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He’s done it again…
Heerlijk pic.twitter.com/HEz9YFUbTf
— Mathieu Van der Poel (@mathieuvdpoel) May 29, 2022
Captioned ‘lovely’, Mathieu took to Twitter to complete the Giro meme experience, giving the non-Italians what they’d waited all week to see — a robotic Dutchman committing a cuisine faux pas. It’s testament to how bloody brilliant Van der Poel is at riding bikes that an act even this heinous and inflammatory (almost) gets a pass…
The Giro started with ‘spaghettigate’ (the worst of the three crimes if you ask me) — ketchup sprayed liberally over plain pasta…Then, on the second rest day, a picture of a margherita pizza with a pineapple suggestive caption sent the cycling world into meltdown…and prompted the Italian fans to chase him up the final week’s climbs brandishing pineapples…
It has finally happened. pic.twitter.com/oACBAUrQYf
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) May 27, 2022
In the midst of the madness it appeared the tropical fruit had special powers: Dries De Bondt, Van der Poel’s teammate, was handed one during stage 17…he won the next day…
Anyway, after a final week where the pineapple action was almost always more entertaining than the GC, Van der Poel delivered his grand finale…finishing third in the time trial and getting his snap…
The Giro d’Italia social media team wagered the peloton’s great entertainer that he wouldn’t win a stage during the third week. Despite his heroic stage 17 efforts, and late dash in the TT, the 27-year-old could not find a second Giro stage win…and yet…
🍍 @mathieuvdpoel, you attacked so hard that, eventhough you didn’t get a second stage win, you won anyways and everyone who loves cycling won with you. We owe it to you (and let’s hope for the best). #Giro @AlpecinFenix pic.twitter.com/pAXOwqExFp
— Giro d’Italia (@giroditalia) May 29, 2022
Who’s the real winner?
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