With the world championship victory, the Dutchman completes an unforgettable season at almost 40 years of age. The race was a continuous succession of twists to the limit of the incredible. Like his life
Annemiek Van Vleuten says that this “is a really good story, the most beautiful of all”. Obvious: it’s her. But he is right: when the strongest wins, the strongest by detachment, there is usually no taste. But its story is completely different: it is so full of falls and rises, of hells and paradises that it seems written by a TV series screenwriter, but of the successful ones, those capable of keeping you glued to the screen from the first to the last episode. , from the first to the last season.