French cyclist Christophe Laporte withdraws from Tour of Flanders. The 31-year-old has “insufficiently recovered from a stomach flu and pain in the saddle’ Wout Van Aert will have to do without his luxury teammate to try to win the Tour.
The Belgian leader in Visma-lease a bike, Wout van Aert, is the current leader in the race. The Tour is the second Monument of the year after Milan-San Remo.