All hyped by wout van aert making the best out of quarantine Prior to august, never ever in his life has WVA been superior to MVDP, was more like the other way round
He always looks much better than everyone but he's not "willing" to go big leagues yet or the Alpecin-Fenix contract has so many monetary negatives that he'd rather just mature and wait it out...until he's free, hard to say.
He gets to do all the races he wants, Roubaix, Flanders, San Remo, without forcing his team to field a squad for all the WT races they don't want to do. There is no reason whatsoever for him to move up to a WT team.
This dude... man. If he stays healthy and quits doing cyclocross I think Merckx better start dusting off some of his records because he's going to have to hand them over in a few years.
He's the kind of rider he is because of the CX pedigree, don't discount cross. I'm so sick of road elitists discounting cross as some second rate discipline.
@@joeyrogerson83 agree 100%! I don't think it's 2nd rate at all. All I meant is that being a World Tour rider, especially a star who targets monuments, Classics, Grand Tour stage wins... takes an ENORMOUS amount of "life energy" as I call it. As I said in the post, if he really wants to target anything Merckx did, he can't race 12 months a year flat out, year after year... It's not humanly possible. I think every aspiring road rider should race CX as they come up the ranks!
@Paul Angeloff I don't mean that people think it isn't tough, that it's a discipline riders like him should graduate from because it's like the minor leagues of bike racing. Plus I'm pretty sure MVdP makes more money than half of the world tour peloton, world tour domestiques don't really make that much money.
World class cyclist but he will never win the T d F he is too heavie..... For the classics he is my absolute favourit rider together with Wout v Aert. Mathieu enjoys more the cyclecross and mountainbike than road bike... very difficult to combine all this 3 disciplines together in his training package.But he is a monster together with Wout van Aert.We will see them in Paris -Roubaix soon
Mathieu van der Poel was already a champion as a little kid. You think he was on EPO when he was 12 too? He's the son of Adrie van der Poel and the grandson of Raymond Poulidor. If one person is likely to be the best cyclist in the world, without EPO but based on genetics and talent, it has to be MvdP.
Because he cant win the tour. Roclig has everything on MVDP when it comes to hill climbing. Currently he is too heavy to compete in the mountains, he might change that in the future but for now that's not part of his goals.
@@TGShunai "Roglic has everything on MVDP when it comes to hill climbing" That's a bold statement. I bet you wouldn't put your money on it in a one on one. I understand what you're saying. Roglic is world-class, future winner probably and he is lighter, dry, fit etc. But there is one problem.. He isn't MvP
@@vossi6303 I don't know how experienced you are with cycling, racing, etc but it's a very logical statement. I am a massive MVDP fan, I would put money on him winning every single one day race that there is right now but not the tour at the moment. This has to do with a few things; 1. He doesn't want to ride the way you need to ride to win a grand tour. Winning a tour means riding conservatively for 3 weeks, never using too much energy unless you really need to, never attack to take a stage victory, etc. That's not his way of riding. I think tho that when he's a few years older and he has won everything he wants to win, he might become more of a strategic rider that could win the tour. 2. He is not a climber, we've all seen it, even in this race. He couldn't follow up the 3-5km climbs, this last climb was 1km which he can best on pure power (he is the type of rider with a very strong 2min power curve). If it goes uphill for longer, he is not the best rider. If there was a 1 on 1 ride between him and Roglic or Pogacar on a stage with 3 HC climbs from the tour, I would definitely not put my money on MVDP. 3. He's too heavy because he likes MTB and wants to win the olympics on MTB. For MTB you need a stronger upper body to keep control over the bike, so his extra weight is useless weight on the road. So if he puts out 300 watts for 1 hour at 76kg vs a rider that can also put out 300 watts for 1 hour but only weights 65kg, he will never win the uphill battle even if he is stronger, due to the weight difference. On the other hand, his weight helps him in the classics, you're better off weighing 76kg on the cobbles in Paris Roubaix, than weighting 65kg, so he doesn't want to lose weight at all right now, it's a good thing for his current goals. Again, I love MVDP, he is my favorite rider, but you have to be realistic. Right now, he could not beat Roglic in an uphill stage. Maybe in 2 years if he puts his focus on time trail and climbing and losing some weight, he could, I am sure of that. But not right now.
