Van der Poel recrowned king of Flanders
Apr 20, 2022
3 minutes
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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