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2020 Tour of Flanders, Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing - October 20, 2020

A silent Ronde: The sights and sounds of a crowd-free Tour of Flanders

It’s Monday morning and I am sat behind my computer figuring out how to write a piece about nothing. The idea was to share the emptiness of the Tour of Flanders; a Tour of Flanders without crowds. But it was far from empty, at least on television. Did you miss the people on the Paterberg …

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A photographer’s view of the best race of the year

Six months late and raced in an autumnal gloom, the most anticipated Monument of the season (RIP Paris-Roubaix 2020) was run and won on the cobbles of Flanders. It was a characteristically scintillating spectacle, even without the hordes of Leffe-crazed roadside fans that normally define the Ronde van Vlaanderen. The first race to get rolling …

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Chantal van den Broek-Blaak wins Tour of Flanders with solo attack

Boels Dolmans continued their winning ways with Chantal van den Broek-Blaak at the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Van den Broek-Blaak made her move after the Oude Kwaremont and before the Paterberg, and was able to ride alone to the finish to take her first Ronde van Vlaanderen. As the chase group got farther away from the …

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Mathieu van der Poel wins Tour of Flanders after duel with rival Wout van Aert

Mathieu van der Poel won the Tour of Flanders after a long, two-up fight with his longtime rival Wout van Aert. It came down to a sprint, and down to less than a wheel length, between two riders with battles that stretch back to cyclocross courses and look set to continue long into the future. …

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Preview: Your guide to the 2020 women’s Tour of Flanders

It feels like the season only started yesterday yet here we are, at the final one-day races of the year. Sunday’s penultimate one-day race on the Women’s WorldTour calendar is not just your standard single-day event — it’s the event: the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Flanders is everything that makes cycling exciting. Cobbles, climbs, weather, chaos. …

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A silent Ronde: The sights and sounds of a crowd-free Tour of Flanders

A photographer’s view of the best race of the year

Chantal van den Broek-Blaak wins Tour of Flanders with solo attack

Mathieu van der Poel wins Tour of Flanders after duel with rival Wout van Aert

Preview: Your guide to the 2020 women’s Tour of Flanders

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