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• .. 98% of players picked ROGLIČ Primož (Jumbo-Visma) in their team for the final GC. 98%
• .. In 8 out of 17 results this season, EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal - Quick Step) finished in the top-10. 47% 47%
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Results and Highlights from the 2024 Tour of Flanders

The world champion attacked on the Koppenberg and he was no match for the rest of the riders in the Ronde van Vlaanderen.

Grey skies and consistent rain: it must be the Tour of Flanders.

The conditions were fitting for the the second Monument of the season—arguably the best of the bunch. The 2024 Ronde van Vlaanderen brought more thrills as we continue to chug through the best part of the cycling season.

Here’s how both the men’s and women’s races played out at the 2024 Tour of Flanders.

Van der Poel captures record-tying third Flanders victory

Mathieu van der Poel won the 2024 Tour of Flanders, making his definitive move with 43 kilometers to go, and once he did, he left no doubt about it.

It was a vintage cycling scene up the brutal cobbled Koppenberg with 43km to go in the race. It was there that it was all blown apart. Van der Poel laid waste to the rest of the field up the treacherous climb, that gets as steep as 22% at its worst. While many of the riders had to dismount their bikes and try to run up the hill, van der Poel (have you heard he’s a cyclocross star?) stormed ahead. His advantage only grew after that, and it quickly became apparent that it was a race for second.

The world champion and Alpecin-Deceuninck leader solo’d for the last hour of the race. It’s van der Poel’s third win at the Tour of Flanders, tying six others for the most wins in the Momument’s history.

Pedersen tried some interesting tactics to try and steal it from van der Poel. The Ghent-Wevelgem winner from a few weeks ago gapped the peloton with over 86km to go. He was able to establish an advantage over 25 seconds, but was eventually reeled back in before the Paterberg.

Luca Mozzato (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) was a surprise second place, out-sprinting a strong field of riders at the end to grab a podium spot, 1:02 behind van der Poel. Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) was third in the same time with Michael Matthews (Team Jayco-AlUla) relegated.

9 years after her first Flanders victory, Longo Borghini wins for a record second time

While the men’s race lacked drama in the final hour, the women’s race packed a ton of action into the last 45 kilometers, once the riders got on the nasty Koppenberg. In the end, Elisa Longo Borghini sprinted to the win—with the help of a teammate—to win the Tour of Flanders for the second time in her career, nine years after winning the race in 2015.

Longo Borghini won a three rider sprint to the finish over her Lidl-Trek teammate Shirin van Anrooij and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon–SRAM). Van Anrooji provided the leadout for Longo Borghini, who seized the opportunity at the end and out-sprinted Niewiadoma for the victory.

Longo Borghini is the fifth rider to win the Tour of Flanders twice. No rider has ever won three. It was a 1-3 finish for the Lidl-Trek squad to cap off a big day for the team.

The Koppenberg proved to be a pivotal moment in the race. The unbelievably steep climb—made no easier by wet and rainy conditions—claimed many victims. It broke the race apart, with two-time defending champion Lotte Kopecky, as well as her SD Worx-Protime teammate Demi Vollering, among many others losing ground

Those two, along with van Anrooij, were able to make their way back to the lead group. Van Anrooij wasted no time and launched an attack off the front when the chasers rejoined the lead group. From there, she was able to gap the field.

With 12km to go, Longo Borghini and Niewiadoma caught van Anrooij, and the chase group—including Kopecky, Vollering, and Marianne Vos—didn’t have the power to bridge the gap to the three leaders and it set up to be a three-rider race to the finish.

Longo Borghini handled the Koppenberg well, and rode arguably the most consistent race of the other contenders in the race. Surely, that helped her in the end, as she was able to catch van Anrooji for the run into the finish, and sprint to the win.

There was no three-peat for the world champion Kopecky, who won Flanders in 2022 and 2023. Going for a record third win in the classic, she spent much of the latter part of the race chasing down gaps. Vos took fourth, winning the sprint of the best of the rest on the day.

