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This the official map of instantly’s males’s race.
150km to go
“Is it an April Fool’s joke? Jasper Philipsen requested.
As anticipated, the data that Remco Evenepoel will journey the Tour of Flanders has sparked response from his rivals as that they had been about to start out out Dwars door Vlaanderen.
“It’s a shock for all of us. Nevertheless it’s good news.” Van Aert knowledgeable VTM.
“If Remco begins, I assume he does so with an enormous goal. He’s super strong in one-day races, so positively a rider to watch out for. The Tour of Flanders deserves to have as many huge names firstly as potential.”
No Belgian cobbled Primary worth its salt is lacking in climbs to pepper the route as successfully in any case, and the first of the 12 on this 12 months’s model 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 however nobody is getting out of the peloton’s clutches…when will the break of the day type?
Meantime announcement of 1 DNS: Pinarello-Q36.5’s Frederik Frison, on no account too far out of the movement inside the Belgian Classics, although in DDF he’s not acquired an incredible monitor doc, collectively along with his most interesting placing of 5 fortieth complete remaining 12 months
172 kilometres to go
Most likely a trending matter in Belgium correct now…
And wherever that precise break goes and whoever wins Dwars door Vlaanderen in 5 hours time, that is the big info of the day thus far…Remco Evenepoel will journey the Tour of Flanders in shock debut
As shortly as a result of the flag drops, Spanish Skilled Conti squad Burgos Burpellet BH, doing honour to their debut in Dwars Door Vlaanderen, launch the first assault of the day.
And racing inside the eightieth Dwars door Vlaanderen – A travers la Flandre ME (1.UWT) to current its full title and sophistication is now formally underway
To study a full analysis of what went mistaken remaining time spherical and the way in which Visma plan to put it correct in 2025, that is my colleague James Moultrie’s deep dive into all of it.’We’ll positively not make that exact same mistake as soon as extra’ – 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 earlier historic previous with Dwars door Vlaanderen is a chequered one, to say the least, with the big crash and accidents once more in 2024 adopted by a second place remaining 12 months after Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) managed to beat at the least three Visma-Lease a Bike riders to seize the victory. So there’s a great deal of unfinished enterprise there.
Some bike changes wished inside the neutralised half, along with one for Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Meantime that is one different very atmospheric shot of the sign-on, with Soudal-QuickStep waving to the gang. West Flanders is the heartland for this workers, so expectations might be extreme to see if 2017 and 2018 winner and native hero Yves Lampaert can roll once more the years but yet another time.

The DDV start was buzzing with the will-he/won’t he details about one potential starter in a single different, comparatively bigger, Belgian cobbled Primary, by the way in which during which, Remco Evenepoel’s strongly rumoured start inside the Tour of Flanders subsequent Sunday. Further on that precise story in a short time.
The riders are literally underway inside the neutralised a part of Dwars door Vlaanderen. Kick-off for precise is in about 10 minutes’ time.
For a full analysis of the lads’s and ladies’s prime contenders, look no extra than colleague Laura Weislo’s analysis proper right here:Better than a Tour of Flanders warm-up – Analysing the contenders at Dwars door Vlaanderen
Pretty aside from Wout van Aert and Visma-Lease a Bike, desirous to set the doc straight after their debacle in remaining 12 months’s race, there’s a great deal of curiosity in what Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Premier Tech), the winner of In Flanders Space remaining Sunday, can do, along with Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), once more after skipping Sunday’s race with a cold, whereas sprinter Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Intermarché) stays to be on the hunt for a win of any kind this spring…
Meantime, too, it is a shot of a certain rider on the sign-on who’s producing little bit of media curiosity for some goal…


The race begins in Roeselare in West Flanders, residence each eyar to the Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré one-day race, which was gained by Dylan Groenewegen earlier this spring. Whereas we’re prepared for the start, you’ll have the ability to study the whole report proper right here:GP Jean-Pierre Monseré: Dylan Groenewegen blasts by means of remaining metres and denies breakaway for victory
Racing will start with the roll-out at 1155 CET
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