These races which are said to be capable of giving rise to all scenarios, which more than all others justify broadcasting in their entirety and which have been rather very, very lively in recent years, in Roubaix as in Flanders, have kept their promises , but not those of the show. We expected Van der Poel to be asphyxiated by competition, certain of not being able to play eye to eye, but the leader of Alpecin-Deceuninck took to the air very and too quickly.