Cycling-Kristoff produces monumental ride to win Flanders title (Reuters)
Norwegian Alexander Kristoff continued his maturation into a top classics rider when he outpowered and outsmarted his rivals to win the Tour of Flanders on Sunday. The Katusha rider, runner-up in Milan-San Remo last month, beat Dutchman Niki Terpstra in a two-man sprint after following the Etixx-Quick Step rider’s attack 25 km from the finish of the 264.2km slog from Bruges. Belgian Greg van Avermaet of BMC took third place ahead of Tinkoff-Saxo’s Slovakian rider Peter Sagan. Kristoff, 28, added the Tour of Flanders crown to the Milan-San Remo title he won last year — his first win on one of the five ‘Monument’ one-day races.