Mathieu van der Poel, the lion of Flanders: ‘Man, this is incredibly beautiful’ | Cycling

Mathieu van der Poel.

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sport">OUDENAARDE – There are never any doubts in his mind. But when the stars dance before the eyes of sheer exhaustion after the umpteenth sprint of his life on Sunday afternoon, October 18, 2020, Mathieu van der Poel was shocked. Perhaps that will not last as long as the handful of seconds that the bloodcurdling 185 meters of the 104th Tour of Flanders took up, it must have been his most terrifying moment of this special cycling season. Because there is uncertainty.

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