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Volta a Catalunya stage 3: Evenepoel climbs to victory ahead of Roglic atop La Molina

Duo tied on overall time with Roglic holding slim GC lead

World Champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) outduelled Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) to win stage 3 of the Volta a Catalunya at the summit finish of La Molina.

In a GC battle that could not be more finely balanced, Roglič remained the overall leader but tied on time with Evenepoel.

Stage 2 winner Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) was both third on the stage, 13 seconds back, and remained in third overall. But after two mountaintop finishes and with a third, potentially-decisive ascent to come on Friday on the other side of Catalunya, the GC battle already looks to have boiled down to a two-way affair between the riders ahead of him.

Second on stage 1 and third on stage 2, Evenepoel started his quest for victory when he attacked from a 40-strong peloton at 4.5 kilometres to go with a blisteringly-long acceleration.

Roglič easily reached him, then shadowed the Belgian all the way to the finish. But when Evenepoel accelerated away again near the line on a final left-hand bend, Roglič was simply unable to respond. Evenepoel let out a long shout as he crossed the line ahead showing how badly he’d wanted the win.

“I felt better and I had a lot of confidence in my team that they could do the job they did,” Evenepoel said afterwards.

“The climb before La Molina was a long one and a tough one, and we wanted to make it as hard as possible from that climb on, and it paid off.”

Referring to the fact Catalunya's stage 3 is his first win on the road in the rainbow jersey, Evenepoel said, “It’s a pity I’m in the best young rider’s jersey because I would like to have had a picture in my rainbow jersey. Maybe in the next race.

“I showed already in the first days I’m quite fast, on the first day [when Roglič won] I made a mistake because I was too far back when I started the sprint. But now we seen today that I’m fast here, as well.”

How it unfolded

After Tuesday’s first incursion into the mountains, the Volta’s only full day in the Pyrenees this year got off to a fast start and with an impressive-looking break going clear. Headlined by racers of the calibre of Olympic champion and 2019 Giro d’Italia winner Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) and French GC hopeful Guillaume Martin (Cofidis), the break of the day also included Italy’s Simone Petilli (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) for a second day running, Italian National Champion Filippo Zana (Jayco AIUIa), Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny), Niklas Eg (Uno-X Pro Cycling) and Ecuador’s Jefferson Cepeda (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA).

Martin was the best placed of the riders overall, at just 2:51 back on Roglič. But the presence of Carapaz, responsible for upending the overall of the Volta last year in an impressive two-up breakaway with Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe), was arguably the most worrying factor for the GC riders.

After an uneventful ride up the first of three major ascents, the Coubet, Petilli repeated his stage 2 breakaway strategy of claiming maximum points of the day for the mountains classification. Then it was straight on towards the biggest climb, the 18-kilometre hors categorie Coll de la Creueta.

The seven riders ahead began the ascent with an advantage of just under five minutes, but their fate was all but sealed when Evenepoel put all six of his teammates on the front of the pack, headed by fellow-Belgian Pieter Serry. Even so, while Cepeda quickly dropped back from the break on the Creuta, followed by Petilli and Eg, the four remaining riders  -  Carapaz, Zana, Van Gils, and Martin  -  proved a much tougher nut for the peloton to crack.

Soudal-QuickStep’s drive to isolate Roglič as much as possible on the Creueta proved partially successful, leaving the Slovenian with just Sepp Kuss and an uncomfortable-looking Steven Kruijswijk in support with eight kilometres to go to its summit. 

The bunch itself was reduced to just 40 riders half-way on the ascent, sweeping up Cepeda and with former Tour de France winners Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) just two of several top names that lost contact.

Martin led the break through the few remaining winter snow drifts on the highest slopes of the climb and over the summit. Even by the foot of the final ascent, not even the team cars overtook them, as the gap dropped to under a minute seemed to discourage the three riders ahead.

