{"id":456352,"date":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:57:07","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\/uk\/456352\/","title":{"rendered":"'Florian Vermeersch was too generous to Mathieu van der Poel' \u2013 Sean Kelly questions tactics on display at Opening Weekend – Cyclingnews"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Florian Vermeersch was too generous to Mathieu van der Poel’ \u2013 Sean Kelly questions tactics on display at Opening Weekend<\/a>  CyclingnewsSean Kelly’s Classics Column: Sometimes, you have to be a glass-cranker<\/a>  Cyclingnews“You’re not going to beat him by riding just as hard…” – Laurens Ten Dam questions Florian Vermeersch’s tactics against Mathieu van der Poel<\/a>  CyclingUpToDate.comTen Dam on Vermeersch\u2019s unusual Omloop tactics: \u201cMaybe he thought he was as good as Mathieu\u201d<\/a>  IDLprocycling.com“Why is he riding with him?”: Sean Kelly frustrated by Van der Poel’s opponent handing over Omloop victory on a silver plate<\/a>  CyclingUpToDate.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Florian Vermeersch was too generous to Mathieu van der Poel’ \u2013 Sean Kelly questions tactics on display at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}