00:00exactly this is the velodrome it awaits two great champions the velodrome Andre Petrou
00:07they will come onto the velodrome to that left hand side they'll turn right they'll make their
00:12way around they'll get the bell they will then fight it out if indeed it's going to be a duel
00:19of two man against man to decide who lifts the famous cobble it has been so far five hours and
00:2811 minutes of racing and now wow van art on this little cobbled section with 4.9 kilometers to go
00:37comes off over the speed ramp and gets himself set what is going through the mind of the belgian
00:43powerhouse that is wow van art who for so so long has searched for that massive victory who this
00:53season has been close on so many occasions who just a few years ago was the rider that everybody
01:01talked about who's had his own trials and tribulations but still he's at the front now of ruby this could
01:10be the defining moment of wow van art's career in terms of pogaccia we just know he's the most
01:18incredible bike rider pogaccia is rewriting history books with every turn of the pedals
01:29today is something else here's the long drag we were talking about towards ruby but pogaccia doesn't
01:37have any extra power after so much chasing today four kilometers to go
01:4527 seconds bissica goes to the front again
01:51they still believe in this group that they can come back and they they have to believe otherwise
01:56what's the point exactly so bissica comes through pearson now
02:03it's still not over
02:07because when you've got two riders who are going to be looking at each other into a final into the
02:11final kilometer nobody wants to find themselves on the front to lead things out and behind they're
02:18still going to be riding and they're still going to be cohesive so it i think it's right on the
02:24balance
02:25now and right on the cusp of yes it's possible or no it's not right now at 30 seconds you
02:31you could
02:31still say they could do it yes there's there's a big attack now from van dyke as he goes up
02:39the road
02:40and here the jumping around starts van dyke tries to go across bissica is into the wheels van der poel
02:49maybe the legs are not quite as crisp as they were but bissica is desperately trying to shut this down
02:57through the right hand up well van hart the season fourth in flanders third in milano san
03:03remo he's been saying all along the feeling is good today he knew that this was the big chance
03:12he said yesterday it's the final opportunity of the classics this is the moment 10th in the strada
03:20bianchi at the beginning of the season van hart has had a look on his face all day of a
03:26man who
03:27really believes that this is his day his defining day as a bike rider 2.4 kilometers of racing to
03:35go
03:36i don't know about you everyone but if you're right on the edge of the sofa don't fall off
03:41because this is going to be some finish of this barry rubé
03:45pagatia and van hart with two kilometers of racing left now stuven goes on the left hand side
03:54this is no reaction at the moment they all look at each other and stuven has gone now pedersen responds
04:01this is exactly how stuven won milano san remo when he went away and no one went with him and
04:08he just
04:08soloed to a victory pedersen tries to go stuven can see the riders in front of him 31 seconds 1700
04:17meters to go at what point does wow van hart say i refuse to work with you now today i'm
04:24gonna beat you in
04:25this velodrome and in order to do it i have to gamble absolutely everything
04:32pagatia and wow van hart one kilometer of racing now remains they go on to the final sector 300
04:39meters long the velodrome is outdoors and yet you can feel the atmosphere in here it's almost like
04:46it's riff lifting a fake roof off it's incredible the bubbling anticipation of this crowd they take the
04:54right hander and we get ready to greet these two riders who are going to duel it out and if
05:00they
05:01don't mess around no one is going to come back into the velodrome pagatia and wow van hart the 123rd
05:10edition of parry rubé and we have two of the classiest bike riders of this generation about to turn wow
05:20the atmosphere is incredible pagatia and van hart after five hours fifteen minutes
05:27this is absolutely sensational the roar from the crowd and these two riders now look at how tightly
05:33poised wow van hart is he doesn't want to
05:39lead this one out and you can see as they get the bell here the world champion is going to
05:44come through
05:45the line with one lap remaining and wow van hart wants to win parry rubé but tadi pagatia he wants
05:51to seal the deal and win all five monuments here we go now get set is it the world champion
05:58is it wow van
06:00art is pagatia gonna clinch all five monuments pagatia nervously twitching face right and left here goes
06:09wow van hart wow van hart with a massive acceleration van hart starts to go away and wow van hart
06:16is
06:16powering his way towards the most incredible victory in parry rubé wow van hart wonderful
06:27i cannot believe the bike race we've just seen that is absolutely sensational he's done it
06:36jasper steuven finishes on the podium in third place and wow van hart the defining bike race of this
06:46incredible bike riders career you have just witnessed a bike race that you could never ever write a script
06:54for i cannot believe the race we just witnessed for the last five and a quarter hours
07:04no race on earth comes close to parry rubé and a champion has just conquered the queen of the
07:13classics the hell of the north after all of the trials and tribulations that wow van hart has been
07:20through and the adversity and the injuries and the crashes that he's had to come back from
07:26and he's been able to conquer the queen of the classics i'm literally shaking i cannot believe
07:33this race and wow van hart an emotional bike rider at this finish line
07:40he's done it he's dreamt for his entire career tade pegatia had everything thrown at him today
07:50he is a world champion beyond a world champion he is an exceptional exceptional bike rider he's a bike
07:59rider you just love to watch he got everything thrown at him today but wow van hart had more in
08:07the legs at the
08:08end but look at how delighted everyone is foreign and the roar from the fans and the the philandrian flags
08:18that are here inside the velodrome staff members are crying and he's crying richard blooger wow what a day what
08:27a day
08:29it just all came right wow van hart is an exceptional exceptional rider but he has dreamt about this day
08:41it has been so long since his monument victory in milano sanremo he's worked so hard everything today
08:49was focused he was in his own zone there was times when he just looked like he was the only
08:55bike
08:56rider in the race he was the only person that mattered mils pollock comes in
09:03this will go down as one of the days of bike racing ever in the history of this incredible sport
09:12look at the way pegatia was on the inside but van hart just went as though the finish line was
09:19pulling him in pegatia has had so many challenges in this parry rubé today he just had no answer and
09:28today we saw the sprinting might of a rider who deserves parry rubé
09:38i don't even think it was just a physical thing that wow van hart had over pegatia here no this
09:45is a
09:47a want a need a desire from deep within to win this race yeah to put everything behind him
09:56it is he's been third in the past he's been second he was in a position to win
10:02and he came off car for the lab but he had that puncture a few years ago
10:06and he still finished on the podium but it's what could have been
10:11and now he's conquered rubé
10:16it's incredible what we've seen there's his family that's the important moment for him
10:23they've been the ones who have shared the trials the tribulations the terrible injuries
10:29the moments of actually career threatening injuries but he's fought back he's shown the strength of mind
10:38the strength of character and the strength of that body to come back and win the hell of the north
10:44he's broken pagatia but you have to say pagatia almost tamed parry rubé despite everything that was
10:54thrown at him let's take a look at the results wout van hart wins the 123rd parry rubé ahead of
11:03tade
11:03pagatia behind them in the podium jasper steuven what a result for him matthew van der poel
11:10after being over two and a quarter minutes behind it ends up in fourth place with laporte and van dyk
11:18agent
11:18jasper steuven
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