The Friday cycling quiz: Opening Weekend
It's all eyes on Belgium this weekend as the peloton hits the cobbles of Flanders to kick off the classics
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No matter how much everyone has been enjoying the warm sunshine of the early season stage races around the world, what everyone has really been waiting for is the start of the classics. As of this coming weekend attention turns away from the sun drenched tarmac of the middle east and southern Europe and shifts to northern Europe where narrow roads, cobbles and Belgian Toothpaste are the order of the day.
March and April is classics season, and the majority of the biggest races in this period take place in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. Opening Weekend sees the double header of Omloop Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne and the first real sign of how the classics are going to shape up.
So today's quiz tests your knowledge of these classic races, where, despite the usual rain and single digit temperatures, Belgian cycling fans will be out in force. Hup hup!
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Editor of Cycling Weekly magazine, Simon has been working at the title since 2001. He first fell in love with cycling in 1989 when watching the Tour de France on Channel 4, started racing in 1995 and in 2000 he spent one season racing in Belgium. During his time at CW (and Cycle Sport magazine) he has written product reviews, fitness features, pro interviews, race coverage and news. He has covered the Tour de France more times than he can remember along with the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and many other international and UK domestic races. He became the 134-year-old magazine's 13th editor in 2015 and can still be seen riding bikes around the lanes of Surrey, Sussex and Kent. Albeit a bit slower than before.
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