Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread

[Hugo Koblet]

Do him and Wout ever crash in road races? I can’t recollect any?

Worlds '23?

 

[Ricco']

Do him and Wout ever crash in road races? I can’t recollect any?

Ronde van Vlaanderen 2019
Nokere Koerse 2019

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Although they shared a lot of peak years, it seemed like one was often hurt or perhaps had a mech/crash or something to kill the H2H several years. For example, where was Cancellara in 2012 when Boonen smashed everyone - can't recall why he wasn't in the picture that year.

He crashed in the feed zone at Flanders...and was out the rest of the spring. (broken collar bone????)

 

[Netserk]

I don't understand how pretty basic data should be dismissed as overfitting results?

Do you think number of top-4's when the other was top-2 is the pretty basic way to slice it? Not the least bit overfitted?

 

[Netserk]

Is it very specific in a way that is different from being overfitted?

 

[Netserk]

No

Okay, so you do understand that the 4 out of 7 was overfitted then.

 

[Aimar16]

Looking back, it's crazy that by 2016 QS or Lotto hadn't offered him and Wout a WT contract they couldn't refuse. Was CX really that lucrative?

MvdP is not like Sagan, who spent the whole year from January to November drilling at the front of the peloton, for which he was paid handsomely. MvdP concentrates only on the biggest races. It might have been a big risk to offer him a very big contract that he couldn't refuse. Looking back at MvdP's road results in recent years, it would have been worth the risk, but who would have predicted in 2016 that he would become the best classics rider?!

 

[tobydawq]

Okay, so you do understand that the 4 out of 7 was overfitted then.

It's only you who has a problem with that stat. I don't know what you mean by overfitted, it's true data and tells a picture.

But yeah, just keep pretending that they have never faced each other or whatever the hell narrative it is you are pushing.

 

[rghysens]

Looking back, it's crazy that by 2016 QS or Lotto hadn't offered him and Wout a WT contract they couldn't refuse. Was CX really that lucrative?

Well I think those 2, back then, got a startiing fee close to 10000€/race. Add a couple of 10k more for superprestige gc + their normal contract wages and, yes, it is thát lucrative for the top dogs.

 

[Netserk]

It's only you who has a problem with that stat. I don't know what you mean by overfitted, it's true data and tells a picture.

Is it your belief that overfitting is usually done with fake data? If not, then the data being true is irrelevant.

 

[Aimar16]

MvdP to UAE, confirmed

 

[Sciatic]

MvdP to UAE, confirmed

Tee-hee

 

[Froome]

Is there some news about his calendar?
Where he is going to start?

 

[Berniece]

Is there some news about his calendar?
Where he is going to start?

Wasn’t he going to ride Figueira Champions Classic to start?

 

[Froome]

Wasn’t he going to ride Figueira Champions Classic to start?

PCS removed Figueira champions classic. PCS just have Tour de Flandres on his profile.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Wasn’t he going to ride Figueira Champions Classic to start?

PCS removed Figueira champions classic. PCS just have Tour de Flandres on his profile.

Figueroa Champion classic is surely too soon after cyclocross worlds to get a proper break and training camp for the classics.

 

[Salvarani]

MvdP to UAE, confirmed

Best friends, best riders and the most entertaining of the entire peloton!

 

[Blanco]

Best friends, best riders and the most entertaining of the entire peloton!

Ben Healy is hands down the most entertaining rider of the whole peloton. Those two are just the best..

 

[Salvarani]

Ben Healy is hands down the most entertaining rider of the whole peloton.

No.

 

[scribers]

Ben Healy looks terrible on the bike to me. But he lit things up last spring. Looking forward to a repeat

 

[Bolder]

Ben Healy looks terrible on the bike to me. But he lit things up last spring. Looking forward to a repeat

The EF spaceman helmet and general scruffiness don't help, either. Contrast with MvdP who is basically the Platonic pro cyclist in looks and style. But all that really matters is getting the power down.

 

[Keldergoat]

Is there some news about his calendar?
Where he is going to start?

This is what Wielerflits reports. I would take it with a pinch of salt though because Algarve after de worlds CX seems like an absurdly short break to me.

Dit is het programma van Mathieu van der Poel

Overzicht Wegwielrennen, veldrijden en mountanbiken. Mathieu van der Poel is een alleskunner. Waar de veelzijdige coureur van Alpecin-Deceuninck ook start; hij wil altijd winnen. Maar welke wedstrijden rijdt hij de komende periode? Bekijk hier het wedstrijdprogramma van Mathieu van der Poel.

www.wielerflits.nl

 

[Froome]

This is what Wielerflits reports. I would take it with a pinch of salt though because Algarve after de worlds CX seems like an absurdly short break to me.

Dit is het programma van Mathieu van der Poel

Overzicht Wegwielrennen, veldrijden en mountanbiken. Mathieu van der Poel is een alleskunner. Waar de veelzijdige coureur van Alpecin-Deceuninck ook start; hij wil altijd winnen. Maar welke wedstrijden rijdt hij de komende periode? Bekijk hier het wedstrijdprogramma van Mathieu van der Poel.

www.wielerflits.nl

I also don't believe he is not going to milan san remo.....

 

[Ilmaestro99]

This is what Wielerflits reports. I would take it with a pinch of salt though because Algarve after de worlds CX seems like an absurdly short break to me.

Dit is het programma van Mathieu van der Poel

Overzicht Wegwielrennen, veldrijden en mountanbiken. Mathieu van der Poel is een alleskunner. Waar de veelzijdige coureur van Alpecin-Deceuninck ook start; hij wil altijd winnen. Maar welke wedstrijden rijdt hij de komende periode? Bekijk hier het wedstrijdprogramma van Mathieu van der Poel.

www.wielerflits.nl

If he is doing that programme, he is either not doing an Altitude camp to prepare the classics, or he is doing CX benidorm during an Altitude camp at the syncosfhera hotel on Costa del sol.

Also strange to do Algarve but skip Strade, Sanremo, e3, amstel

 

[Sciatic]

If he is doing that programme, he is either not doing an Altitude camp to prepare the classics, or he is doing CX benidorm during an Altitude camp at the syncosfhera hotel on Costa del sol.

Also strange to do Algarve but skip Strade, Sanremo, e3, amstel

Might be the (only) downside of having the very best classics riders of this generation be so multitalented (CX, MTB, GTs) that they have to reduce some of their classics schedules to fit everything in. Can’t member classics specialists in prior generations skipping San Remo. I suppose it also reflects the increased emphasis on training camps. Which I think is too bad for fans.