{"id":575486,"date":"2026-04-01T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:27:09","slug":"filippo-ganna-sympathises-with-van-aert-after-fresh-heartbreak-wout-was-outstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575486\/","title":{"rendered":"Filippo Ganna sympathises with Van Aert after fresh heartbreak: \u201cWout was outstanding\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cycling fans were once again treated to a brilliant finale in Dwars door Vlaanderen<\/a>. Once again, Wout van Aert<\/a> lit up the race, and the Visma | Lease a Bike rider even looked to be on his way to victory, only to be overhauled by Filippo Ganna<\/a> in the final straight. It was heartbreaking for the Flemish fans, but the Italian of INEOS Grenadiers<\/a> fully deserved the win as well.For a long time, it actually looked as though Ganna would not feature in the finale at all. He was left standing at the roadside multiple times with mechanical problems. \u201cIt was an impressive effort,\u201d Ganna said afterwards in his flash interview<\/a>. \u201cI had a bit of bad luck all day. In the first part, after the first climb, I broke my front wheel and had to change bikes, then I broke my handlebar and had to change again. I hope I used up all my bad luck today.\u201d<\/p>\n

With 40 kilometres to go, just as Van Aert accelerated on the Eikenberg, things went wrong for the Italian once again. But he managed to return. \u201cMagnus was up the road, so I had to ease off a little there. In Gent I already felt good, and there I tried to help my team-mates. Today the team worked brilliantly for me, I had incredible support. I tried to give something back, and I managed that with this beautiful victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read on below the video!<\/p>\n

Ganna on Van Aert: \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to come back on him\u201dThe winner also had sympathy for Van Aert, who finished second and fell just short of victory in Waregem for the second year in a row. \u201cWout was outstanding, it was a tremendous performance,\u201d said Ganna, who only came past the Belgian<\/a> in the final 100 metres. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to come back on him, but my legs held on all the way to the line. It\u2019s a great victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a long time, the gap seemed impossible to close, so when did Ganna begin to believe he could still do it? \u201cMaybe in the final corner,\u201d he laughed. \u201cThe group behind us came back very quickly, but I\u2019m very happy. It\u2019s a nice boost for the team for the races to come.\u201d For the time trial specialist himself, it was his first victory in a one-day race outside the discipline of the clock. \u201cIt\u2019s one of my biggest wins, especially in the university of cycling. It\u2019s really something special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cycling fans were once again treated to a brilliant finale in Dwars door Vlaanderen. Once again, Wout van…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,137253,74722,59639,82,12290],"class_list":["post-575486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-dwars-door-vlaanderen","tag-filippo-ganna","tag-ineos-grenadiers","tag-sports","tag-wout-van-aert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575486","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=575486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}