Dwars door Vlaanderen or À travers la Flandre in original versions.
So, a rehearsal before the Tour of Flanders on Sunday, with this more compact version which gets rid of the first flat 100 km.
Again, this race belongs to the Flanders Classic corporation, so I won't put any graphics here.
PCS profile (missing the cobbles)
Last year was the Visma show, when 3 of them including Van Aert arrived with Powless, and they managed to let the American win. An official 10 mn video summary of the 2025 race
For this year, PCS auto-generated Top competitors are:
- PEDERSEN Mads
- DE LIE Arnaud
- ANDRESEN Tobias Lund
- PHILIPSEN Jasper
- VAN AERT Wout
- MAGNIER Paul
- GRÉGOIRE Romain
- BRENNAN Matthew
- MILAN Jonathan
Pedersen🇩🇰 would apparently come back. Philipsen🇧🇪 just won last classic (from the peloton which caught Van Aert🇧🇪). Magnier🇫🇷 has had more crashes/punctures than good results this year. Grégoire🇫🇷 is not at ease on the cobbles he starts discovering this year. Brennan🇬🇧, I think, is recovering from one of those Visma illnesses. And Milan🇮🇹 looked out of shape last week-end.
The women's version of the race follows the men's. It is very similar, they simply skip 20 km of flat in the beginning, and then there is one loop inside the bergs area that they do only once, instead of twice for the men.
4 Comments
treno_rosso@feddit.org · 2 pts · 145d
Abrahamsen got very consistent results. Could be a podium contender here as well.
CarstenBoll@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 145d
I think he'll be in the mix, sure, but isn't this race usually won by a faster man?
treno_rosso@feddit.org · 1 pts · 144d
It's not a very hard course but in the last years the winner were more classic guys than sprinters. Wouldn't be surprised if Philipsen wins it though.
Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d
Constant suspense in this race, as the multiple breakaways never managed to gain more than 20-25 seconds from the beginning until the end.
FDJ was well seen (almost) all along the race, with several riders : Gruel🇫🇷, maybe Huens🇫🇷, then Grégoire🇫🇷 and even Madouas🇫🇷 for a bit more (yes, his contract ends this year...) than his usual "hi, look at me quickly, I'm on the race, boss". Still no top-10 in the end, though, but the content was good, for once (well, the content on real classics is generally better than what they show on other races like stage races). We could clearly witness the trouble Grégoire🇫🇷 has with cobbles.
Larsen (🇩🇰 Unibet) did well, a pity he cracked in the last uphill false-flat as Van Aert (🇧🇪 Visma) accelerated.
What can be said about Ganna (🇮🇹 Ineos), who suffered so many problems in this race, pulled the peloton, attacked, rode in small breakaways, and in the end still manages to drop F. Vermeersh (🇧🇪 UAE), keep the peloton behind him and take over Van Aert🇧🇪 in the last hectometres!
Pedersen (🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek) still races in the same way, but hasn't got the legs to support his racing style. Still present in the end despite all his earlier efforts, though.
edit: I hadn't noticed, but Ganna🇮🇹 had never won a one-day race before! Two times 2^nd^ in San-Remo, and 3^rd^ last year on E3 were his only podiums.