The races vary, as do the colors he’s wearing, but the photos look the same. Mathieu Van der Poel’s long arms aloft in a victory salute, a smile across his face, with no one else in the frame.

Sometimes, Van der Poel is wearing the orange national team skinsuit of The Netherlands. Other times, he’s wearing the Dutch national cyclocross champion’s kit, a title he’s won for three consecutive years. For a year, he wore the rainbow stripes of world champion; at age 20, he was the youngest elite men’s world cyclocross champion the discipline had ever seen.

More recently, he’s worn the white-and-red of World Cup series leader. He currently wears the white-and-blue awarded to the European champion, an honor that supersedes his national tricolor jersey. For better or worse, the purple and red of his title sponsor, Beobank, are rarely seen on his skinsuits these days.

This is not, however, a story about Mathieu Van der Poel’s diverse collection of jerseys. Instead it’s a story about a young man who may just be the most talented bike racer on the planet. Van der Poel’s raw horsepower, uncanny technical skill, and youthful confidence — along with improbable world-class genes — have come together to create an athlete unlike any the sport has ever seen.