Greig Leach

It should come as a surprise to no one that with all of the rain last night and during the race today large puddles formed along the course. Just before the entrance to Section 23, the Artres a Querenaing, the railroad crossing had helped to form a huge deep puddle at the start of the cobblestones. First Florian Vermeersch (Lotto Soudal) and then Nils Eekhoff (DSM) road through unable to see their feet nor almost the hubs of their wheels. Fortunately there wasn’t any potholes hidden beneath the surface of the small pond. Fortunately, they and the rest of the peloton got through the slough without more than muddy soaking wet feet.