Van der Poel Dominates as Brennan & Seixas Announce Themselves | Opening Weekend Breakdown | THEMOVE
THEMOVE
Lance Armstrong
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Spencer Martin and Johan Bruyneel break down the opening weekend of Flemish cobbled Classics, starting with Mathieu van der Poel's dominant victory on Saturday at Omloop Nieuwsblad, and Mathew Brennan and Visma's statement win at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on Sunday, before discussing what to make of Paul Seixas riding the field off his wheel at Faun-Ardèche and tying Tadej Pogačar's climbing record in the process.
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| 0:00.0 | This could also just be the whole podcast, us being like, Matthew Vanderpull is so strong. |
| 0:03.9 | He looks so strong on the bike, because I thought the same thing. |
| 0:06.3 | He looked like a beast out there. |
| 0:08.9 | It was, I'm scared. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm scared for everybody else for the rest of these classics. |
| 0:13.2 | Spencer, if you look at Vanderpull, I mean, we have seen a lot of close-ups from him during the soccer cross season, right? |
| 0:19.8 | But now again, in envelope, I mean, the way this guy |
| 0:22.5 | holds and |
| 0:24.7 | pulls on his handlebars, his |
| 0:26.7 | shoulders, his upper arms, |
| 0:28.9 | it's like, it's scary, man. |
| 0:31.0 | It's scary. It's like, |
| 0:32.6 | you know, this is not like a fragile, |
| 0:34.8 | tiny bike rider. This guy's a beast. |
| 0:41.6 | Yeah. like a fragile tiny bike rider. This guy's a beast. Everybody, welcome back to The Move. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Spencer Martin. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm here with Johann Bernille, |
| 0:45.4 | and we are breaking down the opening classics weekend, |
| 0:49.4 | which just wrapped up, |
| 0:50.8 | which just occurred this last weekend with Omloop. |
| 0:53.5 | Newsblad won by Matthew Vanderpull on Saturday and Kern or Brussels Kern on Sunday with Matthew |
| 0:58.9 | Brennan from Team Bisma Lisa Bike winning a sprint that doesn't really do the race justice though, |
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