It had to be the day of Wouts. At least, Van Aert had come up with that himself. In the week that the cycling fever in Flanders flares up old-fashioned to unprecedented temperatures because Sunday the 109th edition of the famous round appears, the Flemish leader of Visma-Lease A Bike wanted to prove that he is again working on the world during the general rehearsal in Dwars through Flanders. He shot himself in the foot and at the same time scored his team.

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