procycling

(Caveat: I didn't see any replay of the final, so I only have my first impression – which often turns out faulty after checking – as a base...) With the curves, positioning played a big role, it didn't look like anyone could produce a really big kick in the last straight line. Then a legless Milan went backwards, and Van der Poel was cooked by his efforts in the previous mile to keep position because he worn his teammates out earlier (also possibly a bit by his staying at the very front of the peloton in the last climb); Penhoët was simply being Penhoët: this guy always finishes around the 5^th^ place, no matter who the guys ahead of him are, you'd put him in a local junior race, he would still finish 4^th^ 😄