VIDEO: Mathieu van der Poel narrowly avoids disaster in Renewi Tour ITT with expert bike handling
CyclingFriday, 30 August 2024 at 09:12
Stage 2 of the 2024 Renewi Tour saw the riders take on an individual time trial. An early key stage for those with plans of winning the general classification.
One of those riders touted as having potential race winning capabilities is world champion Mathieu van der Poel and whilst the Dutchman's time trial efforts weren't anything spectacular, things were almost absolutely disastrous as Alpecin-Deceuninck superstar narrowly avoided a potential crash with some of his trademark, brilliant bike handling skills.
See the incident for yourself in the video down below!
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- Let them do stage 1 aweek or month in advance ;-)Jumpyjohn15-05-2025
- Neither Prince Wout ;-)Jumpyjohn15-05-2025
- I’ve seen cases where people are more or less set free 6, 7, 8 times for cow-boy car rallies endangering pedestrians and only getting jailed after actually killing somebody. Sure thing is, prevention is not the priority, let’s kill somebody first so we have proof the perpetrators were dangers to others.Jumpyjohn15-05-2025
- Even Marine le pen got off lightly compared to ordinary folks and people still moan it was a political hit-job.Jumpyjohn15-05-2025
- This crashing craze is really getting popular, takes up close to half the articlesJumpyjohn15-05-2025
- Could have been nasty for the riders. Not acceptable.mobk15-05-2025
- If that's true, then it is very unfortunate. At least, he tried to cool off. His cool off strategy turned out to be fatal.
KerisVroom15-05-2025 - Phew, on the bright side, the king of crashing, Primoz, wasn't affected.KerisVroom15-05-2025
- As an Aussie residing in Melbourne, it would be incredible to have Pogacar, Vingegaard, Roglic, Evenepoel, etc. time trialling down Beach Road (and claiming all the KOMs along the way), and up the Dandenongs and the three peaks... but come on, let's be realistic here! The logistics and expenses would make it way too hard and the audience/market in Australia is small (only one of my colleagues cycles to work in a workplace with hundreds of staff and the vast majority of Aussies simply do not care about cycling, let alone any grand tours). If anything, the organisers might do better to take it to the States if they want a bigger audience / increase viewership.Pogboom15-05-2025
- You don't even know what happened and you're somehow claiming the justice system got it wrong? On what grounds exactly are you making such claims? There was clear CCTV footage of the incident. It was a tragic accident caused by a heated argument (about kitchen cabinets believe it or not...) with Rohan wanting to leave the situation to cool off. There are two children to think about too - throwing the dad in jail for an accident is not the right way to handle this situation. Moreover, for the rest of his life, Rohan will know that his children will always have the thought in the back of their minds that "daddy killed mummy" - I think that is way worse than a few years in jail.Pogboom15-05-2025
yeah, he’s probably done that quick foot dab about 10,000 times in his CX career. pure reflex for him. he actually TRIED to do it to stay upright when his rear wheel slid out in the Glasgow Worlds — that’s how the famous broken cleat got broken.
HR probably spiked 2bpm for him😅
That was like just another day in the park for him
Yes. Definetly his cyclocross reflexes coming into play here. It is pretty common to pull out your foot in corners, wet grass and mud is extremely slippery, whereas asphalt is fairly predictable in comparison!😅