Christophe Laporte won Dwars door Vlaanderen to make it five wins from the five major cobbled races for Jumbo-Visma. Remarkable, but oddly unremarkable. The rider who really got the heart racing on Wednesday was the one who bounced his bike over the line 15 seconds later: Oier Lazkano.
Laporte's solo victory felt oddly flat - routine, run-of-the-mill - but Lazkano's ride was anything but. A Jumbo-Visma victory is easy to predict but a 23-year-old Movistar rider finishing second - after being in the breakaway all day - will have been on no one's bingo card.
