The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox! You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful After the chasing group came exceedingly close but failed to catch Mathieu van der Poel in the dying moments of the E3 Saxo Classic, Visma-Lease a Bike insisted their second-placed finisher Per Strand Hagenes "made no mistake" in the surprising finale. Hagenes, 22, was perhaps not the rider Visma thought they would have in contention for the win on Friday, but suddenly he was in a late chase group closing down on Van der Poel in the final kilometres. However, despite coming within metres of the eventual winner in the final kilometre, the four chasers failed to actually make the junction to the winner, with Florian Vermeersch (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) holding off to ask for one last turn, and not getting it from his companions Hagenes, Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) and day-long breakaway rider Stan Dewulf (Decathlon CMA CGM).…