Classics Wrap: What’s In a Record?

Van der Poel and Pogačar Versus History With a brief pause before the Giro d’Italia, I want to bid the Spring Classics goodbye. Not with a tiresome review of what happened, which you already know, and which (on the men’s side) was so incredibly scripted that it barely merited much discussion in real time. (Women’s entire classics season was [fire emoji].) The only thing that struck me about the Men’s major races was how Mathieu van der Poel was actually making headway towards some all-time victory records, which is such an odd thing for a guy who just turned 29....