After the dust had settled on Mathieu van der Poel's dominant Omloop het Nieuwsblad victory last weekend, many looked at whether his race rivals could've done more to thwart the Dutchman from adding the Belgian Classic to his already vast palmarès.
Our Spring Classics columnist and nine-time Monument winner, Sean Kelly, was one of those voices, urging eventual runner-up Florian Vermeersch (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) to have played it differently with the Alpecin-Premier Tech leader in the final stages of Saturday's race.
