With mighty pedal strokes the startled pursuers chase a daredevil who has no regard for existing conventions and hopes to provide an absolute surprise. Mollema's courage is not rewarded and the last word goes to the thirteen years younger Biniam Girmay who writes the Draai van de Kaai to his name.

42 laps of almost three kilometers. One and a half hours of going full throttle accompanied by roaring beats, sultry summer hits, genuine Dutch hits and karaoke sing-alongs. With a special festival site where you can't enter without an entrance ticket (21 euros). Free to visit, unlike previous editions, this year is the cycling event. It helps that it is summery warm when tour artists such as Girmay (winner of the green jersey) and Dylan Groenewegen race seventy kilometers through the city center.

Things get really interesting in the final phase. Led by Mollema, a group of four sneaks away. They hold out for a long time and one lap before the end, the lead is a good twenty seconds. At the start of the last lap, the mini-peloton shifts up a gear and reduces the gap to a handful of seconds.

In a final attempt, Mollema attacks from the leading group. In the last kilometre, the man who once finished sixth and seventh in the final classification of the Tour de France is caught after all. In the subsequent sprint, Girmay is the better of Dutch champion Groenewegen. Thus, the Eritrean Tour sensation (three stage wins) wins after missing out on Chaam, Mark Cavendisch triumphs, then an appealing Dutch criterium after all.