Dwars door Vlaanderen Men Live – a year on from 2025 disaster, can Wout van Aert and Visma set the record straight?

This the official map of immediately’s males’s race.

150km to go

After 35km of racing and few assaults, the peloton remains to be collectively. Maybe the Hellestraat climb that is available in 10km will spark the primary main assault.

“Is it an April Idiot’s joke? Jasper Philipsen requested.

“I sort of noticed it coming. These rumours had been already circulating a while in the past. It’s good for the group and the race. Remco is a contender, alongside Pogacar and Van der Poel.”

As anticipated, the information that Remco Evenepoel will journey the Tour of Flanders has sparked response from his rivals as they had been about to start out Dwars door Vlaanderen.

Some riders appeared to already jknow the information, others, together with Wout Van Aert welcomed him.

“It’s a shock for all of us. However it’s excellent news.” Van Aert informed VTM.

“If Remco begins, I assume he does so with a giant aim. He’s tremendous robust in one-day races, so definitely a rider to be careful for. The Tour of Flanders deserves to have as many massive names firstly as potential.”

No Belgian cobbled Basic value its salt is missing in climbs to pepper the route as effectively after all, and the primary of the 12 on this 12 months’s version of Dwars door Vlaanderen is the Hellestraat (1.3 km à 3.7%) at km 47.8 of the 184.6 kilometres that make up this 12 months’s race.

We’re 15 kilometres into DDV 2026 and as but no one is getting out of the peloton’s clutches…when will the break of the day kind?

Meantime announcement of 1 DNS: Pinarello-Q36.5’s Frederik Frison, by no means too far out of the motion within the Belgian Classics, though in DDF he is not acquired an amazing monitor document, together with his finest putting of 5 fortieth total final 12 months

172 kilometres to go

Peloton is all collectively for now

Probably a trending matter in Belgium proper now…

And wherever that exact break goes and whoever wins Dwars door Vlaanderen in 5 hours time, this is the large information of the day to date…Remco Evenepoel will journey the Tour of Flanders in shock debut

As quickly because the flag drops, Spanish Professional Conti squad Burgos Burpellet BH, doing honour to their debut in Dwars Door Vlaanderen, launch the primary assault of the day.

And racing within the eightieth Dwars door Vlaanderen – A travers la Flandre ME (1.UWT) to present its full title and class is now formally underway

To learn a full evaluation of what went mistaken final time spherical and the way Visma plan to place it proper in 2025, this is my colleague James Moultrie’s deep dive into all of it.’We’ll definitely not make that very same mistake once more’ – Can Wout van Aert and Visma take revenge at Dwars door Vlaanderen a 12 months on from three-against-one tactical blunder?

Van Aert’s previous historical past with Dwars door Vlaanderen is a chequered one, to say the least, with the large crash and accidents again in 2024 adopted by a second place final 12 months after Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost) managed to beat at least three Visma-Lease a Bike riders to grab the victory. So there’s loads of unfinished enterprise there.

Some bike adjustments wanted within the neutralised part, together with one for Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike)

Meantime this is one other very atmospheric shot of the sign-on, with Soudal-QuickStep waving to the gang. West Flanders is the heartland for this staff, so expectations can be excessive to see if 2017 and 2018 winner and native hero Yves Lampaert can roll again the years yet one more time.

The DDV begin was buzzing with the will-he/will not he information about one potential starter in one other, relatively larger, Belgian cobbled Basic, by the way in which, Remco Evenepoel’s strongly rumoured begin within the Tour of Flanders subsequent Sunday. Extra on that exact story very quickly.

The riders are actually underway within the neutralised part of Dwars door Vlaanderen. Kick-off for actual is in about 10 minutes’ time.

For a full evaluation of the lads’s and girls’s prime contenders, look no additional than colleague Laura Weislo’s evaluation right here:Greater than a Tour of Flanders warm-up – Analysing the contenders at Dwars door Vlaanderen

Fairly other than Wout van Aert and Visma-Lease a Bike, eager to set the document straight after their debacle in final 12 months’s race, there’s loads of curiosity in what Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Premier Tech), the winner of In Flanders Area final Sunday, can do, together with Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), again after skipping Sunday’s race with a chilly, whereas sprinter Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Intermarché) remains to be on the hunt for a win of any type this spring…

Meantime, too, this is a shot of a sure rider on the sign-on who’s producing a good bit of media curiosity for some purpose…

The race begins in Roeselare in West Flanders, residence every eyar to the Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré one-day race, which was gained by Dylan Groenewegen earlier this spring. Whereas we’re ready for the beginning, you’ll be able to learn the complete report right here:GP Jean-Pierre Monseré: Dylan Groenewegen blasts by way of remaining metres and denies breakaway for victory

Racing will begin with the roll-out at 1155 CET