Lotto Soudal is leading the bunch and giving it beans at the moment. The chasers in no man’s land are 30 seconds back. Iljo Keisse is pulling the bunch along and the gap has fallen to 54 seconds.
Postlberger attacks from the second group on the road. Van der Poel is leading the chase behind. Meanwhile, Benoot attacks from the peloton with Jungels. They quickly sweep up the Van der Poel group. Oliveira and Postlberger have just 15 seconds on the chasers with the peloton a further 10 seconds back.
Plenty of action still at the front of the peloton. Postlberger on his own now and Oliveira has been passed by the chasing group. Up front, Postlberger has been caught by Benoot, Jungels et al. The leaders hit the Varentstraat sector of cobbles. This leading group of five, followed by the reduced peloton. They have just a small gap as others try to bridge across. The peloton is thinning out with each move. They’re building their lead at this point and now have 38 seconds on the peloton. Oliveira is in that move with Moscon and they have bridged up to Demare. They have a very small gap on the peloton behind. A very good sign of her form heading into the weekend. Still around 40 riders in the peloton, including some pretty fast men. The peloton is in single file under the high pace being set. It’s going to be a tough ask for them to catch the leaders at this point. No games yet, they want to keep this peloton at bay. Ordinarily, these two teams would be helping, but they have no reason to now.
They pull out a gap as they meet each other at the top. He stays upright, though, as he rides through the grass. Turgis had to go really deep and overcooked a corner. They still have 47 seconds on the peloton. However, Jungels is doing a large chunk of the work. The leaders reach the final sector of cobbles, but it’s all calm at the moment. Benoot and Jungels will likely need to attack if they want to win. Van der Poel has a good kick in him too but he’s done so much work today. Postlberger and Turgis have decent sprints, but they will have to hang on to the fast pace being set by the others. These five should have more than enough to fight it out between themselves. Still all together Who will be the first to blink? They’re waiting, expecting an attack to come.
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