Cycling
Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar resume hostilities in Spring Classics duel for supremacy
Mathieu van der Poel is one-third of his way to making history. Only 269km of cobbles, circuitous, narrow streets, and leg-sapping climbs, at one of cycling’s most brutal races, stand in the way of him and an outright record of four Tour of Flanders titles. Victory in Oudenaarde on Sunday would put him two-thirds of the way to an unprecedented achievement: winning all of the year’s first three Monuments in a row.
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