Mathieu van der Poel

Yesterday’s 192-kilometre stage, won by Arnaud Démare, finished half an hour later than the race organisers’ slowest projected time

Van der Poel averaged 528w for the final four minutes of the climb, peaking with a 949w 20-second sprint up the 5 per cent slopes...

The Alpecin-Fenix phenom powered his way to a second Ronde van Vlaanderen title (and plenty of KOMs)

"I was really bad and in a lot of pain. With the normal stages it was too much for my body at the moment."

Alpecin-Fenix rider does what his grandfather Raymond Poulidor never managed as he rides into the yellow jersey

Dutch champion takes his first Monument in head-to-head sprint against former cyclo-cross rival