Mathieu van der Poel’s madcap attacks are prep for Tour de France – Adam Blythe on Giro d’Italia carnage
Mathieu van der Poel’s one-man madcap attacks at the Giro d’Italia are laying the foundations for an assault on the Tour de France, predicts Eurosport expert Adam Blythe. Fans of the Giro have become accustomed to shots of Van der Poel hunched over his handlebars at the front of a breakaway, with the Alpecin-Fenix rider making a series of moves that could be filed under ‘unusual’. Ad/> The Dutchman went back on the offensive on Stage 17 as he broke clear of the day’s break along with Gijs Leemreize (Jumbo-Visma) on a steep mountain descent – almost coming a cropper after overcooking a corner.


