Can Mathieu van der Poel win 2+ stages at the Tour de France? 🚴♂️💨
While MVDP is easily one of the most dominant riders in the world with historic wins at Flanders, Roubaix, and the World Championships, the Tour de France is a completely different beast.
Between his crucial lead-out duties for teammate Jasper Philipsen and a mixed history of hunting personal stage wins at the Grand Tours, is taking two or more stages is a massive ask?
What do you think? Is MVDP going to dominate the stages this year, or will he stay in lead-out mode? Drop your hot takes in the comments!
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Yep that's my take😅
Hear me out: TDF Podium 1-3rd : Jonas, Pogi, Seixas
Mmm… I think he can…
Last year he was about to win even a flast stage attacking with only one teammate 170km away from the finish…
The problem is that Pogacar won't let hin go that easy on some hill stage that suits VDP good…
But I think he is coming to the tour with a bit a anger due to the fact he couldn't win any classic this year…
So I think he is going to be more aggressive than usual (wich is already dangerous 😅)
Back in the days, 1/3 of the TdF riders quit after 1week, before the mountains start. There’s (or was*) no point for a classics riders and sprinters to be there
I have a take. Bit of a long one, sorry about that. Personally, Remco hate is the most forced thing ever. Especially when mfs say he is a horrible GC cyclist, which is a surprisingly common take somehow. Pogacar and Jonas have messed up our standards so much that winning a grand tour, getting on the podium on your first Tour (with a team not designed for it at all), and winning a monument twice is somehow a "horrible cyclist". And that's ignoring all of his other career victories, like the double golds at the Olympics. He's just confident, and people seem to hate that now.
ALSO, to the people who will talk about his 2025 Tour de France. Yes, he dropped out. Because he missed all of his winter training because of his horrible crash in December, started the Tour with a broken rib, and developed a sinus infection, and despite all that, won the stage 5 time trial, held the white jersey until he left, and was 3rd in GC standings when he left.