Dwars door Vlaanderen is not going to make the bounce as much as the Girls’s WorldTour after the UCI denied its utility for a top-tier licence for 2023.
The one-day race will stay on the ProSeries calendar, at the very least for one more yr, and is scheduled to happen on the identical day as the lads’s occasion on March 29 in Waregem.
“Now we have submitted an utility to be a part of the WorldTour, similar to with the lads’s race, however we’ve not but succeeded earlier than 2023. In fact, we expect that is a disgrace, however we simply have to just accept it,” Nele Dewaele of the organising committee instructed the Belgian press at an occasion presentation on Monday.
Flanders Classics presently oversees six of the preferred Spring Classics; Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Tour of Flanders, Scheldeprijs and Brabantse Pijl.
The organisation’s progressive initiative, Closing the Hole, has dedicated to a four-year technique that goals to create equality throughout all six ladies’s and males’s Spring Classics in three foremost areas: reside TV protection, classification on the worldwide calendar and prize cash.
Tour of Flanders and Gent-Wevelgem are staples on the Girls’s WorldTour calendar, and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad will be a part of them as a part of the highest tier of occasions beginning in 2023.
As for the three remaining ladies’s one-day occasions, Dwars door Vlaanderen and Brabantse Pijl, they are going to keep as a part of the ProSeries calendar, and Scheldeprijs will probably be a 1.1-level occasion.
Subsequent March will mark the eleventh version of the ladies’s Dwars door Vlaanderen and the peloton will deal with a 115km route with the ladies scheduled to finish their race after the lads. The route will embody Volkegemberg, Berg Ten Houte, Kanarieberg, Knokteberg, Hotond, Ladeuze, Nokereberg and Nokere, together with seven cobblestone sectors.
Earlier winners embody defending champion Chiara Consonni, Annemiek van Vleuten, Lotta Henttala , Kirsten Wild and Monique van de Ree who gained the inaugural version in 2012. Winners of a number of editions embody Ellen van Dijk, who has gained twice, and Amy Pieters, who gained 3 times.
“Now we have already acquired quite a few requests from WorldTour groups, so the sphere of individuals should be good. It will be good to have a Belgian rider because the winner. The Dutch have dominated thus far, with eight out of ten victories,” Dewaele stated.
Dwars door Vlaanderen is held simply forward of the Tour of Flanders and alongside lots of the identical roads. Jolien D’hoore expects the occasion to as soon as once more be an indicator of what to anticipate on April 2.
”This race is an actual measure of worth for what follows on Sunday with the Tour of Flanders. It’s a actual mini Tour of Flanders. It’s a respectable race and a really troublesome race, which each rider desires to have on her finest,” D’hoore stated.
