The Dutch bike owner Mathieu van der Poel has been proclaimed this Sunday world champion of highway biking within the World Cups which might be being held in Glasgow, after leaving alone 22 kilometers from the tip of the technical city route of 271.1 kilometers by way of the Scottish metropolis and recovering from a fall within the remaining stretch.
The grandson of the legendary Raymond Poulidor, 28 years outdated, accomplished one of the vital wonderful feats within the historical past of the World Championships; He jumped from among the many favorites -the Belgian Wout van Aert, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar and the Danish Mads Pedersen- in the course of the hill, 22 kilometers from the end line, after the 4 hunted down the Italian Alberto Bettiol -who had escaped a number of kilometers before-, printing a devilish rhythm that his pursuers couldn’t reproduce.
Not even a 10-mile fall dampened his ambition. With a time of 6:07:27, the person from Alpecin-Deceuninck crossed the end line and surpassed Belgian Wout van Aert, silver this Sunday, by 1:37, and Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, second categorized final 12 months, by 1:45 Tour de France and who entered simply forward of the Danish Mads Pedersen, with the identical time, to take the silver medal.
On this manner, Van der Poel, 5 occasions cyclocross world champion, takes over from the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, winner of the check in 2022, and confirms his nice 12 months, through which he has additionally gained the traditional Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix. A tribute to his grandfather ‘Pou Pou’.
All in a race that needed to be stopped for nearly an hour after a bunch of protesters towards the indiscriminate exploitation of oil interrupted the runners with 190 kilometers to go; the people glued themselves to the highway across the Carron Valley, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the motion stopped.
Earlier than, a dozen cyclists starred within the first break of the day. On the restart, the tempo rose decidedly and there have been many who introduced their candidacy, similar to Evenepoel, Van der Poel himself or ‘outsiders’ such because the American Neilson Powless.
The autumn of Ecuadorian Jonathan Narvaez, with simply over 42 kilometers to go, prompted a minimize within the peloton that left the 4 protagonists of the day alone, and solely 22 kilometers from the end line was the sentence handed down, with Van der Poel as choose.
