VIDEO | Mathieu van der Poel crashes hard once again, minutes into return to Mountain Biking
Mountain BikeSunday, 25 May 2025 at 12:23
Mathieu van der Poel has taken a rest period after his successful spring classics campaign and returned to competition this weekend at the Nové Mesto Mountain Bike World Cup race, however only minutes into the race he has hit the ground.
The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider hasn't found his luck in the off-road discipline yet, in the past he has crashed out of the Olympic Games race in 2021, and then once again at the 2023 World Championships - two of his main goals in recent years. During today's race he has gone down relatively hard, which can be seen in the video below:
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- as of the day he rode the TT in yellow at the TDF in ‘21, mvdp had NEVER been in a wind tunnel and NEVER ridden his TT bike a single day except for the days he had to in stage races. that day he finished 5th, one second behind wout, and hung on to his yellow against all expectations.OCexile11-06-2025
- well THIS is music to my ears. i’ve always thought — and said here several times — that van der poel SHOULD be a great time trialist, and the only reason he isn’t is that he just never gives his all unless it’s an event HE genuinely cares about, and for whatever reason he’s just never liked TTs. but his natural riding position is beautifully aerodynamic, and he has the ability to empty his tank to a degree that i think is basically unmatched. i hope his passion for this event grows.OCexile11-06-2025
- So he went from not doing the Vuelta to doing it for training. Guillen must have called his bossabstractengineer11-06-2025
- That said, we’ve seen Jonas being real good in TT before but this was really short and favoured others more.Mistermaumau11-06-2025
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- Considering the « unlimited » budget they have, that they’re prepared to pay their leader 8 per year, paying a very good domestique who can take over for the leader in emergency or replace when leader isn’t present (winning around 15x already at this age) 2 per year is the price to prevent him becoming a rival at another team until such time as said leader slows or stops. In the meantime, it wouldn’t be in their interest to allow a chap with this character to develop into leader challenging shape so who is to say if he is receiving optimal guidance for developing into a leader beater?Mistermaumau11-06-2025
- I'm not quite ready to declare Tadej DOA. But it is fantastic to see Jonas back at such good form after a lacklustre springmobk11-06-2025
- In your opinion, the UAE pays a multi-million dollar contract for years to retain a talent, but its real goal is to get a good domestic? I don't believe it.
maria2024202411-06-2025 - I believe you are underestimating the influence of entourage, you/we have no idea how riders are being prepared and the target/goal management has in mind (which may not always be what they tell the riders) AND whether they are being optimally trained to bring out their FULL potential or just to be optimal servants, those are two very different roles, like comparing cycling with triathlon riding.Mistermaumau11-06-2025
Matthew - ITS NOT A LAMBORGHINI 😁
Neither is his centre of gravity, seems he often overestimates how far he can lean forward.