The last hurrah

The view from inside the peloton

All eyes were on the Belgian team as the World Championships descended on Flanders. A week after Wout van Aert and Remco Evenepoel stood either side of Filippo Ganna (who else?) on the time-trial podium, the same duo was part of the home team widely expected to put on a show in the road race. Unfortunately for them, the French team refused to stick to the script.

Once his teammates had made the hilly race as hard as possible,