Tour of Flanders: World champion Julian Alaphilippe crashes as Mathieu van der Poel wins
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/54592334 BBC, 18 October 2020 Julian Alaphilippe (back left) led the 2019 Tour de France for 14 stages World champion Julian Alaphilippe crashed out after hitting a motorbike as Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel won at the Tour of Flanders. Alaphilippe, 28, was part of what would become the winning breakaway, when he hit a race motorbike 35km from the finish of the 243km one-day epic. That left Van der Poel, 25, and Belgium's Wout van Aert, 26, to battle it out at the finish in Oudenaarde. And Van der Poel edged it on the line, with Alexander Kristoff coming third. The pair started their sprint at the same time and Alpecin-Fenix rider Van der Poel just managed to hold off his Jumbo Visma rival Van Aert. It is his first win in one of cycling's Monuments - the five most prestigious one-day races - and comes 34 years after his father Adri won the race. It also ended Van Aert's hopes of becoming the first rider to win the Tour of Flanders a...