@@BB-se9bl You both might be right, I'm just pointing out his potential. Roglic is a champ but doesn't win as easy as Van der Poel. His weight is a choice and can be changed easy if he wants to. I hope you agree that Mathieu is a talent that's so far ahead of it's competitors.. He's like Mike Tyson in the 80's, he can't lose.
Devastating, ok... but was it THERMONUCLEAR?
It was definitly a ketobomb
Haha Lanterne squad 👊
@@MR-dv6ms Lebanon
THERMONUCLEAR ATTACK! LMFAO! LR...
@@lastrae8129 yes !
The rockstar of our sport
That's not human strength anymore, that's adrenalin kicking in.
He is using the new aeroad, it's is light and aerodynamic
Ele é sensacional... formidável
Ô caboclo véio. No nosso medíocre ciclismo brasileiro nós não temos sequer um Mathieu van der PUM‼️
😎👉👉🇧🇷TALQUEI❓🇧🇷
Dutch Thunder Hammer
thats some scary next level shit right there. Mad respect to mvp🙏
Wow, what an engine!
Yes, I wonder how they hide it in the bike so well?
@@TheBClark88 Mechanical doping?
MVP vs WVA on the road, that would be impressive to see
I think the WVA is still the superior rider on the road but it would be interesting to see them in the same races.
In cyclocross we've seen a lot of duels between them, and when MVDP starts accelerating it's very difficult to keep up, even for WVA.
Now i think wva is a better rider now becauese he is riding smart mvdp is just going whitout thinking but that is my opinion.
All hyped by wout van aert making the best out of quarantine
Prior to august, never ever in his life has WVA been superior to MVDP, was more like the other way round
@@niklasfursattel1291 ;;I'm guessing you missed a few races :-)
The surge reminds me of Riccardo Ricco in the TDF in ~2008.
Ricco was cheating
Just stick with one camera angle guys
Der Junge is so Krass und muss unbedingt jetzt endlich zur TdF....
Absolutly trashed them
So dope 👆
@@sport1349 sorry?
He always looks much better than everyone but he's not "willing" to go big leagues yet or the Alpecin-Fenix contract has so many monetary negatives that he'd rather just mature and wait it out...until he's free, hard to say.
He gets to do all the races he wants, Roubaix, Flanders, San Remo, without forcing his team to field a squad for all the WT races they don't want to do. There is no reason whatsoever for him to move up to a WT team.
Quelle classe bravo à lui
Nombre del comentarista?
This some real Amstel Gold Race shit
makes it look so easy
Really? He was on the floor for ages after the finish. Didn't look easy to me.
Good Luck!
...e le cotte di giorni prima??
bloody hell
Vvv heeft het is kennisgebied van
So close but so far.
UCI
-light bikes are dangerous
Also UCI
-super tight naked suits are ok to wear at 45kmph
Look up the word devastating
Look up the word clickbait
This was Mathieu-ing!!!
i mean he annihilated Nino Schurter in 2019...
and on the Amstel he closed the gap with the breakways, did the sprinters lead out and win sprint. Normal teams use 4 riders to do so :D
A super sportsman.
This dude... man. If he stays healthy and quits doing cyclocross I think Merckx better start dusting off some of his records because he's going to have to hand them over in a few years.
@Paul Angeloff I hope you're right buddy, and he can make a full recovery!
He's the kind of rider he is because of the CX pedigree, don't discount cross. I'm so sick of road elitists discounting cross as some second rate discipline.
