In normal circumstances you’d be sitting down to watch the Tour of Flanders this weekend. Lots of people are still out riding but I’m in a higher risk category so I’m really trying to be good. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organized by Flanders Classics. Reinhardt Janse Van Rensburg has attacked and he gets something like a meaningful gap, and Toms Skujins and a rider from Lotto Soudal have bridged over. Slideshow 1/15. The break has rolled over the Lippenhovestraat and the Paddestraat, the peloton is about eight minutes still in arrears. (1.UWT) 2020 ». Published 18/10/2020 at 14:23 GMT | Updated 18/10/2020 at 14:23 GMT Gregor Muhlberger suffered an embarrassing but heavy fall at the Tour of Flanders on Sunday. Flanders is a must visit area for cycling. 240-odd kilometres and it came down to a question of centimetres. Van Aert waited until 200m to go with the chasers thundering up behind them. The race started in Antwerp and finished in Oudenaarde, Belgium, covering a distance of 241 km. The 104th edition of the Tour of Flanders one-day cycling classic was held on 18 October 2020, as the 20th event of the 2020 UCI World Tour. This time it's his countryman Julian Alaphilippe who forges clear. Wout Van Aert comes into the race today as favourite and as far as threats to his ambitions go, he will be most worried about Mathieu van der Poel. 2020 Tour of Flanders postponed. The Belgian Jumbo Visma rider was not the only one involved, Tim Wellens was also brought down. The world champion has hit the deck after colliding with a race motorbike. The rain has abated but the wet roads are causing more chaos. As they reach the summit of the Oude Kwaremont, the peloton come hammering up on the heels of the break, led by riders from Ineos, Bora and a first sighting near the front of Mathieu van der Poel. No serious damage seems to have been done. Last week's Gent-Wevelgem worked out poorly for both of them, whereas now they are all but assured of the win. The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as De Ronde ("The Tour"), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. You can watch the entire race for £6.99 (monthly subscription), while an annual pass is £39.99. Might this move stick? The Oude Kwaremont features three times today and will be the race's penultimate climb. Just a small gap for the moment and I'm sure the peloton will do everything in its power to bring them back. Wout Van Aert digs deep and is trying furiously to bridge before it's too late. It's raining and people have started attacking off the peloton. 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Flanders has its bergs, and they come one after another without mercy. The organisers have chopped around 30km off the route, but it’s still as hard as ever, I don’t see the change having an impact on the race. Some riders have ridden through the tape, and the race is all of a sudden back on. Distance: 267km. From Gent, it is approximately 1 hour to reach Antwerp where we will see the riders prepare for the race start. Feel free to send in additional sources for live video, tv coverage or text updates/tickers as they become known. The 2014 champion was Fabian Cancellara; he was not able to defend his title after breaking two vertebrae in a crash at E3 … And then, just when things quieten down, Gregor Muhlberger contrives to crash himself out by throwing a musette to the side of the road and accidentally catching his handlebar in the process. Tour of Flanders 2020: The Route Sunday 18 October - The High Mass of Flemish cycling amounts to 244 kilometres. Live updates of the men's Tour of Flanders classic, otherwise known as the Ronde van Vlaanderen, one of cycling's five one-day Monuments. It's going to be absolutely brutal until the end now. And welcome to the live blog for the nobbliest, wobbliest, cobbliest classic of them all! Tour of Flanders 2021. Well this is enthralling stuff. Looming soon is the killer combo of the Oude Kwaremont, the Koppenerg and the Paterberg in close succession. At the moment it's only Adrien Petit who can stay with him. Van Aert has crossed the gap, now it's him, Alaphilippe and van der Poel in the lead with a gap of about 14 seconds. Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands won the race, just ahead of Belgian Wout van Aert. Wout Van Aert of Belgium and Team Team Jumbo - Visma / Mathieu Van Der Poel of The Netherlands and Team Alpecin-Fenix / during the 104th Tour of Flanders 2020 - Ronde van Vlaanderen - Men Elite a 243,3km race, Pedersen overhauls elite field to win Gent-Wevelgem, Van Aert and Van der Poel will fight it out for Tour of Flanders win – Gilbert, ‘Van Aert is big favourite for Flanders… if he can avoid shadow boxing with Van der Poel’ - Plugge. Ronde Van Vlaanderen The men's event was slightly reduced in distance, because of the unprecedented end-of-season slot and in order to deal with the intense October campaign. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been spending a lot more time on my indoor trainer since we entered the Covid-19 era. There is no day that true cycling fans yearn for more than the first Sunday in April (postponed to October). As the peloton rumbles through his home town of Lede, the Belgian sprinter riding for Israel StartUp Nation pulls to the side of the road and gives his wife and kids a kiss and a cuddle. They have a gap to the chasers, and they are probably the last two guys you'd want to allow up the road. That is not something many riders get to do in a monument, so good for him. Most riders have gloves plus leg and arm warmers on and there's a chilly mist hanging low over the roads. The race is one of the cobbled classics and is the second of the cycling monuments on the 2015 calendar. They're just a few moments away from the Koppenberg. It looks absolutely perishing out there on the Belgian roads. He has a teammate in the breakaway, remember, but he has seven minutes to try and bridge solo before he reaches him. Daniel Oss is the latest to need a wheel change. How are teams juggling the intense 2020 cycling calendar? The Tour of Flanders weekend is a fantastic celebration of our sport by one of the most passionate cycling loving regions on earth. And the chasing groups have all coalesced with the leading duo. The former winner of this race, one of only three on the start line today, takes the final podium spot. But they're losing time to the lead pair. That's not ideal at this point in the day. Along with only four other races, the Tour of Flanders is considered a cycling monument and is often grouped together with Paris-Roubaix as the most prestigious one day race a cyclist can add to their palmarès. The attacks have settled and once more it's Trek-Segafredo leading the peloton. Emblematic of the race are seventeen (cobbled) climbs and five flat stretches of pavé. — ProCyclingStats.com (@ProCyclingStats) March 12, 2020 The Ronde pro races draw huge crowds to the start and finish lines as well as to the key sections of the route throughout the day. 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