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Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) won Gent-Wevelgem after a dominant display from his Dutch super team in sodden conditions. The 34-year-old stormed clear on the penultimate ascent of the Kemmelberg alongside team-mate Wout van Aert. And the pair stayed away – holding a near two-minute advantage over the chasing pack into Wevelgem – in an astonishing show of dominance.
Wout van Aert will have to “come in fighting” after Jumbo-Visma produced a tactical masterclass in his absence at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Eurosport expert Dani Rowe has claimed. Dylan van Baarle conjured a superb solo victory after dismissing his fellow breakaway acts one after another, with Christophe Laporte later parking himself in a chase group, ready to pounce if his team-mate unravelled.
Before the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2023 rolled out of a cold humid Ghent this morning, the opening bout of Opening Weekend had been billed as the most open edition in years. In the absence of Wout van Aert, and his life-long rival Mathieu van der Poel, the bookies certainly had no idea. The odds they were offering were all over the place.
In Wollongong on Sunday Remco Evenepoel became the youngest World Champion in 29 years and the first rider to win a monument, a grand tour and the world road race since Bernard Hinault in 1980. The 22 year-old did it first by getting team-mates in the break, then slipping away from the peloton to join them in the final third of the race, before going on the attack himself with exactly two laps left. Ad He rode on for ten kilometres in the company of Alexey Lutsenko, but going solo on the penultimate ascent of Mount Keira.
SYDNEY :Remco Evenepoel concluded a magnificent season with a solo breakaway to win the world road race title on Sunday, adding the rainbow jersey to his triumphs in the Vuelta a Espana and the Liege–Bastogne–Liege monument classic.
Olav Kooij earned his second stage win in three days at the Tour of Denmark on Thursday, as Jumbo-Visma earned a 1-2 in Stage 3 after Christophe Laporte came second in a bunch sprint. Magnus Cort of EF Education-EasyPost came over the line in third, with Jhonattan Narvaez (INEOS Grenadiers) and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) completing the top five.
Wednesday saw the Tour of Denmark individual time trial race return in the second stage of the five-stage race, which Magnus Sheffield won in sensational fashion. The American Ineos Grenadiers rider smashed the field to win his first professional time trial race, and clinch his third victory in an impressive debut season, following a powerful display in Assens. Ad Sheffield crossed the line in 13 minutes, 35 seconds after the 12.2km race which started and ended in Assens, and endured a nervous wait to see if anyone could better his time.
Christophe Laporte says «it's always the same» as he and his Jumbo-Visma team respond to insinuations of doping following their dominant performance at the Tour de France. Jonas Vingegaard took home the yellow jersey for the Dutch team by some distance over Tadej Pogacar following a series of supreme mountain displays, while Wout Van Aert landed the green jersey and three stage wins.