The race is back for its 51st edition, taking place between 8-12 April.<\/p>\n
Five stages, 806 kilometers, 25 classified climbs and many more unranked ones \u2013 the Circuit des Ardennes will be one of the most demanding races of the spring. Its terrain is ideal for the attackers, who\u2019ll get plenty of opportunities to make the difference. Of the five days, the one that stands out is the penultimate, featuring eight ascents and an elevation gain of 3500 meters \u2013 a relentless course where the general classification can be won or lost.<\/p>\n
Winner of three races this season, including the Tour of Antalya general classification, Henrique Bravo will be one of our six riders at the start of the Circuit des Ardennes. Tour du Rwanda stage victor Matthijs De Clercq, Hodei Mu\u00f1oz, Gauthier Servranckx, Viktor Soenens, who finished eighth overall here at the previous edition, and Stan Van Tricht will join the Brazilian climber on Soudal Quick-Step Devo\u2019s roster for the French race.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go with a strong team to what will be an important race for us. The opening stage and the fourth one suit Henrique and he can do some nice things there. Viktor can also get a good result on the general classification, while Hodei is our guy for the stages that should come down to a bunch sprint. Finally, we also have Stan, who is an excellent road captain and can guide the younger guys\u201d, said sports director Eliot Lietaer.<\/p>\n
Photo credit: \u00a9Dario Belingheri \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race is back for its 51st edition, taking place between 8-12 April. Five stages, 806 kilometers, 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-581427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581427","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=581427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}