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Power and technique on the Dutch mud

After a bittersweet start of the season, Tom Pidcock has just admitted that they are hard to beat.

On his Strava account you can see how the Dutchman went for a run right after the race and did 7 kilometres of running at 03:50 min/km.

Mathieu Van der Poel cleared away all doubts with a resounding victory that a solid Tom Pidcock could not prevent.

British rider Tom Pidcock has just taken his first cyclo-cross victory of the season at the X2O Trofee in Kortrijk.

The CX Hulst World Cup race will see the first duel between Pidcock and Van der Poel, awaiting the arrival of Van Aert.

Bogaerts said Van Aert and Van der Poel are simply much better than the current cyclo-cross world champion.

The start of the World Cup being held these days in Qatar has not been strange to riders of the Cyclocross World Cup.

Alpecin-Deceuninck has just announced Mathieu van der Poel's 2022-23 cyclo-cross calendar.

In the same week she has managed to win three races in such different disciplines as DH, CX and Enduro.

Only Vanthourenhout can overcome a Pidcock who is struggling with problems at the 2022 Overijse CX World Cup.

Britain's Tom Pidcock has not competed in cyclo-cross since winning the World Championships almost a year ago.

A meritorious 7th place for the British rider of INEOS Grenadiers in the Superprestige race held in Merkplas, won by an unbeatable Laurens Sweeck.

The return of Pidcock, Van der Poel and Van Aert in cyclo-cross, plus the dominance of Iserbyt, requires a brief analysis of their bikes.

Here is the customized version of the Ridley X-Night SL Disc with which he is racing.