{"id":378200,"date":"2026-04-06T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/378200\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:16:11","slug":"clara-copponi-storms-to-victory-at-ronde-de-mouscron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/378200\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Copponi storms to victory at Ronde de Mouscron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                A dialled Lidl-Trek leadout launched Clara to victory at the Belgian one day race\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body\">Just 45 kilometres southwest of Oudenaarde \u2013 where the Ronde van Vlaanderen had finished 24 hours earlier \u2013 lies Mouscron, tucked into Wallonie on the Belgian-French border. As cycling fans managed the comedown from De Ronde, they were handed one more spectacle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lidl-Trek lined up with five riders, all fresh having not raced the day prior, and lead by French sprinter Clara Copponi. Roadside crowds enjoyed a rare treat: five passages of the peloton over a repeated 25km circuit, 125km in total. Several riders tried to attack throughout the race, including repeated attempts by Lidl-Trek\u2019s Margot Vanpachtenbeke and Loes Adegeest. However, in the end, the peloton nullified all escape attempts. Lidl-Trek prepared for the sprint, positioning Copponi with a formidable sprint train. The French sprinter emerged into the wind in the final two hundred metres, surging ahead on the slight uphill to take a clear victory, and enough time to recreate her iconic victory pose from the Schwalbe Classic in Australia last year.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lidl-Trek-Ronde-de-Mouscron-1-scaled-1600x0-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    In Clara\u2019s words\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI felt good in the last races, and here I had my chance and I was able to finish off the work of the team. We really wanted a hard race and I think we did it. We all had a chance and all played our part well. In the last lap, I trusted my teammates and they did a great job getting me in position and then I had a nice sprint. The victory feels good personally, and also for the team because we have not had many this year. In any case, it\u2019s a race in the middle of all the big races, like Flanders, where my teammates had a great race. I hope the victory will motivate the team for more success to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lidl-Trek-Ronde-de-Mouscron-4-scaled-1600x0-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dialled Lidl-Trek leadout launched Clara to victory at the Belgian one day race Just 45 kilometres southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-378200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}