‘What the hell is going on?!’ – Why is Mathieu van der Poel not doing anything at the Tour de France?
Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) ticked off another stage without incident at the Tour de France as his nemesis Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) soaked up the adulation again. Stage 4 seemed ripe for a duel between cycling’s two finest multi-discipline stars but when Van Aert exploded clear on the final climb, Van der Poel was nowhere to be seen as he resigned himself to finishing in the main bunch.