Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it. It was when he was at Tenerife, sitting in his hotel at altitude.

we've had some good racing. Pog, VDP, Wout... Let's hope Pidcock comes back into the fray too.

No one deserves nothing..

It’s quite cool to see how these two riders enjoy the competition, and do not have anger when the other rider takes the day.

It's a new generation and a fun generation, cycling is about racing again and not just following but attacking. I think Remko Evenepoel and Pidcock also belong to the group with a simular mindset.

Van Aert is about as Dutch if not more than van der Poel. Both van Aert's parents are Dutch with van der Poel only his dad being Dutch, with his mother being French the daughter of legendary Poulidor. Both are born in Flanders and live there as well. Both speak with a flemish accent. Only van der Poel opted to represent the Netherlands. Which van Aert could've done as well. I'm a huge MvdP fan as well. Van Aert is an extremely talented and quite sympathetic rider though as well. Flemish and Dutch is in my eyes not that far apart anyway. The wallonians are way more similar to the French than they're to their fellow Belgian Flemish.

yes!

thanks buddy

Well said

Yeah, nice guy

Jumbo didn’t win the tour that year but yeah.. impressive.

agreed.

we've done a few in the past like this. I'll upload more of them on YT.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Omeid.

Thanks. We did this during Covid times. Wout was good. We spoke for much longer

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, he was great. It was while he was in Tenerife.

glad you liked it!

glad u liked it.

yeah, good sign for the races ahead

yeah, he really seemed to play it differently tactically this year at E3, much more reserved, less willing to take people to the line, I hope he sticks to that at Flanders, in the long sprint around 250-300m I think he's pretty unbeatable...Mathieu just has the edge in the short punchy sprints. . .

@@Nosh_Feratu excactly this, if he makes it a longer sprint like in the E3, he has a better and higher chance to win.

it's good racing!

Meest complete wel als wegrenner. VDP, Clyclocros, weg en MTB in deze disciplines samen de beste van de Wereld

thanks

yeah, good guy!

thanks buddy

thanks

Well said

It was only a couple of months after Flanders, this was an older video we reposted ahead of the 2023 edition.

Lost him the race

Good prediction.

good point.

It could be the year for him 🙏

The fall of Alaphilippe is caused by Van Aert driving deliberately close to the motor, hoping MVDP would crash into the motor. MVDP escaped a fall because he's got very good reflexes. Julian was the next victim of this criminal act.

yeah, he's a good guy

haha, that's right. I wondered what that stuff is.

yeah, he's good.

yeah, we had it on the site but I thought I'd put in YT.

yeah, but he's Belgian, he SO wants to win this race. It'll come.

YES!!!!

😁😁😁👍👍

Yes. It'll happen

Die heeft hij al meerdere keren gedaan. Kijk meer naar UKposts en de Belgische sportbladeren.

Lo what makes you say that? They both are quite open about their losses

I don't think so, long time rivals

Not mates, they respect each other and know each other quite well.

Crazy race!

Clearly no time, he barely evaded it himself.

@@MDP1702 the guy on the front takes responsibility for safety. You can't sit behind and be expected to see the dangers ahead.

@@jerrychicken967 Van Aert did what every guy on the front would try to do, seek shelter where possible. Just unlucky that these motors suddenly unexpectedly stopped. And if look at it, VA actually went out of the way in time, but then there were delayed reactions by VDP and Alaphilippe. Alaphilippe also seemed to be looking down before it, not forward. Unfortunate race incident.

@@MDP1702 I'll not be following your wheel then. A back wheel to avoid 🤔