Nothing to lose: What can Mathieu van der Poel achieve in the Ardennes Classics?
Quite apart from Van der Poel’s moving into the upper echelons of the very best all-time Classics riders thanks to his Flanders-Roubaix double, Alpecin-Deceuninck’s newly established record as the first team ever to take all three of these Monuments in the same spring make them the squad to beat for next Spring's Classics as well.