It's easy to get lost watching the favourites at the Tour of Flanders. So many giants of the sport turn up and are, little by little, sloughed off the front group in an attritional meat grinder of a race.
Sunday's headlines will be grabbed by Tadej Pogačar, Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert, and the Lidl-Trek double act of Mads Petersen and Jasper Stuyven, but spare a thought though, once you've digested the results at the top of the billing, for Colby Simmons, for whom the 269km Monument wasn't just his longest-ever race, but his longest-ever ride full stop.
