The Most Impossible Comeback in Cycling

Mathieu van der Poel’s victory at the 2019 Amstel Gold Race is one of the most incredible power performances we’ve ever seen. The 2023 UCI World Champion is one to never count out. This is one of, if not the best finish of all time in cycling. Beating Julian Alaphilippe, Jakob Fuglsang & more. Riders who could win the Tour de France, Strade Bianche, Liege Bastogne Liege & more.

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Mat Vanderpool a again with such a distance to go at a race as hard as this to see what M Matthew Vanderpool did I’m listen to me I’m speechless look going from behind now look atol on the left side M’s going to do it mat the race that made Matthew vandero a

Household name in Road cycling was Amstel gold race a race that may as well be a monument with the amount of history and Glory surrounding the race it’s one of the longest and toughest one-day races on the calendar and it kickstarts one of the toughest weeks of racing with

LA flesh Fon and Leeson Lees Following over 256 km of tough racing in the limberg region of Netherlands you’ll struggle to find a flat section in all of the race and if you do it’s most likely got a headwind steep climbs like the crusberg and calberg litter the

Course small little leg snapping climbs that in isolation aren’t so tough but when you’ve been racing fullon all day they hurt a lot in recent years they’ve changed the location of the Finish Line rather than the race finishing at the top of the climb they now have added a

Long flat stretch afterwards which leads to very exciting racing it’s a race that’s been won by Legends such as shil bear vukov and B ree but it’s also a race that lent itself to surprises enrio gasparato and Michael valren have both stood at top of the podium where you

Wouldn’t have guessed it at the start of the day Amstel gold race is the pride and joy of Netherlands sponsored by the Region’s beer ambly name Amstel gold the winner gets a massive boot filled with Amstel Gold’s finest it had been over 20 years ago that spring that a Dutch Rider

Had the pleasure of drinking the beer in the top step of the podium Legend Eric Decker won the race in 2001 in front of none other than Lance Armstrong no he’s not he’s given up Decker is got it that was about to change with the introduction of Matthew vandero today

He’s a household name he’s held the yellow jersey in the Tour of France and he’s been world champion but in 2019 he was first and foremost known for his cyclocross skills raising for a tiny team corendon circus him and arch rival Val vanard had already started making

Noise in 2018 and 19 Matthew van Leo entered the race as one of the pre-ra favorites but he was going up against teams with much bigger budgets in particular Julian Al Philip was flying having won St biani and Milano Sano earlier in the year he would be the man

To beat and all it took to beat him is arguably the best finish in modern day cycling history on the morning of the race Vander Paul plays fortnite seeming calm and relaxed the 24-year-old is getting in the zone for the race tuning out all distractions The Briefing on the

Bus in the morning is clear save energy and position yourself well however Matthew has other plans so what kind of scenario can you imagine for today’s race last year the fight started quite far from the Finish as you like well I think it could be great for me if the

Battle starts a bit earlier and we can arrive in the final climbs with a nice group of riders so we’ll see you attacking early ah maybe after 200 km of racing Matthew vandero kicks off in daring fashion attack him with over 40 km to go on the gulper BG climb he

Produces the highest 1 minute power we’ve ever seen at 757 Watts peaking at 1,221 Watts after having raised 200 15 km this is like Usain Bolt running a marathon but in the middle of that Marathon he runs a 95800 m split he’s clearly got strong legs but it’s a big

Risk to go this early he knows he needs to isolate the other favorites so they can’t rely on their teams with much bigger budgets needless to say no one wanted to follow him however cycling is a team sport Al Philip’s team is the equivalent of a Premier League team

Whereas Matthew vander’s team is in the championship ala Philip and the other captains set their lieutenants in the front and catch Matthew 5 km later knowing that Matthew will be reeling from this monstrous attack Julian Al Philip attacks on the is of bow with 37

Km to go and it’s only his rival Jacob Fang who can hang on the next 35 km of the race bore a large resemblance to another classic one-day race earli in the year Strat biani the race of the white roads not only does that race go

Up and down they Al also race on tough Italian gravel roads julan Al Philip and Fang had gotten a gap and worked together to keep Val vanard at Bay however in the end Al Filip got the better of him this move now in Amstel gold race could go all the way we’d

Already seen it early in the year when we went away that he had to pull and this time I should win instead of him it didn’t work out he didn’t agree so yeah now we ended up third and fourth the next 30 km fly by in a Flash meanwhile

Matthew sits in a smaller group over a minute back with 6 km to go General cycling consensus is that 1 minute of race time equals 10 km by those standards Matthew’s race was over no way he’d make it back however Matthew is an outlier he comes from a family of strong

Cyclists his grandfather Raymond poor one of the best Racers ever to never win the Tour to France his father is adre vanand theole who in 1990 won this exact race the Amstel gold race a race he had no business winning racing on the same climbs that they do today in the end it

Was coming down to a bunch Sprint the two riders in the front look certain to take the win adre Sprints from so far back that Luke Rosen thought he had won the race and almost started celebrating determination runs through the vandero family and this race carries a special

Emotional bond so with 6 km to go Matthew realizes that no one else in this group is strong enough to bring them back he kicks into gear it’s all or nothing he goes to the front and UPS the pace massively putting out 600 watts not caring who’s getting a free toe behind

Him Simon Clark who was on his wheel said this Matthew vandero proved that day that he wanted the victory more than anyone else meanwhile in the front of the race Julian Al Philipe and yob Fang start to play cat and mouse Fang having lost early in the year stops taking

Turns and forces ala Philip to do most of the heavy lifting this takes the pace out of the group completely the Gap is tumbling as the camera pans back when the final km straight you see kakowski bridging to the front Duo the group behind is not working together but you

Can spot Matthew loading up for one final push in fifth wheel the camera pans back to the front again but when it comes back one final time Matthew is all of a sudden on the front he looks back four time and Z sacks across the road to

Catch up to the front he starts the Sprint just before catching the front and here he goes for it on the left side mat on the ball’s going to do it mat on the B this is incredible I have never ever seen anything like this in my life

Match on the pool has done it I’ve seen a lot of bike races I’ve seen a lot of bike racers I’ve never seen anything like this ever the cycling world is in ecstasy we’ve just witnessed history in the final Sprint he averaged 849 watts and peaked at

1,199 Watts this is after 260 kmet of racing most of it was full gas we know this because Matthew uploaded the full ride to straa with his power data attached something you don’t often see from Pro cyclists I mean it must have been such an amazing race to watch on TV

This year when shakman describes a Sprint he says it was like hanging on to a freight train yeah like uh they came back and uh f pool he started the super hard Sprint pretty early I just went into his slipstream tried to go full gas

To find something in my le and yeah he passed and I think you couldn’t believe it I saw him uh super strong congrats to him Matthew’s win was so incredible that the region decided to name the finishing straight after him even British cycling royalty Bradley Wiggins had this to say

About him he is the hottest property in cycling at the moment other than Al Philip it’s scary to think what he might actually achieve by the time he J Bear’s age Matthew vandero has gone on to win many more races after the Amstel gold race but this will forever be remembered

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