Just a few hours after he won a third Tour of Flanders with a spectacular solo breakaway, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was already on a flight to Spain en route to half a week's worth of warm-weather training as the initial part of his final build-up for Paris-Roubaix.
Van der Poel caught the plane late on Sunday evening and his initial plan is to remain in Spain until Thursday evening, when he’ll head back north for the Queen of the Classics and a defence of his 2023 title.
