Daily Times April 5, 2021 OUDENAARDE: Denmark’s Kasper Asgreen claimed the biggest victory of his career when he beat pre-race favourite Mathieu van der Poel to win the Tour of Flanders on Sunday. Deceuninck-Quick Step rider Asgreen pipped defending champion Van der Poel of the Netherlands in a two-man sprint finish after 254.3 kilometres between Antwerp and Oudenaarde. “I felt good in the last two kilometres and I decided to trust my sprint. I left Mathieu in front and stayed in the wheel and decided when I wanted to go,” said Asgreen, the first Dane to win the race since Rolf Sorensen 24 years ago. “It was a really, really hard race, we were both on the limit.” The Tour of Flanders is the second of five Monuments, the major one-day races of the elite calendar.