In sector 6, Van Aert even accelerated and spun with only Florian Vermeersch and Mads Pedersen in the wheel. Then gave an attack, in the last kilometers, making the Roubaix velodrome roar. Without success, and it was in the sprint that he was beaten by the Danish. “I tried, but he launched early, I couldn’t do anything other than staying in his wheel,” he judged after having hugged women and children, his face still lined with dust, explaining to his elder, Georges, that there was “Three guys better” than him this Sunday. “Of course I hoped better, but I have no regrets, neither on my preparation nor on the way in which I ran, I gave everything I had. I am happy, happy and satisfied with what I did. It’s the bicycle ”, He philosophized, detached, far from the runner who does not hide his wrath, sometimes.
