{"id":2104,"date":"2026-04-12T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:19:56","slug":"van-aert-too-strong-for-pogacar-who-will-still-have-to-wait-relive-the-race-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Van Aert too strong for Poga\u00e7ar who will still have to wait&#8230; Relive the race with us&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-177110\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-entertainment font-weight-semi-bold@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Come on, I&#8217;ll leave it to you<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>We&#8217;ll see you later for our good old Liguain and the duel between OL and Lorient. Kisses everyone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177109\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Does Tadej Poga\u00e7ar have the strength? Well no <\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>  \u201cI have no regrets. I did my best,\u201d declared the double world champion at a press conference after a race of crazy intensity which he lost in the sprint to the Belgian with whom he had isolated himself 53 kilometers from the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Penalized by three punctures, the first 120 km from the goal, the Slovenian said he \u201cspent a lot of energy to get back to the leading group before Arenberg\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Once alone with Van Aert, he tried to take down the Belgian several times, but never succeeded. \u201cI quickly realized that it was going to be impossible to let Wout go on the cobbles and beat him in the sprint. On the velodrome, the legs were like spaghetti,\u201d he added, insisting that Van Aert deserved his victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew how to come back every time after experiencing so much bad luck. He never gave up and he is a hero for all children,\u201d underlined Pogacar, who indicated that he would come back to try his luck, but probably not next year. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177067\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">This is only the second Monument won by Van Aert<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>Six years after Milan San Remo, when he was promised so much at the time. But we are perhaps talking about the worst rider in the peloton, used to improbable second places, particularly in Roubaix (three times 2nd)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177060\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Van Aert&#8217;s first words on France TV<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>The beautiful tribute to his former teammate Michael Goolaerts who died after a fall during the race in 2018. This sums up well one of the most appreciated riders in the peloton<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-placeholder u-placeholder-twitter\" data-vendor=\"xtwitter-3cVkYrxq\">\n<div class=\"p-xxl@xs border-color-grey-200 radius-l@xs cmp-placeholder u-hidden\">\n<p class=\"mb-m@xs text-l@xs\">By clicking on<span class=\"ml-xxs@xs font-weight-bold@xs\">\u201cI accept\u201d<\/span>you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to the content of our partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-xl@xs text-s@xs\">More information on the Cookie management policy page<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"mx-auto@xs flex@xs items-center@xs justify-center@xs gap-xxs@xs c-btn c-btn--primary cmp-button\">I accept<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177052\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Did Poga\u00e7ar make a mistake by launching his sprint so late?<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>This is what the Slovenian will be criticized for, obviously, who must have known that he had little chance of beating van Aert in a very short effort. And at the same time with 250 terminals in his legs, no doubt he couldn&#8217;t do better. Maybe it happened at the Tree crossroads when he lost his balance for a few seconds when launching his attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177044\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">There is a form of justice for this good Wout<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>And a form of logic too. Poga\u00e7ar impresses almost everyone all year round, and fortunately there is still a village of die-hards left to resist the Slovenian ogre. It&#8217;s true that the occasion was great, without Van Der Poel in the photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177039\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Wout gave the best runner in history no chance<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>He tumbled onto his right side, climbed onto the pedals, and Pogar\u00e7ar could do nothing. Absolutely nothing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177031\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">I tell you that but Laporte buries everyone behind<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>We will see straight to our royal sprint in a few minutes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177028\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">You shouldn&#8217;t be stupid in front of you<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>Well they are big boys, I think they can manage the 25 seconds ahead of the pack while preparing for their duel on the velodrome<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177025\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">I learned thanks to Alex Pasteur that S\u00e9bastien Turgot is the last Frenchman to be on the podium in Roubaix<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>Christophe Laporte can put an end to 14 years of drought if he manages the chasing group in a sprint, but there is still a way to go<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177022\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Poga\u00e7ar must clear his head<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>He will not have 36 opportunities like this to slam the last big race that is missing from his record. But Van Aert can say the same thing after so much bad luck in recent seasons in Roubaix or elsewhere<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177019\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">WE&#8217;RE GOING TO HAVE A SPRINT<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>And the best? The two will have no room to observe each other, the Van der Poel group is less than 30 seconds away. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177017\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-ultramarine font-weight-semi-bold@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">OH TADEJ WHO AVOID THE FALL OF A NOTHING!!!<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>Van Aert seemed to give in meter after meter but the Slovenian lost momentum by sliding off the rear wheel. Van Aert only has one kilometer to go and then we&#8217;ll see you again on the velodrome<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177014\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<div class=\"mb-xs@xs flex@xs items-center@xs gap-xs@xs\">\n<p class=\"font-weight-semi-bold@xs font-source-serif-pro text-xl@xs\">18km:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tennis-highlight\" src=\"https:\/\/static.20mn.fr\/live-post-label\/logos\/ef58b250-8227-402e-988d-de3e92fafa3b.png\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"\/><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-semi-bold@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Poga\u00e7ar awaits the Carrefour de l\u2019Arbre, friends<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be crazy when Tadej tries to unhook him, sit on the couch and prepare the popcorn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177012\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">Camphin-en-P\u00e9v\u00e8le is now<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>1.8km which is worth 100 at this stage of the race. Poga\u00e7ar opens the road, the close-ups are crazy when you see how it shakes in the middle of the road, you have to finish with your forearms in a state&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-177010\">\n<header class=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"color-black font-weight-regular@xs font-source-serif-pro heading-xs@xs break-word\">First moment of relative boredom this afternoon<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mt-s@xs c-content\">\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you which of the two in front will raise their arms in Roubaix. I think we will have a first clue after the Carrefour de l&#8217;Arbre, if Wout is still in the wheel, he will be favorite for the sprint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come on, I&#8217;ll leave it to you We&#8217;ll see you later for our good old Liguain and the duel between OL and Lorient. Kisses everyone Does Tadej Poga\u00e7ar have the strength? Well no \u201cI have no regrets. I did my best,\u201d declared the double world champion at a press conference after a race of crazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}