Van Der Poel's Will To Win | Amstel Gold Recap Show 2019 

Mathieu "sprinters start too late" van der Poel. And "lemme just tow 6 world class road guys for the last 10 kilometers and win with a 600 meter sprint" for good measure.

I was there (on my racebike ofcourse) live at 1,5km. Never saw this before. Never will see something like this. This was magic. Mathieu was 20-25 secs behind at 1.5km (1 mile). He's a streamtrain, with 6 wagons at his back.. last one (Bauke) was dying. They all where dying in MVDP wheel... unbelieveable.... wow-wow-wow-wow. Whe couldn't believe it first time, I just said to the spectaters.. your joking, he couldn't have won this, IMPOSSIBLE.... and then I heard it on the speakers.... it sank in. wow-wow-wow-wow-wow. Best race day of my life.

What I love about MVDP is that he's awful tactically and he always follows his guts. And that what cycling fans want to see.

seriously though it's been more than 2 years and i still can't believe he pulled off something like this, like what the fuck

Fuglsang was the only one who rode this race correctly. It was Alaphillipe's race to lose and Fuglsang didn't want to tow him to the line. Van DerPoel's race was a tactical nightmare, but it didn't matter because he's so much stronger that everyone else.

This could go down as the best finish ever in cycling

Best race finish ever ✌️👍🏆

This was the greatest race ever

I believe Alaphilippe made a mistake rather than Fuglsang. Fuglsang had 95% chance of losing if he worked. If alaphilippe worked alone, he would have had still a good chance of winning. In the end they both didn't work so you cannot say one or the other was willing to work while the other was working for him, you cannot blame the other for not working if you didn't work either. None were working and so the one that made a tactical error was the one that was most likely to win, in this case alaphilippe.

Get the chills every time I watch this

Absolutely phenomenal.

Watch Van Der Poel over the last 600m he wasn't worried about being able to beet the 3 in front of him. He was more worried about the guys behind him. Almost as if he knew he had the front 3 beaten with a few hundred to go.

WTF is Ian talking about??? Accept 2nd? what kind of a comment is that?

Well done Gents. Great summary of a wonderful race!

Demasiado maravilloso, nunca visto. Gracias por la buena síntesis.... too wonderful, never seen. Thanks for the good synthesis

The commentators really did this finish justice

Simply an Epic ride!

This is an extraordinary description of what happens in the race wow excellent Chanel keep it up guys

I thought watching the women’s race that it would be a letdown to watch the men. Nope. Both were unbelievable.

Good comments and insights! Thanks guys.

Fuglsang spent the most time in the front it Was only the last kilometers Alaphilippe did somre work. Its Alaphilippe’s fault because he is the strongest

great show and what a fantasyic race

that guy on the right is really annoying, why should a rider that have an already growing list of secondary placements, on a team who only cares about the wins, in the twilight of his career, lead out alaphilipe, and accept second place? that race was alaphilipes race to loose, and he lost it. the type of racing he's asking for, where riders forget about attacking and just accepts that only fast men are allowed to win anything is awful for spectators, its awful for the riders, and its awful for the teams. we should be discussing reducing the rewards for secondary placements to encourage more riding like fuglsang did, not discouraging it.

It was Fuglsang who had worked incredibly hard on the last Cauberg ascend to prevent Kwiatkowski and Trentin form coming back. Furthermore, Alaphillipe normally has a better sprint than Fuglsang (see Strade Bianche), so I understand that Fuglsang thought that he had done enough and, to be honest, I tend to agree with him: there's no reason why he should tow Alaphillipe to the finish line, especially if Alaphillipe is not doing the majority of the work. Alaphillipe was in a great position a few km from the finish line and should have won this race, but because he stopped riding, he didn't only lose the race, but he didn't even get onto the podium. To be honest, from a tactical point of view I've rarely seen someone make such bad decisions as Alaphillipe did on Sunday...

What the F*** was that? i have never seen anyone ride to the finish like that ever. that is mind-blowing. it that even possible?

When you know your Grandad carries the name “ the Eternal Second”, you ARE going to make sure you Win.

Vandermazing!

De Marchi in the 3rd chase group and not GVA

Attacking and chasing results in a win.... unlike the Tour of Flanders where everyone looked at each other... if it was a monument it would have been one for the ages.

It was Alaphilippe who didn't want to work with Fuglsang not the other way around and they also got an incorrect time check which is why they got caught in the end.

In regards to their review of the women’s race when Kasia attacked, they said that Emília Faling couldn’t follow and even stopped pedaling... wrong...in fact Emília had a second mechanical for the day and had she not had it, things could have been quite different...

Listening to Americans talk about cycling grates on my soul.

Where can I buy Ian's mug?

His last name is pronounced as 'Pool', not 'Pole'.

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I believe Emila Fahlin suffered a mechanical (broken derailleur) and didn't crack as you said.

not Van Aeveramaet - he has a golden helmet. di marchi

how does mathieu van der poel's DS not go crazy with the insane tactics he employs😭 but then it works so i guess there's probably not many complaints

Lol Alaphillipe was the one to blow it. You say yourself that Alaphillipe would always win in a sprint, so why should Fuglsang then help out in the last Km's? If Alaphillipe is so good he should be able to lead in a pace fast enough to not get caught and then still beat Fuglsang in the sprint. You're basically arguing against yourself when you say Fuglsang should have taken the lead to get second place, since if the first place was secured for Alaphillipe, then Alaphillipe should have taken the lead to get first place and therefore Fuglsang did the right thing by not leading and Alaphillipe made the mistake of going too slow.

