“It feels a bit surreal. This is the biggest win of my career by far" - Soren Waerenskjold stuns to take surprise Omloop Het Nieuwsblad victory
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Soren Waerenskjold has taken the biggest victory of his career to date! The Norwegian powerhouse of Uno-X Mobility stunned the likes of Jasper Philipsen and Wout van Aert among others to take victory at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2025 from a reduced sprint.
“I actually shouldn’t have raced until Sunday,” admitted a disbelieving Waerenskjold in his post-race interview, completely stunned by what he had just managed to do. "Tomorrow it will be more of a sprint race, but today it also became a sprint due to the headwind."
“It feels a bit surreal. I have no words for this, but I am very happy with this victory. This is the biggest win of my career, by far, especially with all these big names in the peloton. This is a big step for me in the right direction,” adds the Norwegian proudly. “I didn’t think this was possible, but it worked out. I was behind a fall on the Molenberg. I then tried to close the gap, but didn’t have the legs. That’s why I tried to save as much energy as possible. I also tried not to go all out on the climbs, but in the end I still had to go almost all out. The pace was so fast. It was tough, but I had the legs to do a good sprint in the end.”
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The last kilometer of the Men Elite race. 🏁
— Omloop Nieuwsblad (@OmloopHNB) March 1, 2025
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- So drunk Belgians will always target MvDP because they are drunk. That can't be right. If drunk Belgians target all other cyclist equally, then it may be reasonable.
KerisVroom14-04-2025 - Nobody cares about this nonsense.
Front24214-04-2025 - Thanks! Hadn’t heard of that word so would have been hard to search very specifically without your input.Mistermaumau14-04-2025
- Ok, that’s this year’s gold medal for classy comments :-)Mistermaumau14-04-2025
- of course it’s predictable. a dad is proud of his son. nothing else matters, and his dad was a celebrated rider in his own right. maybe if people respected the human side of this story, and these people, we would see fewer bidons thrown. lastly as a dad, I appreciate this. a dad should have be given grief for showing pride and love for his child. we need more dads and examples like Adriemij14-04-2025
- i willfully CHOOSE to believe in your theory about greatness being sharpened and driven by greatness, because in my ideal world that’s how i’d wish it to be. in this case, with mathieu in particular, i think the presence of first wout then tadej absolutely drives and consumes him to some degree. he’s a guy who admittedly gets BORED. and when mathieu gets bored he just goes and does something else. he’s very clear about the fact there are a BUNCH of things he just doesn’t really care about, and i think anyone who follows him has a sense that MVDP is here for a GOOD TIME, not a LONG TIME. my hope is that tadej’s greatness will keep mathieu focused and hungry. very sadly, wout no longer fills that role. he may again and i hope he does, but their career trajectories are going in different directions and have been for a few years now. i will be extremely sad for the truly SPECTACULAR van aert if his line MSR win is the only monument trophy on his mantle. at very least i want ONE roubaix cobblestone sitting next to it. he deserves to tell the story when the grandkids ask “why is there a big rock sitting up there, papa?”OCexile14-04-2025
- Why? He is being too hard on himself. No sane person will blame him if he stopped there and then.KerisVroom14-04-2025
- You can find a quick explantion by searching for "finish line camera howtown". The camera only captures the vertical line. The photo that we see is a composite of vertical lines.KerisVroom14-04-2025
- Let us not go off the deep end for a start it us not attempted murder. At most common assault. Country dependent. Yes horrible to see and ob not a real fan of the sport or just a VDP hater. This has been going on for years look at Froome in the TDF and other sports such as football. That is soccer to the North Americans. Let the police do there job and hope the offender gets what is coming to him or even her.paultryan200214-04-2025