‘Let him go play!’ – Why Alpecin-Deceuninck need to free Mathieu van der Poel at Tour de France

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) ticked off another stage without incident at the Tour de France as his nemesis Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) soaked up the adulation again. Stage 4 seemed ripe for a duel between cycling’s two finest multi-discipline stars but when Van Aert exploded clear on the final climb