Mid-Week Check-In: Five Takeaways From Dwars door Vlaanderen

What we learned from Wednesday's pre-Flanders Cobbled Classics

Jumbo-Visma’s stranglehold on the sport of cycling continued today at the pre-Flanders warmup race of Dwars door Vlaanderen. Christophe Laporte, fresh off a win at Sunday’s Gent-Wevelgem, rode clear inside the final 5km with a textbook counter-attack to get his second WorldTour Classics victory in the past week, while Movistar’s Oier Lazkano put in an a…