Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2026, February 28

[Rob5091]

is there an update on de Lie injury?

No injury apparently -
https://www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cyc...edition-the-most-dangerous-omloop-of-my-life/

Lotto-Intermarché were banking on a result from Arnaud De Lie and worked most of the day to keep him in contention, but a single moment knocked him out of the race.

"This was the most dangerous Omloop of my life," De Lie told Sporza.be after the race. "There was a huge amount of nervousness in the peloton, especially with this wind.

"Initially, it was actually a perfect day for me. OK, it was impossible to follow Mathieu on the Molenberg, but after that, I was up there with the best. Only five kilometres from the Muur, someone fell next to me, and I broke my wheel. That was the end of the story."

 

[KoopaCycling]

I still think Van Aert was given a gift by falling ill this time around.
He'd have been unlucky enough to crash hard.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Best of the Rest (order topping the Muur) :-

Laporte
Abrahamsen
Trentin
Teuns
Pithie
Turgis
Lund And
Magnier
Berckmoes
M Kopecky

 

[harrybo]

what you call the big lad that always appers at the finish line, he was spuffin a bit tring to keep up with vollering yesterday, he always been a cool dude.
also good to see Luc out with a new board too

 

[Oldman]

Nope, never have. You? Yeah, I think domination is dull. Still enjoy watching, but I want to see a battle.

Yes, and constantly chasing, being cold and tense was more of the memory than I enjoy recalling. That became the battle and the strongest stayed at the front pretty much like this race. Early season races can suck as half the field is fighting for a place on the team as well as the pack. Always stoopid crashes.

 

[Oldman]

Actually on screen it looked a little dull and the race favorite never really was bothered. Yet, for the racers it surely was nothing but dull. These cobbled one day classics on narrow twisting wet roads are the absolute pinnacle of adrenaline boosters.

My appreciation is for the doms and riders whose job is dragging their protected riders back to good pack position. Then you have to fight up the hills and around the cars. Stressful acts in a slow-burn death that don't show up on the screen.

 

[proffate]

Love this headline from the mis-translation machine that is Cycling-uptodate,

> “He wasn’t allowed to work with Mathieu” – Red Bull - BORA master tactics secure Tim van Dijke podium at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

So brilliant, right up there with "keep the rubber side down" and "remember to eat"