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.
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!😅