The Classics

[RobynE 🚵‍♀️]

Pogi takes it an easy 1min25 ahead of Ciccione and Healy 

[Eugene Oppelt]

Ben Healy’s first podium in the Classics after several 4th positions. 
Lidl-Trek had a great spring season with Cicconi finish on the podium to cap off a very consistent team performance. What dominance by team UAE and its champion racer, ending off Spring racing with a breakaway win in the way he started it at Strade Bianche.

Gotta love the Spring Classics. Completely dominated by the rainbow jersey. Pogačar will now reset and prepare for the biggest annual sporting event in the world.

Edited Sunday at 03:29 PM by Eugene Oppelt

[Eugene Oppelt]

LBL, Women:

Kim le Court, she weeps. What a fantastic breakout victory for the former mountain biker.

pic @UCI_cycling

Edited Sunday at 04:58 PM by Eugene Oppelt

[Rowl]

Fantastic well done Kim!

[betaboy]

Pog is making light work of these classics, he breaks away and no one responds…. I was hoping this race wound be a cracker. Pity the weather wasn’t bad to turn it upside down. Oh well, let’s see the Giro, there is a certain Aussie I think will do well, maybe even be in pink… if you watched the Tour of the Alps then you can stay. ✅👍🏻😜

[babse]

1 hour ago, Eugene Oppelt said:

LBL, Women:

Kim le Court, she weeps. What a fantastic breakout victory for the former mountain biker.

pic @UCI_cycling

What a result!!! 

[Chumi]

It’s been a great classics season. Pogi is the best gift to cycling methinks. 

[Eugene Oppelt]

About Kimberley le Court:

Born in 1996 to a Scottish father and Mauritian mother. Her husband helped her to write many e-mails in late 2024 to WorldTour teams hoping for an opportunity. Natascha den Ouden, then manager of AG Insurance-Soudal, showed interest and Kim has demonstrated her capabilities since then with many top 10 finishes. 

After nearly 3 months of being away from home, she fights back on a hilly finalè and finishes top of the podium at Liege’. Most athletes would’ve been one foot on the plane back to Africa, tired from a cold and wet Europe, I reckon. Kim, however, had the grit and legs to cap off her spring racing with this breakout victory. 

First Mauritian in the WoldTour, far away from home, winning against the rainbow jersey, the ever-threatening Vollering and other top performers.
Special stuff.

She’s heading back to the north for the Tour of UK and the Tour de France Avec Zwift (did I get that title right?).

Pic @roleurcc

Edited Tuesday at 02:03 PM by Eugene Oppelt

[NGM]

35 minutes ago, Eugene Oppelt said:

About Kimberley le Court:

Born in 1996 to a Scottish father and Mauritian mother.

Other way round I'd imagine.