The steepest, lower slopes of Molina saw Ilan Van Wilder stretch out the bunch a little further for his team leader Evenepoel. Carapaz tested his luck at 10 kilometres to go, only Van Gils was able to follow the Olympic champion’s slight but notable increase in speed. Evenepoel, jersey wide open, looked more than focussed as he rode behind the three teammates left with him, but Roglič’s easy shadowing of the Belgian made it hard to read what would happen.

Carapaz finally threw in the towel, and not even a desperate last lunge far ahead by Van Gils could stop the Belgian from being swallowed up by the peloton eight kilometres from the line. 

Then it was up to Van Wilder to string things out one more time in the pack prior to Evenepoel taking off, and Roglič following him almost as quickly.

A brief truce behind saw the duo gain more than a 15-second advantage. Despite one ferocious counter attack by UAE's local rider Mark Soler, the two were still comfortably clear as they powered down a long mid-climb section of descent and into the final corner for their last duel and victory for Evenepoel. 

“Today those two guys were on another level,” João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) said with characteristic clarity at the finish. “The rest of us were all fighting for third.”

The ding-dong battle between Roglič and Evenepoel looks set to ease a little on  Thursday’s transition stage from Llivia to Sabadell, taking the riders south to the outskirts of the Catalan capital of Barcelona, but Friday’s ascent of Lo Port will likely prove to be another story.

“I expect a nice battle,” Evenepoel said afterwards. “We’ll try to save our energy tomorrow and hope that it’ll come down to a sprint, and then we’ll give our maximum. But today we showed we’re a really strong team and we’ll really take responsibility and try and win another stage again.”

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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews , he has also written for The Independent ,  The Guardian ,  ProCycling , The Express and Reuters .

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Adam Yates is one of those riders who often lose time in races against the clock. Just like Richard Carapaz. Yates won the Volta a Catalunya before, while Carapaz finished in second last year. The other two big names on the entry list, Roglic and Evenepoel, did hardly race in Catalonia before. The World Champion never, the Olympic ITT Champion only once – in 2016, his first year as a pro. As they are both expectional time trialists it will be interesting to see how they fare in a race with no time trial.

The battle for the overall triumph on the Volta a Catalunya is expected to come down to the stages 2, 3 and 5, while the hilly criterium race on the last day of action is always compelling, but seldom leads to significant changes on GC.

Stage 2 is likely to open up the first time gaps among GC riders. It’s a mountain station in ski resort Vallter 2000, where Yates emerged victorious on the last two occasions – in 2019 and 2021. The climb to the line is 11 kilometres and the average gradient sits at 7.6%.

While the run-up to the Vallter 2000 climb is not very remarkable, the 3rd stage serves a more compelling first part. The elevation gain during the day sums up to almost 4,000 metres. Yet, the La Molina finish climb is relatively easy – 12.1 kilometres long and averaging 4.3%. Not an ascent for pure mountain goats, but if the form is not good enough, you suffer.

Mountain goats will have it their way in the fifth day of action. Again, the run-up is not very remarkable, but this time the climb to the line is. Mont Caro is a mythical peak within the Lo Port natural reserve. As far as cycling goes, the ascent comes with brutal credentials – 8.4 kilometres at 9%.

The most recent winners of the Volta a Catalunya are Sergio Higuita (2022), Adam Yates (2021) and Miguel Ángel López (2019). The succeeded he now retired trio Alejandro Valverde (2018, 2017, 2009), Nairo Quintana (2016), and Richie Porte (2015).

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***** Primoz Roglic, Remco Evenepoel, Adam Yates **** João Almeida, Richard Carapaz, Mikel Landa *** Gino Mäder, Romain Bardet, Egan Bernal, Giulio Ciccone ** Geraint Thomas, Jai Hindley, Ben O’Connor, Rigoberto Uran * Esteban Chaves, Jack Haig, Michael Woods, Juan Pedro López