When a dangerous move pushed clear with around 50km to go at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Tom Pidcock looked to be ideally positioned in a race that he had entered “strong and fit” after a top five in 2023. There were, however, still a number of twists in the script to play out before the final curtain was drawn in Ninove.
A move by Matteo Jorgenson (Jumbo-Visma) on the Wolvenberg whittled down the numbers at the front of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad even further, resulting in a powerful group of six at the head of the race, including Pidcock, Jorgenson’s teammates Wout Van Aert and Christophe Laporte, Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Dstny) and Toms Skuijns (Lidl-Trek).
