Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields 2025

[Poursuivant]

Jorgensen quiet so far.

 

[titan31]

I agree he's the guy just below the superhumans, but you still have to be unbelievably strong to hold an organized peloton back for 40kms straight. Even with Van der Poel the gap wasn't that big anymore int he end (or maybe I remember it incorrectly).

How organised is that peloton though? Most teams don't have numbers there and the ones that do don't have a sprinter

 

[Samamba]

How organised is that peloton though? Most teams don't have numbers there and the ones that do don't have a sprinter

We'll see after last Kemmel. There's still a lot teams with a sprinter.

 

[Netserk]

Benoot should drill Baneberg when they get to it.

 

[Kazistuta]

Legendary strategy by Brunel to totally tire himself out before the kemelberg

Probably forgot a road race trick or two while doing gravel...

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

Legendary strategy by Brunel to totally tire himself out before the kemelberg

Same actually by Campenaerts and Livyns, who took pulls in the lead group (or in Campenaerts case, try to wake the lion in Pedersen).
I will never ever understand those guys working with Pedersen before the Kemmel / trying to force it on Kemmel where they have a big chance getting dropped.

 

[titan31]

We'll see after last Kemmel. There's still a lot teams with a sprinter.

If you're a team with a sprinter than isn't Philipsen or Merlier though, why work. You kind of leave it to them and see what they do for the most part so Pedersen is only really racing those teams for a good 30km

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Campaenaerts spent all that time wheelsucking just to do nothing

 

[Samamba]

Same actually by Campenaerts and Livyns, who took pulls in the lead group.
I will never ever understand those guys working with Pedersen before the Kemmel where they have a big chance getting dropped.

Livyns did maybe 1 pull after plugstreets. Campenaerts also only on the Kemmel itself (which maybe wasn't smart but still).

 

[Salvarani]

Pedersen has this

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Patterson lost his mind there in the corner

 

[Ilmaestro99]

How is haller all day in the break and stronger than the 2 belgians

 

[danielzu]

Astana still with 4 guys in that group

 

[tobydawq]

Patterson lost his mind there in the corner

Patterson?

 

[Samamba]

Race would've been over if Kooij and/or Philipsen didn't have bad luck

 

[tobydawq]

Pedersen > Van Den Bossche

 

[Salvarani]

Patterson?

American translation

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Just one guy doing work in the peloton.....

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Does nobody wants to win this race?

 

[Mayomaniac]

How is haller all day in the break and stronger than the 2 belgians

Haller has always been a hard man among the sprinters. Beat Van Aert in Bremen cycleclassics in 2022, has multiple Paris-Roubaix top 20s and 1 E3 top 10. That Ice Hockey background...

 

[Salvarani]

Does nobody wants to win this race?

Only Patterson

 

[Netserk]

Does nobody wants to win this race?

Doms are always saved at this point to have them after Kemmel.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Some agricultural tactics being employed by the bunch, they’re playing with fire a rider of Pattersons calibre up front.

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

Does nobody wants to win this race?

The whole peloton is banking on Alpecin / Soudal QS to work after Kemmel.
But from previous editions, we all know that no one is going to bring this back, for sure not with a tail wind.

 

[tobydawq]

If I wasn't hoping Patterson would win, I would be infuriated watching this race.