Race Report: Dylan van Baarle won the 2023 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The Dutchman of Jumbo-Visma set up a leading group 40 kilometres from the finish, then went solo at the foot of the Muur van Geraardsbergen to finish alone on the Elisabethlaan in Ninove. Arnaud De Lie was second, Christophe Laporte third. The last 15K A strong Dylan van Baarle was uncatchable from the Muur On Saturday morning, the Flemish spring Classic season started in Meerbeke, and the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad got underway. The riders then had to cover 207.3 kilometres, but the final really started at 53 kilometres from the finish, with the Wolvenberg. After there was the iconic duo of the Muur van Geraardsbergen and the Bosberg. From the Bosberg there was only 12 kilometres to the finish in Ninove. In the first hour a leading group of seven escaped: Louis Blouwe (Bingoal WB), Gilles De Wilde, Alex Colman (Flanders Baloise) and two-time Paris-Tours winner Jelle Wallays (Cofidis). They were joined by the Canadian Adam de Vos (Human Powered Health), Mathis Le Berre (Arkéa-Samsic) and Mathias Norsgaard (Movistar). Christopher Juul-Jensen (Jayco AlUla), also tried to cross, but was trapped between break and peloton. The track in Gent was packed for the pre-race presentation Probably Peter Sagan’s last Omloop The attackers gained a lead of more than 8 minutes on the peloton, where BORA-hansgrohe, Groupama-FDJ and Jumbo-Visma did the work. There was also a crash involving Michael Schär (AG2R Citroën) and Ben Turner (INEOS Grenadiers), with some others. […]
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