Van Gils speaks and gives some clues about the superiority of Pogacar and Van der Poel: "They simply received more from Mother Nature"

In an interesting interview in the Belgian magazine Bahamontes, Lotto-Dsny cyclist Maxim Van Gils spoke about the superiority of cyclists like Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel, praising their innate cycling abilities that he has been able to witness first-hand after a fantastic spring.

Maxim Van Gils praises the abilities of Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel

The young Belgian cyclist from Lotto-Dstny has been one of the revelations of the first part of the season. Van Gils has shone in the Strade Bianche, where he took the third step of the podium, top 10 in the Milan-San Remo, podiums also in GP Miguel Indurain and Fleche Wallonne, and a chocolate medal in a monument like Liege-Bastogne-Liege in addition to victories like the Eschborn-Frankfurt have raised Maxim Van Gils' level.

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A good reason why the Belgian magazine Bahamontes dedicated an interview to him in which, obviously, they asked him about the big names in the peloton such as Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar. Van Gils was clear about the performance of both "There is always someone who is better than the rest. Those people have simply received more from Mother Nature".

In fact, Van Gils explained that his nutritionist told him about Pogacar pointing out that "He has unique musculature. His muscles produce less lactate. That explains why everything he does seems so easy." In fact, the Belgian recounts the anecdote that happened on the podium of the Strade Bianche when he told the Slovenian that he was exhausted and he replied that he was not so tired despite his 80-kilometer solo breakaway. "I had three days of rest, in bed, to recover" Maxim pointed out.

In any case, Maxim Van Gils' confidence is high and he believes that in the Strade Bianche he could have been with Pogacar in the breakaway, but his attack caught him too far from the head of the group. "Surely he would have beaten me later on the way to Siena, but I would have finished second instead of third".