Mid-Week Takeaways: What We Learned at Dwars door Vlaanderen

Plus, Wout van Aert falls ill & jeopardizes a battle of the titans at Sunday's Tour of Flanders

The Van der Poel/Van Aert Rivalry is Turning Into a Cold War

Despite being the two best one-day cobblestone racers in the world, Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert haven’t had many chances to face off while both fit and healthy at the world’s biggest cobbled races. For this reason, I was incredibly excited to watch Van der Poel, the comeback kid, tak…