Positioning, Sense of Urgency Play Role in Van der Poel Wins at Baal and Hulst

Van der Poel shows that if you want to beat him, you have to be ever vigilant and ready to cover his inevitable attacks.

After a super-rare humbling at the hands of Wout van Aert at World Cup Dendermonde, Mathieu van der Poel could have let the defeat get to his head or he could, IDK, win four races in five days to bounce back from the setback. After winning World Cup not-in-Hulst in vintage Mathieu-van-der-Poel-is-ruining-cyclocross fashion, he went from getting stuck in…