{"id":520068,"date":"2026-03-05T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:11:11","slug":"are-the-outcomes-of-the-spring-classics-inevitable-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520068\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Outcomes of the Spring Classics Inevitable This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/byline\/velo-com\" data-outbound-instanced=\"true\" class=\"flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\" aria-label=\"View The VELO Team&#039;s bio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The VELO Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published March 4, 2026 03:28AM<\/p>\n<p>Opening weekend in Flanders saw chaos, carnage, and the inevitable, with Omloop first-timer <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/sublime-season-start-van-der-poel-omloop-nieuwsblad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mathieu van der\u00a0Poel taking a dominating win<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/vollering-overpowers-niewiadoma-omloop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Demi Vollering showing some impressive early-season strength<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This episode of the Velo podcast has European editor and race correspondent Andrew Hood breaking down all the action from Belgium and answering Levy\u2019s questions about how to stop MvdP\u2019s dominance at the classics, why there were so many huge crashes, and when a podium feels like a victory.<\/p>\n<p>Hoody and Levy also get into the action from Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, where <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/brennan-kuurne-kool-hageland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">20-year-old Matthew Brennan\u2019s dominating sprint form has finally given Visma-Lease a Bike some good news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also preview this weekend\u2019s Strade Bianche and weigh in on the chances of anyone beating Tadej Poga\u010dar for his fourth win on the white roads, something that Tom Pidcock and Paul Seixas will be doing their best to prevent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The VELO Team Published March 4, 2026 03:28AM Opening weekend in Flanders saw chaos, carnage, and the inevitable,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,68224,85,259578,140709,67883],"class_list":["post-520068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-omloop-het-nieuwsblad","tag-tag-velo-podcast","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}