Mads Pedersen stated that regardless of being on his finest stage, there was merely no method of beating Mathieu van der Poel at Paris-Roubaix.
The Dane was a part of the choose group that shaped previous to Van der Poel launching his Roubaix successful transfer. However as soon as the world champion took off up the highway, Pedersen stated there was little he might do to reply.
“To be trustworthy, I am actually completely satisfied,” Pedersen stated. “Mathieu was in a special league at present and the best way he was racing was actually spectacular. For me it is arduous to beat Jasper [Philipsen] in a traditional race in a dash so, f**ok, magic ought to occur if I had been to beat him in a dash at a race like at present so I am completely satisfied.”
“I’ve zero excuses at present,” he added. “I used to be undoubtedly at 100%, I used to be simply overwhelmed by higher boys at present.”
As soon as Van der Poel took flight on the three star sector in Orchies, Pedersen defined that everybody throughout the group was absolutely conscious of simply how harmful the transfer was. Van der Poel quickly constructed up his benefit however confirmed no signal of relenting because the cobbles continued to reach.
Pedersen buried himself in an try to scale back the deficit however, in the end, his rivals’ assault proved to be merely unanswerable. The Dane defined that after it turned clear there was no method the group might convey him again, it then turned a tactical recreation forward of the dash for the remaining podium locations within the velodrome.
“At that time everybody was actually on the restrict so there was not a variety of chit chatting left,” he defined. “Everybody was principally going flat out as a result of we wished to catch him once more. At one level when he was simply gaining time and gaining time, we had been form of doing a second race behind.
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“We additionally wished to scale back the choice in our group and make it smaller and smaller. Everybody was dedicated and going flat out considering that possibly he [Van der Poel] has a puncture or no matter, so that you by no means know – the race is just not at all times over when he assaults however then at present it was.”
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“We had been nonetheless going all out,” he added, reflecting on the closing levels of the race. “Philipsen went on the sector after Carrefour l’Arbre after which Kung obtained dropped so there have been solely three guys left. From then on, Jasper wished to drag.
“At that second I additionally knew that Jasper is a tricky man to beat and he additionally had a couple of kilometres within the wheel the place we had been pulling. So, it was additionally form of settling in to dash for third. I knew that Nils [Politt] was on the restrict however so was I. However I trusted my dash sufficient to know that it was attainable to beat Nils at the least.
“I believe you noticed the strongest in my group,” he added. “After which as I stated, when Mathieu went everybody was going flat out as a result of you do not need to provide this man 30 seconds, so all of us tried. However he was simply higher than us at present. I actually do not know what else to say as a result of we tried the whole lot we might to beat him nevertheless it simply wasn’t attainable.”
Pedersen obtained the higher of Van der Poel at Gent-Wevelgem, however he’s nonetheless but to raised the Dutchman in a Monument. The Lidl-Trek star stated he must suppose on a brand new technique to get the higher of the world champion in a Monument setting within the months forward.
“You already know at Flanders I believe I raced with my head up my very own ass,” he stated. “In the present day I attempted to do higher however as I simply stated he was spectacular, and I simply could not observe. So, methods to beat him in a Monument? I simply do not know but.”
