The victory within the Paris-Roubaix for Mathieu van der Poel, the glory for Tadej Pogacar | Cycling | Sports | EUROtoday

The poor and employee north who portrayed Agnès Varda, and turned his brick homes, industrial disaster, darkish streets, unemployment, alcohol, discover his pleasure and his future within the Paris-Roubaix, and there the heroes are born, and extends a purple carpet to Mathieu van der poel and it’s surrendered, defeated as they by a future with out intelligence or sensitivity.

Mathieu van der Poel wins, the prince of biking, pure class, power, model, clear palms, with out gloves, folded the elbows to squad, and his mouth, his superb lips, it’s a starvation rictus, anger, and the books will file that it’s, after the octave lapize, martyr of the First World War, mustaches of our Big War Herald of blood transfusions, predecessor of the EPO, the third bike owner who wins three years in a row the queen of the basic, the hell of the north who pogacar – a stepkeeper of the goats that trisan among the many cobblestones the humid grass, ephemeral, by the dew, goat himself, Goat, the best of all time – promised to show into his paradise, and ended up being his martyrdom. And his left, stiff, immobile doll within the deal with, bleeds and stains his rainbow gloves.

Van der Poel marchs solely on the highest of the pave, just like the champions. Naked palms under, basic. His pedaling, his nonetheless physique, the little momentum of his nice shoulders, is so lovely, which appears haughty. The spectators have heard that solely as a result of 38 kilometers has fallen Pogacar, clueless by evil bikes, and a few insult the grandson whom Poulidor prophesied champion, or throw water in his face, as if he had been a thief.

Curve on the proper angle in the midst of sector 9, pont-tibault à ennevelin, three stars, a previous Mons in Pévèle, on the way in which to Carrefour de l’Arebre. Moment to cease and course of, mechanics of the considered people that doesn’t perceive Pogacar, distinctive in it as effectively. Pogacar flies, pedaling in a cloud, floats on the pavés and does the unattainable straightforward, however doesn’t dominate physics, is human, despite the centrifugal power that sends the grass towards the promoting fences, wheel and rises. And Van der Poel is already a path in entrance. There is not any mud. There is not any future. The 15 seconds that lose within the fall develop, multiply. The winner’s impulse, forward; The sorrow of the defeated, behind. Victory and glory.

The stones are moist, every part is clear. Sharp. Like Van der Poel’s phrases, which earlier than crossing, winner, the objective within the velodrome makes the sign of three with the fingers of the proper hand up, and some centimeters even earlier than, he will get off the bike after which lifts it up. He kisses together with his lady and when, after greater than a minute he crosses the Pogacar objective, second, he approaches him and hugs him, and acknowledges his worth, and his struggle. Lighting, the physique hurts a lot, a hand in the proper hip, that crosses, van der poel, 30 years, eighth monument in his accountant, second of a spring by which he additionally gained San Remo and has been third within the Tour de Flanders, and in each after laborious struggle with the Slovenian so swish, he sits earlier than a microphone and speaks. “It has been a very hard career, how I have suffered,” he says. “It is a pity that Tadej made that mistake within the curve. I needed to go alone, and there was nonetheless so much, and with the face wind. I believe he calculated badly. We had been going very, very fast There could be podium to launch the opposite.

Pogacar enters hell for the primary time and does it with out worry within the so -called Arenberg trench, between chicken songs soaked within the bushes and the helicopter loud night breathing. Enter the primary and speed up. As a very good orchestra director, it already marks the tone and rhythm of the symphony, assaults and assaults and solely van der poel responds and counteracts him. The others observe, struggle, endure, applaud spectators of one other magical day, one other intense match between the 2 better of the century on the highway. Another San Remo. Another flaonds. Another emotion, and is similar, and accelerated coronary heart. Hell is the asphalt, the place Van der Poel surprises the fats wheels of the Slovenian colnago, which loses easy acceleration capability and recovers it within the stones, in Mons in Pévèle already, and 45 kilometers and solely two stay standing, so laborious they’ve been the blows. Philipsen, Van der Poel’s companion, the final companion, has given up.

Rose Giro mounting glasses, the identical as Flanders. Culotte Black adjusted with Minotaur within the labyrinth of the excessive rapes the yellow crops, freshly planted potatoes, beets but, not goat white. As they go to poel the earlier yr. Elegance and rainbow. And a hallucination. “I saw the motorcycles stopped in the curve and I thought they were straight, and I didn’t see any curve. Wind on your back, at full speed, I found the curve that I did not expect. I was very quickly. Change bicycle. Pedaling again. “It was a problem that I needed to face. He had no good reminiscences of Roubaix once I ran her as a junior and wished to create good reminiscences. He wished to win, Mathieu is a superb champion and top-of-the-line cyclists on this planet. Competeing towards him is a superb honor. If I had been a toddler, he could be my idol.”

It was the third career of the century for fans, but for Van der Poel the number one remains his victory in San Remo ago less than a month ago. And in Van der Poel, also, the admiration for Pogacar grows, to whom he elevates the altars. “We all know the way unbelievable Tadej is as a champion. What he has accomplished right here in his first Roubaix doesn’t shock me, however it isn’t regular both. It is an distinctive expertise. Surely we’ll see it subsequent yr to take his revenge.”

And Pogacar has already gotten into the bathe and thinks of his subsequent problem, the hare in two weeks, and by which one other factor will enter the champions equation, Remco Evenepoel, who returns to the competitors seven months later, the delayed begin of a season marked by his conflict with the door of a submit van in January.