00:00Tyres off for the rider of Total Energy, you can see the...
00:07Insert as Van Der Poel is going backwards, he's got a problem.
00:11Oh, Van Der Poel is now off and running cyclocross style.
00:15Bike change, Matthew Van Der Poel and it is Philipsen who gives him his bike.
00:21And he's not getting underway, Philipsen now he's gonna have to run in his cleats to try and
00:25give him a push, he can't get his feet in the pedals, the cleats.
00:29Oh, what is going on in this race? Van Der Poel can't even go here, he says to Philipsen you
00:36carry on.
00:38Philipsen needs to get back on his bike right now, he needs to run, get back on his bike,
00:42try and get himself back into the race because Alpes and Premier Tech have gone from being in a
00:45situation where they're in one of the strongest situations with two potential winners and look
00:51at this for the three-time winner now, Binyam Ghirmai, look at the way he's coming to a standstill.
00:57Van Der Poel is going to change his own wheel here.
01:00This is Thibaut Del Grosso who's changing the wheel for Van Der Poel who,
01:04Van Der Poel his bike is already, what, 100 meters down the road and with absolutely no urgency whatsoever.
01:12Well, they decided let's have a bike change, Van Der Poel decides it's not worth it and suddenly we've
01:19gone from Pogaccia on the back foot to Van Der Poel, the race is coming undone for the three-time
01:26winner, Mathieu Van Der Poel. Things have gone horribly, horribly wrong, he finally gets going
01:32but how far back is he now?
01:41This race never, never fails to throw things at you. But look at what's happened at the front, so
01:48Walt Van Aert's already come off the sector, along with Laurence Pithy, a big, big gap to this group of
01:55eight riders or so behind, Louis Aske is still in that group, Anthony Terje is coming off the ground,
02:01there is Mati Mohoric, who's also come off the sector, it's already 25 seconds since they came
02:07off that sector. But where's the world champion as well? Well, the decision was the right one,
02:14which Philipson unselfishly just gave, um, gave Mathieu Van Der Poel his bike,
02:21but it just wouldn't work, it wasn't right for him, so they change over and Alps and Premier
02:28Tech have gone from the force in the race to the team who are now on the back foot.
02:34This is a massive time gap. Huge, and with very little assistance. It's not like when we saw
02:42Taddy Pogacar coming back with a large group of riders and teammates to hand to help. This is a
02:49completely different scenario, this is going into the final phase of the race. If you put it into three
02:55phases, you've got the first 100 kilometers phase one, the medal section, you see a problem here for
03:00the rider from U18. Florian Vermeer, big problem for him, and Matt Van Der Poel's got all sorts of
03:07issues here. There's something else wrong with this bike as well, he just, he's not got any momentum
03:13whatsoever. I don't even think it's the bike, I think, oh, whether it's his pedals, whether he's broken a cleat
03:19as well. I think he has, hasn't he? That's why he couldn't get his feet in the pedals or something,
03:24something is wrong, big style. Van Der Poel's out, game over, surely, this is such a shame.
03:33Paris-Roubaix can absolutely destroy you in a matter of seconds. Has he broken a pedal or something?
03:44Looking at the way he couldn't clip into Philipsen's bike, so that's been two minutes and seven seconds
03:51now since Walt Van Aert came off Arenberg. So in a 2.3 kilometer sector, he's lost over two minutes
04:02now.
04:03And they may well rue the fact that they didn't take advantage of Pogaccia being out the back. I think
04:08they played it quite fairly at that time, and now they're not going to hold on for Mathieu Van Der
04:16Poel.
04:16Honestly,
04:19looking at his body language, and I hate to say it, but it's like his head's gone.
04:25He's not in that fight of, I can still come back, it's still possible.
04:30I've got the adrenaline, it's like it's done. Here he is, let's have a look, you never know with a
04:36champion
04:37like this, what will go through his mind, whether he can get back. Two minutes and 11 seconds.
04:442.12 to Mathieu Van Der Poel. Now he looks like he's started to go, starting to ride, but it's
04:50a
04:50massive, massive ask to come back into this bike race.
04:58We've still got 18 sectors to go.
05:04It's not beyond the realms of possibility.
05:11But that moment when he hands the bike to Philipson, Philipson gives him the bike and then he hands it
05:17back because he thinks it's just not possible. Incredible.
05:21Stander Wolves had a bike change as well, Ford Catalan CMA CGM.
05:28He looks quite relaxed, he's just going to ride and see how close he can get.
05:33Here's the moment, Philipson immediately get on the bike, off we go, but he can't get his feet in the
05:38pedals.
05:45Never have you seen Mathieu Van Der Poel so unable to do anything on a bike.
05:52He can do everything.
05:56I've got to say, chapeau to Thibaut Del Grosso and Jasper Philipson. The way they immediately
06:04got to work, they knew exactly what they needed to do. And the fact that Mathieu Van Der Poel,
06:09he didn't wait until another 10 meters getting off the sector. He was like, I'm having a bike change
06:13now. Whether this is going to disrupt everyone behind me, I need this bike change right this second.
06:19The fact that Del Grosso just went, I'll just change the wheel then.
06:24Even though Van Der Poel is 100 meters up the road.
06:27It's amazing. Absolutely incredible.
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