{"id":513468,"date":"2026-03-04T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:36:06","slug":"florian-vermeersch-was-too-generous-to-mathieu-van-der-poel-sean-kelly-questions-tactics-on-display-at-opening-weekend-cyclingnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513468\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Florian Vermeersch was too generous to Mathieu van der Poel&#039; \u2013 Sean Kelly questions tactics on display at Opening Weekend &#8211; Cyclingnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-gFBVV95cUxOcUZiYXp2Umh5eDF5ZXhSOEVudFdLZjRuM1lfQ0t5Sy1ub1NMekxrRTlNMFlUOWJHUXRNMndwTTJ2T2tiQW9tekVBZnZKLWdzZXJvbHExcm0tUW5rMHMxNDluUHB3QmdBdE80X180UnVULXBaQ3ZJNlZXV0E2LXR0ckYzTlJaTm1Wdlp3VWZ3ZnI0dkFmVGxIV0x6QmJWTU84UDBkbGZzTjNDX21ZYlcyX2R0X2pMNjFKaW5Db1lGLUhFT3NRb1VXMHdPMmd1ajJkdW5wdGNIejVlbWRodFFMaUktZ1F1LU5acm16b0lYbk51WFg5bk5RaXB3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Florian Vermeersch was too generous to Mathieu van der Poel&#8217; \u2013 Sean Kelly questions tactics on display at Opening Weekend<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Cyclingnews<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxNSnRzRHZjRVVKcWZITlNCbjMta3FaWGpqTHFHYzM5ckZyd1lWcFk0WHBwdTM5eUdmNFg0LXBmMWgyeG1IWjVTRS1GNklXNEpIaUczbGJQSlhVTUpvZS01NHNZaVBmNWx5cTQteDVUSGNkMTkxN0VLQ1ZEbWl1M2JzcGJNVW1oX3E5YXFWWVZ0TXEyT1czSnBlZU9KRkktNjltc05tcFhoM3hpQlZjUUxlZ2FzSUpNdFE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sean Kelly&#8217;s Classics Column: Sometimes, you have to be a glass-cranker<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Cyclingnews<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_gFBVV95cUxPODNvT3J4TVFWR05rbUNKYkFDMVM1TW4zMno2a3Q1eEZQOVNDNG5DMENxbVVlY0Z4M2ZRMlE2X3RhS191WkwyT3l0ZDM3X2lOOGVqN1Vnd2c0VmFURUZ1aHlSNEF5a21rTUlIOWd2cGRvYzVNM2h0UzlXc0FHcndJWTRRVWxpMGd2cEJDRTNDQmpWbG55TjlWRnVnaUFmaGh4aS0xYlBZbUxMby00ejNFSUFGSlM2ZWhBaVVWMFJOTzRYS3gwb2pubGVJYzlDcGtHeFNyQ1BxQXRDbzlERFFtNzNVT3VtSUpmSUFXQ0xBN2lCaGFjTnJsTUd1bXpyUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;You&#8217;re not going to beat him by riding just as hard&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Laurens Ten Dam questions Florian Vermeersch&#8217;s tactics against Mathieu van der Poel<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CyclingUpToDate.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Florian Vermeersch was too generous to Mathieu van der Poel&#8217; \u2013 Sean Kelly questions tactics on display at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-513468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}