{"id":1823010,"date":"2026-03-12T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1823010"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:38:03","slug":"van-der-poel-schools-everybody-in-tirreno-with-monster-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1823010","title":{"rendered":"Van der Poel Schools Everybody in Tirreno with Monster Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-How-watch-MSR.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Updated March 12, 2026 11:55AM<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-base-loose\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tts-player relative w-full\">\n<div id=\"beyondwords-player\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mathieu van der Poel uncorked a wild long sprint to deny the best of the bunch on Thursday at Tirreno-Adriatico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aspect-video\">\n<p>The flying Dutchman left the likes of Wout van Aert, Filippo Ganna, Matteo Jorgenson, and Isaac del Toro choking on his exhaust with a 300m sprint toward his second victory of the week at the Italian tour.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s victory coming just nine days ahead of Milan-San Remo, MVDP is looking more than ready for a brawl with Tadej Poga\u010dar over the Poggio and down the Via Roma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could play a bit of a gamble, because I\u2019d already won a stage,\u201d Van der Poel said at the finish. \u201cI waited for the sprint and did everything perfectly in the final kilometer, I think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough day. I\u2019m glad I was able to finish it off, and I\u2019m happy with my form,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Giulio Pellizzari and Tobias Johannessen were next-best behind Van der Poel after a tense, tactical final 10km of racing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd3b The power did all the talking. A UAE-misunderstanding, the Italians anticipate, but no one could come close to Mathieu.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the @continentaltire Last KM \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Follow #TirrenoAdriatico @CA_Ita on Rai (\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9) and on Eurosport (\ud83c\udf10) pic.twitter.com\/68SJKDE2uP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tirreno Adriatico (@TirrenAdriatico) March 12, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visma-Lease a Bike lit the fuse of Thursday\u2019s stage but came away empty-handed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-placeholder-wrapper relative w-full border-t border-b border-border-light col-span-full my-3 md:col-span-10 md:col-start-2\">\n<div class=\"mb-[30px] min-h-[30px] text-center\"><span class=\"font-utility-4 font-medium tracking-[1px] text-neutral-500 uppercase\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-placeholder -mt-[30px] mb-[30px] flex min-h-[250px] w-full items-center justify-center\">\n<div class=\"w-full \">\n<div id=\"in-content-leaderboard-I0-P0-CMI0\" class=\"flex justify-center text-left\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jorgenson split and then controlled the group through the final 15km for Van Aert, but the Burly Belgian ultimately couldn\u2019t match his long-time rival\u2019s long-burning kick.<\/p>\n<p>Del Toro was also active in the final but lost his leader\u2019s jersey to Pellizzari. Bonus seconds at the line put the Italian star two seconds up on GC.<\/p>\n<p>Del Toro and Pellizzari will be front and center of Friday\u2019s extra-hilly stage. With close to 4,000m climbing across 185km, Van der Poel might struggle to secure his hat-trick before the weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Results: Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 4<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Updated March 12, 2026 11:55AM<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-base-loose\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/van-der-poel-schools-everybody-with-monster-tirreno-sprint\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-How-watch-MSR.jpg&#8221;] Jim Cotton Updated March 12, 2026 11:55AM Mathieu van der Poel uncorked a wild long sprint to deny the best of the bunch on Thursday at Tirreno-Adriatico. The flying Dutchman left the likes of Wout van Aert, Filippo Ganna, Matteo Jorgenson, and Isaac del Toro choking on his exhaust with a 300m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1823010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}