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

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well what'ya now. MvdP is actually tired and thinking of skipping altitude camp for a stay at home in an altitude tent instead. I think it's wise, another trip abroad could lead to simple exhaustion...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Corendon had their start of CX season press conference.

MvdP confirmed he's riding way less and CX is now more ' fun ' than an actual goal except the worlds. And he still rides for the classification in the DVV Trofee.
As for the road he trained well (at home, home altitude tent) and will ride Britain + some unspecified one day events until the worlds.

Not so much news, but it does appear likely that as his career goes on he rides less and less CX, as he feels he already achieved 'everything' there.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

He also won't ride the Olympic Road Race next year. Can't remember where i read it.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

well... that was imho obvious for a rather long time...

Probably, but i don't know if it was ever actually stated.

 

[dutchdescent]

Ass whooping team NL is bringing to Yorkshire for him.
Terpstra, Van Baarle, Langeveld, Mollema, Teunissen, van Emden and Weening.

 

[jaylew]

Ass whooping team NL is bringing to Yorkshire for him.
Terpstra, Van Baarle, Langeveld, Mollema, Teunissen, van Emden and Weening.

Though not as good as the women's team. Still trying to figure out why they didn't incude Wiebes. Too many chefs, maybe?

 

[MartinGT]

He also won't ride the Olympic Road Race next year. Can't remember where i read it.

That's because he wants Gold in the MTB and has said that's always been one of his goals

 

[MartinGT]

Though not as good as the women's team. Still trying to figure out why they didn't incude Wiebes. Too many chefs, maybe?

Depends what they're cooking?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

It's impossible to field a team as good as the womens, as they have far more absolute top of the world riders

 

[KZD]

I hope he manages to grab a win in the Tour of Britain. Today he has a good chance

 

[dutchdescent]

I hope he manages to grab a win in the Tour of Britain. Today he has a good chance

Good prediction

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

He can make a sprint look like it was a solo

 

[jmdirt]

FREAK! like I posted a while back: he's a one trick pony. That one trick being winning!

 

[elfed68]

I've just seen his finish at the ToB today, I don't think I've ever seen a finish like that before, he's on another level!!

 

[Leinster]

I've just seen his finish at the ToB today, I don't think I've ever seen a finish like that before, he's on another level!!

Sam Bennett into Oviedo the other day, tbf.

But yeah, vdPoel is on another level all round. Not since Sagan has a rider had so much impact over (almost) all terrains.

 

[Rollthedice]

Very hard to beat in Harrogate.

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

He'll probably win the TT to top it off, after not ever doing TT's.

I love how he said he just didn't want to get boxed in today!

 

[hammerthaim]

Sam Bennett into Oviedo the other day, tbf.

But yeah, vdPoel is on another level all round. Not since Sagan has a rider had so much impact over (almost) all terrains.

Yeah agreed on Bennett and Sagan. Sagan's first tdf wins were similar to this.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I've just seen his finish at the ToB today, I don't think I've ever seen a finish like that before, he's on another level!!

No disrespect to Mathieu, but you haven't seen too much cycling i'm guessing then.

Anyway, great win for him. Don't know if he needed it, but it will act as a nice confidence boost with what's around the corner.

 

[The Hegelian]

Yeah agreed on Bennett and Sagan. Sagan's first tdf wins were similar to this.

I've been thinking like that too. And it makes me wonder if that awesome punch-sprint power tends to dissipate over the years once you rack up GT's, try to develop to win cobbled monuments etc. Because Sagan just doesn't win like that anymore.

 

[tobydawq]

I've been thinking like that too. And it makes me wonder if that awesome punch-sprint power tends to dissipate over the years once you rack up GT's, try to develop to win cobbled monuments etc. Because Sagan just doesn't win like that anymore.

He doesn't which is a real pity as it was so glorious. Also some of the stage wins in the Tour of Oman was next level.

But I guess that his weight increase also makes it more difficult for him to sprint uphill like that.

 

[Leinster]

I've been thinking like that too. And it makes me wonder if that awesome punch-sprint power tends to dissipate over the years once you rack up GT's, try to develop to win cobbled monuments etc. Because Sagan just doesn't win like that anymore.

I think it's also, at least in part, that Sagan can't move coming up to a finish like that without every other rider/team watching him for the final 5km. vdP is still new enough to the peloton that nobody knows how to cover him yet, so he can throw in a move like that and nobody's ready for it.

 

[Akuryo]

I think it's also, at least in part, that Sagan can't move coming up to a finish like that without every other rider/team watching him for the final 5km. vdP is still new enough to the peloton that nobody knows how to cover him yet, so he can throw in a move like that and nobody's ready for it.

Yeah, remember Gaviria at Paris-Tours? Just started his sprint with 500 to go and nobody reacted... could not pull a move like that today.

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

hopefully you aren't all suggesting that MvDP wasn't being watched yesterday? C'mon. Right now (and against that field especially), he's just so strong on that kind of finish. If he'd had Ala, Bala, Sagan or big sprinters that can get over bumps, it wouldn't have worked out that easy for him.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Everybody knows who he is, everybody knew this was a stage with his name on. He was just better than the rest. This wasn't an A-field ofcourse, but they all knew he was the guy to follow (if they could).