2015<\/a>, whose finishing sprint was similar to the burgeoning star. Brennan avoided the Cavendish comparison after the race.<\/p>\n\u201cI won twice as a junior myself,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m always there in these kind of races.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second-tier ProTeam outfit Tudor had a pair of riders on the podium as the Italians Luca Mozzato and Matteo Trentin came second and third.<\/p>\n
This was the second race of the Flemish opening weekend raced in clement weather over 193.6km and 13 hills and whose culminating 60km were winding but almost entirely flat. Around three dozen riders played cat-and-mouse over the final 2km or so as teams jockeyed for position, Visma and Quick-Step featuring strongly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous all day and we got caught in a gap but we took the initiative and I\u2019m really happy,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cThe guys, each and every one of them, worked in the build up. I did the easy bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
None of the pre-race favourites got a sniff with outgoing champion Jasper Philipsen, Jonathan Milan and Paul Magnier out of the picture altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 20-year-old British sprinter Matthew Brennan rocketed out of an accelerating pack to win the Flemish classic Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-508422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}