The script for this World Cup was perfect. We saw rain, distant attacks, the favourites, the important ones, always ahead, attacking each other, the most precious and expected face to face by the cyclist fan, all together in the same race. Here, in Glasgow, between so much cock and so much superclassThe best of all won. Not one fall when he was heading towards the finish line alone stopped him. Her torn leotard showed wounds that from today will be covered with a rainbow.
Mathieu Van der Poel has been crowned with the classic queen of all years: the World Cup. However, Behind him, the locomotive has already left its mark in Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix, beating the same opponents, Pogacar and Van Aert. A monster that feeds on victories and makes his legend bigger and bigger.
This historic runner, from a cycling family since his grandfather, Poulidor, who was close to winning the Tour de France on several occasions, He is not only world champion in road cycling. He is also a cyclocross rider, being the first rider in history to do so. As if that were not enough, in these same world championships, he wants to look for a triplet that will lift him to an Olympus, a step that does not exist: to be world champion of mountain bike.
Thank you!
The circuit, the stoppage due to the protests, the weather that became very complicated in the last 50 kilometers… . It doesn’t matter, the show offered by the best in the world is indescribable. All the riders on the attack, the peloton falling apart with 100 kilometers to go, sprinters like Philipsen, Kristoff or Sagan staying at the first change and Evenepoel, Pogacar, Van Aert, Pedersen and Van der Poel face to face. They were responding to each other’s attacks, it looked like a video game. All the roosters were in the ointment and they gave the greatest Show possible. Evenepoel was the only one to show weakness and was annihilated by the rest.
A discreet World Cup for Spain
The team that Spain brought was not the strongest. hThere were a good handful of teams with more options than our eight, but the strategy, a priori, was clear: a runner on each court. However, the race went crazy very soon and the only thing that prevailed was the law of strongest. oh only Izagirre and Aranburu held on in leading positions, but they quickly disappeared more and more from the plane with each attack that was made at the head. Izagirre couldn’t even prove himself until the end, since he was affected by a fall from Trentin and was out of the race.
A circuit that did not like
The Glasgow circuit has marked the future of this World Cup. With 14.3 kilometers they had to give it ten laps until you reach the goal. A route that had 70 curves accumulated in that short distance and seven slopes with no more than 500 meters in length. This terrain, for some, was more like a criterium than a World Cup and many runners and members of different staffs They showed their displeasure.
stop for a protest
With 191 kilometers remaining to finish and about 50 to enter the Glasgow circuit the organization of the race has found a protest in the middle of the road. The protesters had stuck to the asphalt in a peculiar way and apparently difficult to remove. The race was stopped for about an hour until the protesters were withdrawn.
