well and seeing it played to such a high standard is something that they swoon at; therefore they can't comprehend that other people who watch for entertainment would not be entertained by a foregone conclusion.

 

[meat puppet]

Of course it was over, I mean wtf

 

[No Excuses]

Remco lost big time on the Kwaremont

 

[Tim Cahill]

Van Aert catching Evenepoel would be quite funny

 

[dobrien]

MvdP ended the Kwaremony stronger than expected after getting dropped on the first 50m

Is that like a much more painful Ceremony? 😊

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Will someone at the organization think about a route reshuffle?

But how will they pass the VIP tent 87 times without the Kwaremont-Paterberg finale?

 

[Salvarani]

Van Aert catching Evenepoel would be quite funny

Van Aert always need another 50km

 

[canina82]

16" gap! Not over!

 

[saunaking]

Mission accomplished for MVDP, Teddy won't snub him at the finish for not riding

 

[ice&fire]

But how will they pass the VIP tent 87 times without the Kwaremont-Paterberg finale?

Downhill!

 

[Brumdog66]

Could have genuinely been different if mvdp had waited for remco

 

[ngent41]

Remco completely blew up on that climb

that's remco's signature move

 

[MJR]

Amazed that moto is behind Pog.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

15 seconds would have been possibly doable had he had Evenepoel with him, and his DS should spend a lot of time reminding him between now and next year's race.

 

[red_flanders]

Hey, great race. All the big stars showed out. Nothing surprising, but still very watchable race of attrition with some guys really hanging in at the end of their tether. Enjoying it.

 

[awavey]

Hmm, Robbie just casually borrowing Faithless lyrics in comms as if he'd just profoundly written then 🤔

 

[AmRacer]

Mathieu and Pogi were 20 sec slower third time up