Many of us thought that at the exit of the Paterberg, with Mathieu Van der Poel in his wheel, Kasper Asgreen was driving his own hearse on the national road which runs between the plane trees towards Oudenaarde. Some even saw the opportunity to fill their wallets and placed last minute bets in favor of the champion of the Netherlands, so much it seemed certain that in the sprint he was going to make origami with his ultimate opponent. But that will teach us to confuse the Fantastic Three with the Invincible Three and to have believed that, because Mathieu Van der Poel had beaten Wout Van Aert last October in the same configuration, nothing could happen to him. The Dutchman had plowed the top of Vieux Quaremont, 17 km from the finish, and this hyper-powerful attack had created blindness and prevented from dwelling on the fact that Asgreen had managed to plug the hole, which was certainly less spectacular, but no less impressive.
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