@@joeyrogerson83 agree 100%! I don't think it's 2nd rate at all. All I meant is that being a World Tour rider, especially a star who targets monuments, Classics, Grand Tour stage wins... takes an ENORMOUS amount of "life energy" as I call it. As I said in the post, if he really wants to target anything Merckx did, he can't race 12 months a year flat out, year after year... It's not humanly possible. I think every aspiring road rider should race CX as they come up the ranks!
@Paul Angeloff I don't mean that people think it isn't tough, that it's a discipline riders like him should graduate from because it's like the minor leagues of bike racing. Plus I'm pretty sure MVdP makes more money than half of the world tour peloton, world tour domestiques don't really make that much money.
World class cyclist but he will never win the T d F he is too heavie..... For the classics he is my absolute favourit rider together with Wout v Aert. Mathieu enjoys more the cyclecross and mountainbike than road bike... very difficult to combine all this 3 disciplines together in his training package.But he is a monster together with Wout van Aert.We will see them in Paris -Roubaix soon
Devasting...😂
Pure Epo Attack
Mathieu van der Poel was already a champion as a little kid. You think he was on EPO when he was 12 too? He's the son of Adrie van der Poel and the grandson of Raymond Poulidor. If one person is likely to be the best cyclist in the world, without EPO but based on genetics and talent, it has to be MvdP.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Mathieu_van_der_Poel_2013_Road_World_Championships.jpg
Why isn't he riding the tour? Roglic and co got nothing on MvP..
Another league, another class, another planet.
Because he cant win the tour. Roclig has everything on MVDP when it comes to hill climbing. Currently he is too heavy to compete in the mountains, he might change that in the future but for now that's not part of his goals.
@@TGShunai "Roglic has everything on MVDP when it comes to hill climbing" That's a bold statement. I bet you wouldn't put your money on it in a one on one. I understand what you're saying. Roglic is world-class, future winner probably and he is lighter, dry, fit etc. But there is one problem..
He isn't MvP
@@vossi6303 I don't know how experienced you are with cycling, racing, etc but it's a very logical statement. I am a massive MVDP fan, I would put money on him winning every single one day race that there is right now but not the tour at the moment. This has to do with a few things;
1. He doesn't want to ride the way you need to ride to win a grand tour. Winning a tour means riding conservatively for 3 weeks, never using too much energy unless you really need to, never attack to take a stage victory, etc. That's not his way of riding. I think tho that when he's a few years older and he has won everything he wants to win, he might become more of a strategic rider that could win the tour.
2. He is not a climber, we've all seen it, even in this race. He couldn't follow up the 3-5km climbs, this last climb was 1km which he can best on pure power (he is the type of rider with a very strong 2min power curve). If it goes uphill for longer, he is not the best rider. If there was a 1 on 1 ride between him and Roglic or Pogacar on a stage with 3 HC climbs from the tour, I would definitely not put my money on MVDP.
3. He's too heavy because he likes MTB and wants to win the olympics on MTB. For MTB you need a stronger upper body to keep control over the bike, so his extra weight is useless weight on the road. So if he puts out 300 watts for 1 hour at 76kg vs a rider that can also put out 300 watts for 1 hour but only weights 65kg, he will never win the uphill battle even if he is stronger, due to the weight difference. On the other hand, his weight helps him in the classics, you're better off weighing 76kg on the cobbles in Paris Roubaix, than weighting 65kg, so he doesn't want to lose weight at all right now, it's a good thing for his current goals.
Again, I love MVDP, he is my favorite rider, but you have to be realistic. Right now, he could not beat Roglic in an uphill stage. Maybe in 2 years if he puts his focus on time trail and climbing and losing some weight, he could, I am sure of that. But not right now.
VOSSI I’ll put everything I have on Roglic riding Mathieu on 15 minutes on the Col de la Loze. Mathieu is way to heavy.
@@BB-se9bl You both might be right, I'm just pointing out his potential. Roglic is a champ but doesn't win as easy as Van der Poel. His weight is a choice and can be changed easy if he wants to. I hope you agree that Mathieu is a talent that's so far ahead of it's competitors.. He's like Mike Tyson in the 80's, he can't lose.