In the Belgian semi-classic, the riders were presented with a challenging 195-kilometre course. After the early breakaway was reeled in early on, the men of Team Visma | Lease a Bike opened up the race. Menno Huising initiated the action at sixty kilometers from the finish, and Wilco Kelderman subsequently responded to an attack by Leander Van Hautegem.<\/p>\n
The two built up a decent lead, after which Kelderman went on alone. The Dutchman, who was riding his first race since his crash in the second stage of the Giro d\u2019Italia, held on for a long time, but was reeled in seventeen kilometers from the finish. Louis Barr\u00e9 made a last-ditch attempt to break away on the final climb, but was unable to find any space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the Belgian semi-classic, the riders were presented with a challenging 195-kilometre course. After the early breakaway was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,352750,784,352751,85,352749],"class_list":["post-728426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-but-saw-his-effort-end-seventeen-kilometers-from-the-finish-in-the-sprint-from-a-reduced-peloton","tag-cycling","tag-matthew-brennan-sprinted-to-fourteenth-place","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike-was-unable-to-cap-off-an-attacking-ride-with-a-top-finish-in-the-circuit-franco-belge-wilco-kelderman-spent-more-than-forty-kilometers-on-the-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728426","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=728426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}