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Today, Van der Poel has the prospect to develop into the primary man in historical past to win the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold in the identical season. In reality, solely 4 males have ever gained Flanders and Amstel Gold the identical season (Pogačar, Gilbert, Raas and Merckx), and a mere three Amstel Gold and Paris-Roubaix (Raas, Hinault and Merckx). If Van der Poel can certainly pull this one off, it is going to be one of many all-time nice spring campaigns.
That stated, it’s the identical man who dominated the cobbled classics season who’s once more the new favorite at this time. Mathieu van der Poel’s supremacy extends past simply the cobbles of Northern Europe, and within the absence of injured rival Wout van Aert and defending champion Tadej Pogačar, will probably be checked out because the rider anticipated to animate and management the race.
You be part of us at this time for the beginning of Ardennes Week – albeit not really within the area of the Ardennes. Amstel Gold will not be geographically situated within the Ardennes Forest as La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but it surely shares the identical sort of abundance of quick, tarmacked hills that characterises these races, thus starting the a part of the spring the place puncheurs rule supreme.
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