Must say it's long road to go when VDP has to almost double ranking points pcs/uci to reach Boonen level performance. He's advancing atm but does he have mental stamina to go that long like say 14 seasons?
If you live in Belgium CX matters alot. And it has produced some strong road cyclists, latest one being Thibau Nys. You may not care, but it is special that someone can be dominant in three different disciplines. Seeing his power and technical brilliance in CX is, at least for me, a thing of beauty.
So according to some people, VdP in the future will have a better palmares than Merckx.
And that's probably the reason for his limited spring schedule, already stoping after PR as I understand it. He will do MTB in May.
Pog vs MVDP at Gravel WCs would be interesting but won’t happen until they resolve the scheduling conflict with Lombardia.
With all due respect to Gravel WC, Lombardia has much more prestige. It's a monument.
Pog was actually reconning the gravel worlds course in nice a few months ago so there was some hope but now it’s been cancelled who knows where it will be…
I agree with all that and Pog is never going to sacrifice a monument for what is still relatively speaking a gimmick.
And a race he is clearly the favorite every year.
Not sure who’s the lightest rider to ride PR in the last 25 years but Pidcock rode last year and his PCS weight is 58 kg. He finished 17th, more than 6 mins down on MVDP.
I found Knaven by looking through it on PCS.
Because Narvaez already cooked himself trying to get him and Pogi to the front while Wellens was pulling all out.
I guess it will always be pretty difficult to go into Cipressa perfectly.
Pogacar was supposed to attack 20 seconds later.
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