79th Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre ME (1.UWT) April 2nd 2025

[Netserk]

Strong break has been established:

115 KM

The chasers bridged the gap towards the breakaway: 8 leaders!
🇳🇱 Taco van der Hoorn (Intermarché)
🇨🇭 Fabio Christen (Q36.5)
🇨🇿 Petr Kelemen (Tudor)
🇬🇧 Joshua Giddings (Lotto)
🇩🇰 Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen (Decathlon)
🇧🇪 Ceriel Desal (Wagner)
🇬🇧 Lewis Askey (Groupama)
🇩🇰 Mikkel Bjerg (UAE)

Peloton at 45".

 

[Netserk]

With the headwind after Knokteberg/Trieu, Berg Ten Houte will need to be ridden hard both times. Soon coming up.

 

[Samamba]

Milan was dropped already apparently

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Wonder if Kristoff will make it up to the break

 

[Netserk]

Pedersen, Merlier, Philipsen, Jorgenson, Tarling near the front.

 

[Netserk]

Milan was dropped already apparently

Taped up behind his left knee.

 

[Potomac]

Can we just call this race The Traverse?

 

[topcat]

Kristoff is not Eric Vanderaerden. He fails to bridge to the breakaway.

 

[Boehmand]

If he really races today, then yes.

If he stays calm, then no.

Leaning more to yes since he never takes it easy.

He wouldn't start to just use it as training - it's not in his DNA.

 

[Netserk]

Hagenes and Van der Sande keeping Jorgenson in position for Trieu, Van Aert further back with Affini.

 

[tobydawq]

Wout in position!

 

[Samamba]

Visma going full

 

[Samamba]

Van Aert a full on domestique now

 

[Heston]

Van Aert sacrificing himself for Jorgenson?

 

[E_F_]

Søjberg is "giving" 2018 in his Danish champs' jersey these days.

 

[topcat]

Visma killed Ineos

 

[Didinho]

Making the race hard to drop the sprinters.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Van Aert in domestique mode 90+ kilometers before the finish, so that's what's to be expected of him on Sunday. Sad.

 

[Lequack]

Wout is alive! This is good to see for Sunday.

 

[E_F_]

Can we make Woutismo a thing now? #FreeWout

 

[tobydawq]

Van Aert in domestique mode 90+ kilometers before the finish, so that's what's to be expected of him on Sunday. Sad.

He paced up a climb, he's hardly fetching bottles.

 

[Netserk]

Hard with the headwind now.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

He paced up a climb, he's hardly fetching bottles.

Well domestique does not only and always mean you gotta go fetch the bottles, but pacing the race 90+ k before the race is not a leaders job is it?

 

[Netserk]

It's blasting off!

 

[Didinho]

Pedersen 🤝🏻 headwind