"2nd place is 1st loser"

How do you sprint all out for as far as MVdP just did?

Fuglsang doesn't have to help Alaphilippe win. He did exactly the right thing for himself and got 3rd place. It was Alaphilippe who got it wrong big time.

The director is sitting in the car watching what’s going on telling Julian Alaphilippe what to do. None of this was his decision, remember this is a chess game played out in the team car, it’s very naive to think otherwise.

To win Alaphilippe had to go hard in the last 2km. To guarantee 2nd Fuglsang needed to do the same. They were getting incorrect info from the race cars, but the race was so split up getting accurate time gaps on 3, 4, 5 clusters as they were moving, joining was next to impossible. They should have decided not to chance it and ride for the top two places, rather than assume they had them. Having said that they had not considered how incredible Van der Poel would be. No other rider would have tried that and pulled the largest group in the finale up to the leaders: they would not have the power, physiology, determination or humility. MVdP wanted to get on the podium so bad he did not care if he pulled others up who might overtake him on the line. He went for it like we all do when we dream of winning bike races. Boys Own stuff!. What a day he made for himself and the world's best one day finale. It's legendary already.

Onoda sakamichi

*OK so actually* what MvdP said after the race was that he "didn't think he had a chance until 300 meters till the finish." Even later he said that he was just going fast for a good classification not for the win. Alphy and Fugelsang were riding 25km/h haha woops!

Guys, its the boss (Vinokourov) of Fuglsang who told he couldnt ride anymore and stop working with Alaphilippe, and its a huge mistake because Alaphilippe had cramps and his sprint was not going to be good. This was the best chance for Fuglsang to actually win the sprint.

His name isn’t Matthew ya muppets

FloBikes, please dont censor other youtubers

Great video but please try to pronounce the riders names better, this is just irritating.

😂 nice blabla in the written comments here about the French and Danish dude. You all know what? VDP I did this one after winning the field cross season, and now goes back to the mud for mountain bike gold. That's cycling 3D guys.

I really hope he races the mountain bike season to think his never won UCI MTB race is crazy!!

Please make sure you got your facts straight. It is easy to see he did not start his sprint at 500 meters...

Fuglsang beat alaphillipe in the sprint so he could of won

Thing is Fuglsang did beat Alaphillipe in the sprint.... to me both lost the race

its not as straight forward as it looks. the front two and kwiat were completely drained and riding a snails pace, this made his win look so much better than it was. its not like mvdp left everyone in the dust, they are all right there with him. he also didnt pull the pack the whole time, but the camera shots made it look like he did. his power data is out ther and its a lower average power for the hour than froomes stage 18 giro win last year

forse...la corsa del secolo... sarà esagerato...no?

Great finishing by MVDP (whose awful attack, at first, maybe started the real race), but we'll have to be honest: no one would have complete the chase if Alaphilippe and Fuglsang didn't start surplace... And without motorcycles and cars doing a mess, as usual. A really emotional race, but not that great race you're saying :-)

Emilia Fahlin had a mechanical problem. She didn’t stop because she couldn’t pedal. Read her Instagram

11:49 No, just 15 km/h slower.

Foogleslang 🙄😂

I just love the way JA has been usurped by MvdP - in Brabanse Pils he congratulated him but ya got the feeling that he was thinking 'ya not gonna do the same come Amstel' and he did. JA has a big ego...in the tour of Britain last year he shown his true colours well...and as much as he charismatic, he can to physically, cept MvdP has shown everyone he races personally not mentally !

He was NOT down 40 seconds with 2km... the race info was wrong... that was why the front 2 played games, bad info... NO ONE CAN MAKE UP 20 SECONDS A KM.....

Dey-ven-ens. It's not that hard.

Achter brommers 😁

Fuglsang obviously is no sprinter, his only chance was to let Alaphilippe work his guts out and then drive away from him close to the finish line. No big deal, of course he couldnt pull.

Please take the time to learn to pronounce these names the correct way lol

Very nice effort but this is not the best of the century.

For all the new MvdP fans. Check out his work out when he is in a cyclocross race: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GdiesS9Zndo.html

What Van der Poel did was legendary, but you can't elogiate that first attack. It was clearly a rookie mistake

Fuglsang was 100% correct. It is better to take the chance for the win and finish 3rd then not try and get second. You guys are horrible commentators. It is a pro's job to WIN not race for second.

a good win.. but im just not blown away with this, the media has really hyped it up too much.

Merckx 2.0

the guy on the right does not really display any knowledge about speed cycling, you can't learn to sprint, you can train and improve but either you can sprint or you can't. Fuglsang si a great speed biker, but he will never ever win a sprint against atype like Alaphilipe.

Van der Poel is new Eddy Merckx for me...That's thrue Alainphilippe was made a great chame, a great mistake...Fulsang is no quick, he isn' t a sprinter....Alainphilippe has too much looked him, he could lead the escape, Van der Poel would not has recovered the gap!!!

As per given the chat's IQ is astonishingly low. Let's all count to 3 shall we? 1 ... 2 ... 3

Golden age of cycling? Yeah, no. Froom is so uncharismatic. Personally for such a strong statement cycling needs a great champion with strong personality like Hinault, that people from all over can support. Froom is just not engaging to watch and follow. My $.02