Maybe Tom was thinking of this: Photo by Tim De Waele/Getty Images But even Tom Boonen, one of the nicer megastars of recent cycling vintage, was a bit disapproving of the move, saying Wout may regret it. Recriminations came from the usual old heads who couldn’t imagine such a chivalrous gesture - if anyone even tried asking Roger De Vlaeminck what he thought, I hope they did so from a safe distance. There was a fair bit of chatter this week after Jumbo’s Wout Van Aert, Belgium’s top classics star, allowed his French teammate Christophe Laporte to take the win from a two-teammate breakaway at Gent-Wevelgem. Let’s look at a few from the old course today, and a few more from the new course tomorrow. Bike racing in Russia 100 years ago was LIT.Īnyway, the purpose of this post is to dredge up some old lessons about famous attacks at the Ronde van Vlaanderen as a way to think about this Sunday’s race. I’m talking about cycling! Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images Naw, man, that’s When Animals Attack!, a super dumb American TV show from the 14th century. So assuming the team chefs are on their game, then let us turn to the past. But that won’t help us this week, not at least without knowing who may be putting their Ronde dreams in jeopardy by eating bad pasta. Well, and my puttanesca is pretty nailed down too. These days I think what I do best is recall past editions of the Tour of Flanders.
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