a sensational denouement spoken. Julian Alaphilippe and Jakob Fuglsang were fighting for the victory in the Amstel Gold Race, but suddenly came in the final kilometer, a group with Van der Poel aangestormd. The Dutch champion took everyone along in his wake, made the connection and picked up the final out with a phenomenal sprint. The first Dutch triumph since Erik Dekker (2001) was a fact. But ‘t was especially the way. The cycling world was upside down, most of them had no words for the exceptional performance of ‘VDP’. Just as Thijs Zonneveld. See below the remarkable column in the Dutch AD.
Cycling What Mathieu van der Poel Sunday in the Amstel Gold Race as a whole performed, was almost unseen. From a lost position to bounce back on the Dutchman is over everything and everyone still to the victory. Also AD-columnist Thijs Zonneveld had no words for.