78th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: February 25, 2023

[Nick2413]

Can’t wait to see how JV fare in PR this year.

 

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Drafting behind a car to come back after a crash or mechanical happens every day and the jury almost never punishes anyone for it.

not in terms of a dsq, but in stage races there are (time) penalties basically every week. That option obviously doesn't really exist in a classic.

And you also need to specify. Normally you see riders getting help to be brought back to the convoy, which usually is tolerated. In this case, the Lotto car is the only one in the picture, so the DS must have passed (and dropped) the whole bunch of other cars with de Lie in his slipstream.

He likely wasn't even allowed to get that far up the road (no other cars visible, which indicates that they weren't allowed to pass the dropped groups yet), let alone with a drafting rider