"I got cut off and shouted 'Idiot!'… then Mathieu rode up and said: 'Maybe he's not the idiot'" – Oliver Naesen recalls moment he knew Van der Poel would win Omloop |

03/03/2026 13:15 - Mathieu van der Poel’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad victory may have looked inevitable from the outside. For Oliver Naesen, the certainty came much earlier and in far more surreal fashion. Speaking in the HL...

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