Three Quick Thoughts: World Road Race Championships

My initial post-race reactions from a battle of the titans on a brutal city center circuit at the World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland

Inside the final 25 kilometers of hours of all-out racing in the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, Mathieu van der Poel attacked, and dropped, an elite front group of Mads Pedersen, Tadej Pogačar, and Wout van Aert on an almost absurdly technical 50-corner 14-kilometer-long city circuit to solo to his first career Elite Men’s Road Race World Title. Not even…