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

[Ilmaestro99]

Worst rider of all time

 

[canina82]

What is the excuse this year? I have been reading he only lost last year due to illness.

 

[Red Rick]

What is the excuse this year? I have been reading he only lost last year due to illness.

He was ill again this year.

Congenital brain issue

 

[jono]

What is the excuse this year? I have been reading he only lost last year due to illness.

He was better than last year.

 

[canina82]

He was better than last year.

He looked better last year until the last Kwaremont. Pogacar smelled blood on the Koppenberg, even allowed MVP to put a fake pace on Boonenberg.

 

[jono]

He looked better last year until the last Kwaremont. Pogacar smelled blood on the Koppenberg, even allowed MVP to put a fake pace on Boonenberg.

MVDP cracked way harder on Kwaremont last year. Wout even caught him.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Worst rider of all time

The entire top 3 isn't exactly known for riding smart .

 

[canina82]

MVDP cracked way harder on Kwaremont last year. Wout even caught him.

Yeah,this is also true. But this year I got the impression Pogacar could have dropped him wherever he wanted.

 

[Brullnux]

What is the excuse this year? I have been reading he only lost last year due to illness.

Make up a guy.

Pogacar fans have gotten to the point of inventing rivalries as everyone else knows there's no tension anymore. Pogacar is miles ahead of everyone else and it's sucking the life out the sport.

 

[AmRacer]

Make up a guy.

Pogacar fans have gotten to the point of inventing rivalries as everyone else knows there's no tension anymore. Pogacar is miles ahead of everyone else and it's sucking the life out the sport.

Mathieu CX
Remco ITT

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Worst rider of all time

I can't believe for a moment that you post that with any sense of meaning it. How many of these, even with today's "advantages", would have done better than him today?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

He was ill again this year.

Congenital brain issue

I really don't get the presumed humour of being grotesquely rude about the best exponents of the sport we follow.

 

[Red Rick]

I really don't get the presumed humour of being grotesquely rude about the best exponents of the sport we follow.

Well if they're supposed to be the greatest in the sport I think we could at least expect them to learn from the pretty basic tactical mistakes they keep making.

Instead Van der Poel repeats it every time and then just goes "oh well the best rider won."

If Van der Poel rides around like this he's a net negative on cycling outside of possibly Paris-Roubaix.