What have we learned over the last week?
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A whistle-stop tour of the last week in cycling, taking one lesson from each of the countries that’ve hosted men’s cycling.
In Belgium we learned that an armchair ride matters
I suppose that we didn’t really learn that. We also didn’t really see that. Still, it is worth a quick look at how each of the Belgian races was won, and how fresh the winner was, comparatively. Davide Ballerini spent much of the day in the front selection being well looked-after by Stybar and Alaphilippe (who served as both a super-domestique and a hare up the road, which is quite the performance) before being beautifully led out for a dominating win at Omloop.