‘You can’t just sit and scroll TikTok’ – How Matthew Brennan is mentally preparing to lead in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad after teammate Wout van Aert falls sick

When Matthew Brennan was asked in Visma-Lease a Bike’s pre-Omloop press conference on Thursday what he had taken away from last year’s edition of the same race, he remarked that the biggest learning point for him in 2025 had not been so much what happened on the bike as off it.

“Most races are very similar, and normally I wouldn’t be doing a press conference, for example. But in a race like this, there are more things like that that begin to eat into your day,” he explained.