Mathieu van der Poel is also the big star of the show in Italy | Sport

By Daniel Dwarswaard

The driver has already turned the Alpecin-Fenix ​​team bus onto the square along the Adriatic coast in the morning, when Van der Poel gets out fifteen minutes later to prepare for the first stage. The organizer of the modest Settimana Coppi e Bartali has been sauntering around for a while under a pleasant sun.

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