Seven Takeaways Before Flanders: Arguably the best race on the cycling calendar – The Tour of Flanders – is this Sunday. Spencer Martin gives us his ‘Seven Takeaways’ from Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Volta a Catalunya. Bring on de Ronde!– This article is an excerpt from the Beyond the Peloton newsletter. Sign up here for full access. –Watch the most comprehensive live & ad-free coverage of the Tour of Flanders 2022 on GCN+. Go deeper and get interactive with live polls & quizzes, plus rider profiles, race updates, results & more plus stream original and exclusive cycling documentaries. Watch it all with GCN+ on any device.‘Vlaanderens Mooiste callsThe week between Gent-Wevelgem and the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) is always a sacred week in professional cycling, but this year it has seemed to sparkle more than usual due to the emergence of an African one-day classics star in Biniam Girmay, the unlikely return of Mathieu van der Poel, Jumbo-Vismas uneven performance as a Classics superteam and the presence of the sports biggest grand tour star, Tadej Pogaar, at its biggest one-day races.To sum up what weve learned over the last few cobbled classics (plus a one-week stage race) and recap before the big one on Sunday, Ive laid out seven major takeaways from the past week.Biniam Girmay – The big winner in Wevelgem, but not riding Flanders on SundaySeven Takeaways1) Biniam Girmay and Intermarch have crashed the gateBiniam Girmay, only 21-year-old, made history when he upset the…
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