Omloop Het Nieuwsblad women LIVE – Another surprise or is the season’s opening cobbled Classic one for the favourites?

While the men will be racing Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne tomorrow, the second race of the women’s Opening Weekend is the Fenix-Ekoi Omloop van het Haageland.

There’s always a huge sense of occasion at this first Belgian race of the year, and it has one of the best team presentations of them all, at the legendary T’Kuipke velodrome in Gent.

We’ve had a few races in Australia and around southern Europe, but today’s race is part of the Flemish Opening Weekend, when Belgium hosts the first cobbled races and the time many see as the real start to the season.