Mathieu van der Poel, a hat -trick with the guts – Liberation
A priori, it is not a rich idea to align yourself from Paris-Roubaix shows on the wrist. Thirty paved sectors to be traveled at high speed, these are all jolts likely to derail the facelift see to scratch the dial, if we are led to go to the ground, which can happen in northern hell. Which is even more unfortunate when talking about a brand whose name very imperfectly indicates the market value. It is with such an accessory that the world champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) aligned himself on Sunday April 13, for the first time on the race. Badly took him: a blood stain came to mack his left glove a good part of the race, after the bracelet gradually nibbled on his wrist.
Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), he pointed out without gloves but with the same watch: the two runners are sponsored by the same watchmaker. However, it is the intact wrist that he presented himself alone in the velodrome to win A third Paris-Roubaix in a row. A capital feat, which only Francesco Moser (in 1978, 1979 and 1980) and Octave Lapize (before the First World War) had accomplished before him. And we want to see in this story of wrist what separated the imperious « classi
