Flanders Around was on Sunday held in an abbreviated and virtual version, that got Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) as the winner.
The belgian forårsløb was scheduled to be held for 104. time on Sunday, but due to the immediate coronakrise is cykelklassikeren been postponed indefinitely.
Organizers, however, had scored 13 riders to make the start in a virtual race, where the riders on the so-called hometrainers in their own home had to complete the last 30 kilometers of the route.
the Participants passed among other race two final climbs, the Oude-Kwaremont and Paterberg.
Just on the Paterberg founded the Greg Van Avermaet Sunday’s victory.
At the finish line was the belgian distanced Oliver Bruhat (AG2R) by 20 seconds and Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) with the additional a second.
In connection with the virtual cycling told the organizer Tomas Van Den Spiegel, that he still hopes to run the tour of Flanders Round or Ronde van Vlaanderen as it is called in flemish, in 2020.
“Our goal remains to arrange the ‘De Ronde’ later in the year. It is all agreed.”
“But right now it’s all some hypothetical discussions, because we do not know when the crisis ends,” says Tomas Van Den Spiegel, according to the AFP to the tv station VRT.
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