Today on the agenda: Ghent - Wevelgem, one of the Belgian Spring Classics leading up to the Tour of Flanders next week.

Ghent - Wevelgem is changing from a 'normal' Spring Classics into a race with a message: Flanders Fields. The route meanders around all Great War Monuments. New, the so-called 'Plugstreets' or in Dutch 'Ploegsteert'. The village name of Ploegsteert is unpronounceable for non-Dutch speaking people. Lots of Commonwealth graves near Ploegsteert and therefore called 'Plugstreets'. The roads are the same as during the WW1: sand and pebbles - sort of Strada Bianchi.

With less than 35kms to go: Sagan and Van Avermaat in the lead!

Menno