Mathieu van der Poel: “The MTB World Championship title is the only one I’m still missing”
“This Is Home” is a video series that has been visiting cyclists—mostly mountain bikers—in their home turf for years, seeking to look behind the facade of the racers.
Now it’s Mathieu van der Poel’s turn. Of course, road racing is a focus, and cyclocross is another. MVP has already been world champion in both disciplines. That’s also why the 31-year-old says the world title in cross-country is the last major goal he still wants to achieve.
His family is another focus; his father, Adri van der Poel, was also a cyclocross world champion, a road world runner-up, and a Tour de France stage and classic winner. Van der Poel’s grandfather, the Frenchman Raymond Poulidor, is a cycling legend who, as the eternal runner-up and unlucky soul of the Tour de France, enjoys enormous popularity in France even beyond his death.
We also see Mathieu van der Poel in his second home on Spain’s Costa Blanca, tearing down trails and pulling off whips in his road jersey. Okay, a CC whip, but still.
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