The sixty -fourth Brabante arrow It tells two stories that are a bit intertwine, that chase joy and melancholy, which greatly reveal of two champions found and missing. Remco Evenepol and Wout Van Aert They are not yet present and past Belgian cycling and not just Belgian. At least we hope, at least so we wish everyone who struggles to get used to the idea that Van Aert has taken the way to sunset.
Remco Evenepoel and Wout Van Aert are two absolute champions that today on the roads of the Brabante they played it until the end today with an escape 50 kilometers from the arrival and with a head on the finish of Overijse In the end, he gave reason to the youngest of the two Belgians who today returned to the race after an accident that kept him still almost 5 months and who, so he told, also led him to think of quitting.
Many probably hoped and dreamed that they both won. Remco to get on an equal footing with the iella who tormented him in all these months, Wout to shake off a season that sees him fogged, second, fourth, always a little far from his rivals of all time, which is making many of his certainties falter. It was used for both winnings. Like bread … it is usually said. That in cycling, as in a few other sports, he earns with difficulty. But cycling is a cruel sport that knows no draw and for this cycling is the most unfair sport that is there. There is no draw and cycling never changes, the only rule is to put a millimeter of tubular in front of the others. In cycling paper he wins and paper loses but without makeup and without deception in an ancient law that sanctifies a sport where everyone struggles to the same identical way
With a long and powerful sprint after over 160 kilometers Racing today on the streets of his Belgium Remco he found answers to many of his questions has resumed a piece of his destiny, he canceled months of doubts and suffering and has returned to make his Olympic star shine. “An incredible victory that I was also surprised- he said at the finish- I would never have thought of being able to do such a race, attacking from afar with Wout. Before the sprint I thought I had already lost and but I would have thought of beating a runner who in the past won on Elisi fields …”. And in an actus he erases his demons
Behind him Wout Van Aert. Which is always wout van aert because he fights, fights, with all the class and tenacity he has, who does not give up and even today you read it in the face that ran with a desperate desire to win. But there is something that is looking for. There is something that can no longer find that he escapes him from the fingers when he seems to be there within reach. “Today I felt really good- he said at the end- in an ending so I hoped to win but Remco was stronger he deserved the victory. I was not sorry and I didn’t regret because I found a stronger one than me …”. Just listen to it wout van aert to understand why this Belgian champion is so loved and welcome. To realize how fondly the cycling fans are, of how much he will see that his is just a crisis and not a surrender, of those who, if they could, would pedal with him to bring him back to victory
Remco Evenepoel and Wout van aert so cycling can be sweet and cruel. So today she has put in front of it and in the next few days she will still put them in front of them. On Sunday, in Holland, the Amsparel Gold Race is run, then on Wednesday 23 we return to Belgium with the Freccia Vallone and with the Liegi-Bastogne-Rier on Sunday 27, the last classic spring monument. But it will not only be a “matter” between them two. The man to beat is Tadej Pogacar That in the Triptych of the Ardenne points to the full loot and that the Amspel has already won it two years ago. But it will be necessary to keep an eye on too Thomas Pidcock , Tiesj Benood, Neilson PowlessWell Healy and Julian Alaphilippe .