Julian Alaphilippe headed Quick Step's Tour de France team announced on Tuesday.

Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen snatched victory in the third stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, edging Wout van Aert on the line although the Belgian retained the overall race leader's yellow jersey.

Belgian Yves Lampaert won the first stage of the Tour de France on Friday, gate-crashing the opening day individual time-trial as crowds defied the rain along the 13.2km route in downtown Copenhagen.

Biniam Girmay of Eritrea won the prestigious Gent Wevelgem classic on Sunday, becoming the first sub-Saharan cyclist to win a one-day classic.

The Belgian monument, de Ronde van Vlaanderen, better known as the Tour of Flanders, takes place on Sunday, April 4th as the Classics season soon comes to a close. 

The second round of the Flanders Classics arrives this Sunday with Gent-Wevelgem. More fireworks are sure to come after Davide Ballerini upset the favorites at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

The 2021 Dwars Door Vlaanderen returns on Wednesday, March 31st, after its cancellation last season. The mid-week race bridges the gap between Gent-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders, serving as one final tuneup for the main event of the Flanders Classics.  

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is the kickoff weekend for the spring classics, specifically the cobbled classics. At 200 kilometers long, Omloop is not as big a day in the saddle for the men as the Tour of Flanders, but Omloop asserts itself on the calendar in ways other than distance. 

The spring classics kick off Saturday, February 27th with a strong field of cobbled specialists headlining the men's field at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. 

Belgian Champion Yves Lampaert begins the "serious" part of his season starting with the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on February 29. The race kicks off a string of one-day Cobbled Classics, ending with Paris-Roubaix in April.