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Van der Poel recrowned king of Flanders

Watching the Tour of Flanders from home after being ruled out with Covid, Wout van Aert would have seen his big rival Mathieu van der Poel ride to a second title. To add salt to the wound, he would then have received a ping from Strava informing him the Dutchman had also taken his KoM on the infamous Koppenberg-to-Taaienberg segment.

Crazily, Van der Poel wasn’t even fastest on those sections of cobbles during the 2022 Ronde. That would have been Tadej Pogačar, who

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