{"id":560700,"date":"2026-05-01T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:46:12","slug":"i-was-lying-on-pogacars-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560700\/","title":{"rendered":"I was lying on Pogacar\u2019s bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

The run-up to Cipressa is extremely fast and with a fresh peloton taking it on, the tension is sky-high into the decisive climb of the race. This year, near the front of the peloton, a crash took out Tadej Pogacar and Wout Van Aert – whilst Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> was also in some way involved.<\/p>\n


\nUnknowningly, he had been part of what was one of the major stories of the week. \u201cI read a day after Milano-Sanremo that Pogacar\u2019s bike had broken in that crash, and I was lying on Pogacar\u2019s bike,\u201d Marsman shared with Wielerflits<\/a> at the Tour of Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in good form that day too. That is evident from the moment you fall, and with whom: Pogacar, [Wout] Van Aert, Mathieu [van der Poel] himself. You are in the right place at that moment, but it is a shame that it happens. I think I really could have done something for Mathieu. But I do think I can draw confidence from this for the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"pogacar<\/p>\n

Whilst it’s not overly clear, TV footage confirms Tim Marsman crashed right with Tadej Pogacar<\/p>\n

A new life in the World Tour\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dutchman didn’t sustain meaningful injuries but found himself surrounded by the sport’s best at that particular moment, where he was on the ground with the winners of all four monuments of the season thus far.<\/p>\n

That is certainly quite the story for the 25-year old, who was signed from continental level onto Alpecin this winter. \u201cIt took some adjusting, but actually everything is going very well. I am very happy about that. It is a step up from the continental level, but it is just going well. You notice that you are making rapid progress and that it is getting easier and easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest adjustment, strangely enough, is the traveling,” he describes through the lens of a World Tour debutant.<\/p>\n

“In the WorldTour, you are away from home much more. At the beginning of the year to Australia, Oman, Paris-Nice\u2026 You are home much less. That takes some getting used to. And the level. Everyone can ride a bike, everyone gets paid to ride a bike”.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The run-up to Cipressa is extremely fast and with a fresh peloton taking it on, the tension is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,99800,109543,101,8782,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-milano-sanremo","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560700","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=560700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}