76th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: February 27, 2021

[Bonimenier]

These millennials might not like it, but it'll always be Het Volk.

These boomers might not like it, but it'll always be Omloop van Vlaanderen.

 

[BlueRoads]

5 stars: Pedersen, Alaphilippe
4 stars: everyone else on DQS except Tim, van Avermaet, Wellens

The others I'd consider all outsiders.

Love your list, toby.

@will-10, millennials? what makes you think we're not generation z?

 

[tobydawq]

So is David Dekker, and Nizzolo.

And Lutsenko. Bissegger and Rowe. But that was hardly my point.

 

[RedheadDane]

And Lutsenko. Bissegger and Rowe. But that was hardly my point.

Well, I was replying to Yaco, pointing out that quite a few on the list is otherwise occupied.

 

[wansteadimp]

Prediction: Steppers will send 3 or 4 riders out in the early break. forcing the teams who missed the break to chase and still have Alaphilippe to nuke it on the Muur if they get caught by the peloton.

Prediction: Steppers will send 3 or 4 riders out in the early break. forcing the teams who missed the break to chase and still have Alaphilippe Stannard nuke it on the Muur if they get caught by the peloton. fify - shame he retired.

 

[tobydawq]

Well, I was replying to Yaco, pointing out that quite a few on the list is otherwise occupied.

I know, I just saw an opportunity to discredit you.

Okay, I'll stop with the "like competition" nonsense now (for a while at least).

 

[Wvv]

Let's say in Flanders we call it either "Het Volk" (but less and less) or "den Omloop". I prefer the latter, since that's really the core title of the race that survived these name changes.

For those who wonder: Het Volk was a newspaper, but it was sold to the more successful Het Nieuwsblad (which also owns 'Sportwereld', the sports magazine founded by the same guy who brought the Ronde van Vlaanderen to life) and went up in it a few years later. Hence the last name change.

It's incredible really how newspapers affected cycling and its biggest races the past 120 years. For instance: the Tour de France is strongly connected to L'Equipe (formerly L'Auto), so is the Giro d'Italia to La Gazzetta. They both chose the colours of their leaders jerseys (yellow and pink) referring to the colours of the paper their organizing media was printed on.

 

[sir fly]

Let's say in Flanders we call it either "Het Volk" (but less and less) or "den Omloop". I prefer the latter, since that's really the core title of the race that survived these name changes.

For those who wonder: Het Volk was a newspaper, but it was sold to the more successful Het Nieuwsblad (which also owns 'Sportwereld', the sports magazine founded by the same guy who brought the Ronde van Vlaanderen to life) and went up in it a few years later. Hence the last name change.

It's incredible really how newspapers affected cycling and its biggest races the past 120 years. For instance: the Tour de France is strongly connected to L'Equipe (formerly L'Auto), so is the Giro d'Italia to La Gazzetta. They both chose the colours of their leaders jerseys (yellow and pink) referring to the colours of the paper their organizing media was printed on.

That was a dominant advertising model at the time. The newspapers were the only media.
Cycling was the most attractive sport for the matter. And the bicycle was, pretty much, the only vehicle available to ordinary people.
So, there really wasn't some other option to get things going.
As time went on, the model developed to be copied everywhere around.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Cycling was also great for the print media, because they could effectively make a lot of things up to create better races, when no one had watched them in their entirety. You couldn't do it the same way in football for instance (they did do it in radio broadcasts though).

 

[WKA311]

Johan Jacobs and Florian Vermeersch are two of the biggest upcoming classic talents and I think they could spring very nice results this weekend and the following weeks. The same goes for Jonas Rutsch who could've had a breakthrough result already last year, if he would've been able to get out of a jacket. He'll probably be limited by team duties for Keukeleire/Langeveld but Jacobs will be free to do what he wants and Vermeersch could already be on a similar level to Wellens/Gilbert in the smaller classics.

 

[Poursuivant]

Stannard to come out of retirement and outsprint the entire DQS squad

 

[postmanhat]

Going in to work early tomorrow, so I can get home asap. The only other day I do that is Christmas Eve, which this very much feels like

From a purely parochial point of view, everyone in The UK will be interested in seeing if Pidcock can make an impact during the classics season. But I'm almost as curious to see how Ethan Hayter handles the cobbles. Here's hoping they can make up for the absence of Stannard

 

[topcat]

Alaphillipe to win obviously and everyone to rave about Pidcock's 13th place.

 

[RedheadDane]

Stannard to come out of retirement and outsprint the entire DQS squad

Stannard will indeed outsprint the entire DQS squad! But it'll be Robert.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUcXoBmL4I&feature=emb_logo

 

[Devil's Elbow]

From a purely parochial point of view, everyone in The UK will be interested in seeing if Pidcock can make an impact during the classics season. But I'm almost as curious to see how Ethan Hayter handles the cobbles. Here's hoping they can make up for the absence of Stannard

Wouldn't be surprised at all to see Stewart do better than either of them tbh.

 

[Publiuszam]

Will it be available online? Links?

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Alaphillipe to win obviously and everyone to rave about Pidcock's 13th place.

.....and how Remco would have won this race by 10 minutes if he had ridden it.

 

[tobydawq]

.....and how Remco would have won this race by 10 minutes if he had ridden it.

There will always be an asterisk next to the winner of a race when it isn't Remco.

 

[fuiers]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUcXoBmL4I&feature=emb_logo

This is the kind of content I wanna see.

 

[SafeBet]

A staff member from ISN returned a positive test so Boivin and Hollenstein won't start.

 

[Velolover2]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUcXoBmL4I&feature=emb_logo

One of the great things about being is cyclist is supporting the local bakery on the road.

 

[TomLPC]

Coverage starts and De Clerq is on the front

The more things change

Edit: and there is forum favourite, Sep Vanmarcke, in his usual spot of chasing back amongst the cars, now the season has started

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Vanmarcke crashing is a real surprise.

 

[fuiers]

So GVA and Vanmarcke already down