Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel sealed his first road world title in Glasgow at the weekend at the end of an attritional race that saw just 51 riders finish. The much-criticised 14.3km city centre finishing circuit featured 45 corners and blew the bunch to pieces early in the race.
In scenes not witnessed in years at a Worlds road race a small elite lead group including van der Poel, Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogačar and Mads Pederson found themselves clear with 40km still to race.
Van der Poel made his winning move on a small rise with 22km remaining and after a crash on a wet right hand corner which all but
