Lance Armstrong believes Mathieu van der Poel can challenge Tadej Pogacar: "The man we saw win Paris-Roubaix today can certainly win Liège-Bastogne-Liège"

C’mon Lance, say something MEANINGFUL, you have plenty of money in your mouth. For sure it’ll be far more exciting for those who can’t just enjoy the beauty of watching « perfection » and need constant external stimulation. Discussion points, he did show a short weakness during P-R and in some other races going well. Only 5 races? Why do all cycling commentators forget that HIS season basically starts when everyone else (even WVA this time) stops, unless you want to argue that he’s a 2 season per year rider? He will be coming to the end of this « peak of season » TP is arriving at the beginning of his, crossing trajectories. The distance suits him but it doesn’t bother TP either, the climbs don’t suit him and any strategy that succeeds in wearing him out with those give him very little chance against TP who has no problem with any amount of hard climbing. He’ll be far more dependant on his team saving him energy, so lucky Vermeersch (and actually the whole team) seems to be in top form now, they need it against the abilities of UAE in TP is disciplined enough to let his team be efficient. I would say it could be amazing but considering all that’s happened already this season just crashwise, I’m no longer getting excited for anything further out than the next race. We’ll see his remaining form better during Amstel, the best possible attempt the Dutch could make to emulate LBL, twice as many hills but only half as high ;-)