For a time, it looked like the men's In Flanders Fields finale was going to be pure cinema, a much longed-for head-to-head fight between Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech), a pair whose rivalry goes back 20 years.
It's a battle we've been deprived of for some time, with the duo not directly sparring for the win in a Classic for three years now, and everyone's mouths were watering at the possibility of an all-out sprint between the two in Wevelgem.
