Cross O, what is life is fine if you are in February still in surplus. And as world champion the remaining grain can be harvested. Last weekend, the DVV-Trophy, next weekend the world cup. That may not be more wrong.
For the cijferfetisjisten: Lille (Saturday) and Hoogstraten (Sunday) – his tenth ‘double’ of the season, the 26th in his pro career – brought the seizoensscore of Van der Poel on 30. 30 to 32 driven crosses: a afwerkingspercentage of 93.75%. The world champion is now since the Koppenbergcross (1 november 2018) undefeated and well on your way to error-free 8 on 8 in the world cup. Only one man to him came. “Sven Nys.” Exactly, in 2007. “Been a while ago. I’m not normally hot for records. But now it is so close, it plays well.”
pending he struck in Lille three birds with one stone and rijfde, in addition to the dagzege also the DVV-Trophy (30,000 euros) and… the tussensprintklassement (good for a bonus of 2,500 euros). “We must not be gullible about. That is also for me a bomb of money. I can a lot of fun things to do”, he knows his world. There comes Saturday in the final event in Middelkerke and a further 30,000 euros of the world cup on top of it. (grins) “There are others who in the past have forfeited to the Belgian coast. But I’m going to assume that it will be ok. Eleven points ahead of Aerts should, in principle, be sufficient.”
