Greig Leach

Coming out of the Forest of Arenberg Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) had a flat tire which dropped him out of the front group. And then again, while coming out to another section of pave he had another flat. At least this time he was able to catch back up to this chase group containing his teammate, Nathan Van Hooydonck along with Sjoerd Bax (UAE Team Emirates), Florian Vermeersch (Lotto Dstny), and Gianni Vermeersch (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Both of the Jumbo-Visma guys were desperate to catch back up to the front group to help out their guy Wout Van Aert. They had the problem of towing Gianni back up to his two teammates without doing any of the work to get there. Spoiler, they never got there. Jumbo-Visma was using an automatic inflation system in their tires, but it didn’t seem to be helping at all. In fact, Van Aert suffered a flat near the finale which cost him the chance to vie for the win.