Bunny-hopping Lucinda Brand ends CX season with a win before Niels Vandeputte takes dominant men's victory at Waaslandcross Sint-Niklaas
Cyclocross
Lucinda Brand and Niels Vandeputte have taken the win at Waaslandcross Sint-Niklaas, emerging victorious in their respective Exact Cross outings this Saturday afternoon in Belgium.
Brand might be viewed as one of the elder stateswomen of cyclocross, aged 35, but the Dutchwoman proved she is still more than young enough to learn new tricks in Sint-Niklaas, hopping the barriers repeatedly throughout the race, something Brand has never really done before in her illustrious career. It proved very beneficial too as the World Championship runner-up fought of competition from the likes of Crelan - Corendon duo Sara Casasola and Inge van der Heijden to emerge victorious in her final outing of this winter.
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Men's Race
In the men's race, it was all about one man. Alpecin-Deceuninck's, Niels Vandeputte, who attacked clear early and was already over 30 seconds clear of the chasing pack after just three laps of racing. In a performance reminiscent of his all-conquering teammate Mathieu van der Poel, Vandeputte was an absolutely dominant winner.
In the end, the battle for the rest of the podium places was much more exciting. Ultimately though, second place went to Lars van der Haar, with former European champion Michael Vanthourenhout securing third spot.
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Esto no se lo había visto a Brand. Saltar el tablón, aunque no sea muy elevado. Lucinda no deja de mejorar cosas y de ahí su nivel este año#ExactCross pic.twitter.com/eqyB1yrmn3
— elsterrato (@elsterrato) February 15, 2025
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- Gaio Primus Caesar Roglus, Rome is waiting for you, Imperator :-)).
maria2024202431-03-2025 - And he probably wasn’t even at the limit ;-) Have to wonder how much Mads could catch up if he’d tune his physique to be as sharp as MVDPs’Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Respect for giving Van Eetvelt credit there.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- He’s already a star for me for HAVING complained about it, the recent trend having been, let them then try to take advantage by making them sign NDAs ;-)Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Agreed, but if it was a radio thing then all the riders should have the same story and it would be easy to call anyone out. Kind of surprised this isn’t cleared up half officially afterwards, just like the Alaphilippe divorce, seems like once something spreads on the net it kind of gets accepted that everyone wants to have their own truth so no-one bothers to contest anything that’s verifiable anymore, we all just move on.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- maybe. what makes that a LITTLE fishy is that they suddenly hit the gas and started hammering it. even mathieu, who i’ve never heard complain about ANYTHING (other than teenage girls waking him up and being spit on by belgians) was pretty hacked off about the race tactics after the split. i think he was upset for what his teammates had to do, not for the fact he ended up isolated as a result.OCexile31-03-2025
- It seems that in E3 it wasn’t legit to criticise teams that « took advantage » because there was no radio communication about the incident so they couldn’t know to slow down. Only one source so far but should be quite easy to verify.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- mads SMOKED it at ghent! love that guy. he’s just the best interview ever, always smart and hilarious and with a biting intolerance for stupidity. happy for him. just as a secondary thought, consider that mvdp beat THAT version of mads by a full minute at E3 two days ago. the gap between pog/mvdp and even tho other GREAT riders like mads is kinda staggering to comprehend. this is a time in cycling history that’s certainly worth paying attention to while it lasts.OCexile31-03-2025
- i watched the race. jasper and roodhooft have a legit anger about this. alpecin burned everyone to pull it back. they did the SAME THING after the split in E3, burning all their guys and thus leaving mathieu to fend for himself (which worked out ok because van der poel is van der poel, but still…). yeah, christopher and jasper should be a little pissed this time.OCexile30-03-2025
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