Very pleasing race, that. Proper hard-racing terrain, good field, nice weather, exhilarating finish.
Van der Poel is quite reminiscent of his father Adri, who was very prominent when I first started paying attention to professional cycling, and who was not averse to handing out occasional beatings to the mighty Sean Kelly et al. Possibly with something extra, though - today VDP junior demonstrated a similar ability to Gianni Bugno for sprinting from the front (with plenty of pulling already in his legs) and still riding away from them at the end of a tough 250+km race. Impressive stuff; he looks on course for some serious domination in the big races, but hopefully Wout van Aert will continue his similar rise and pose an ongoing major threat.
And of course we saw Carl Sagan getting his arrse handed to him, again......bonus!