After Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) ended a historic trilogy of Spring Classics duels at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday with the Dutchman coming out on top for a hat-trick, they likely won't race each other again until the Tour de France.
The pair dictated the racing at the first three Monuments of the year, Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, becoming the first pair of riders to podium all three in the same season in the process, but Van der Poel and Pogačar's calendars will now take different paths to cycling's biggest race.
