Greig Leach

You can read a lot about what is happening in the race just by the shape of the peloton. In this case, the long thin line, complete with small gaps, shows that this group is giving everything it has to chase down the leaders. On the previous climb, many of the favorites had escaped, but not all. So those that didn't were doing everything they could to set matters to rights. They were lucky that the winds had kept down on the flats of Flanders as they raced through the fields left fallow in the late winter months.