Arnaud De Lie diagnosed with Lyme disease after pulling out of Spring Classics

Antibodies for disease found in Belgian rider’s blood

Arnaud De Lie
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Promising Belgian Classics star Arnaud De Lie has been diagnosed with Lyme disease and will miss the rest of the Spring Classics. 

The Lotto Dstny rider had been struggling for form since the season began, and a recent update from the Belgian team said that the 22-year-old would take some time to reset ahead of the second half of the season. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.