Flanders Classics organise free beer ‘Happy Hour’ to rejoice twentieth version of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Women

This weekend marks the twentieth version of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Women race and to rejoice, race organiser Flanders Classics will supply free beer in an ‘open bar’ Happy Hour throughout the ladies’s sign-on and presentation.

The workforce presentation is held contained in the well-known ‘t Kuipke velodrome in Gent, with DJ pumping out Belgian digital dance music underneath disco lights. There is a celebration environment regardless of the Saturday morning time slot and Flanders Classics have executed a take care of Belgian beer model Maes Pils for the ‘Happy Hour’ throughout the ladies’s workforce presentation in ‘t Kuipke between 11:30 to 12:30. 

“We are celebrating a jubilee,” Flanders Classics CEO Van Den Spiegel mentioned. 

“With our ‘Closing The Gap’ venture, now we have been backing ladies’s biking lately, along with our presenting associate, ladies KPMG and all our different companions.

“So, we’re delighted to lift a glass to toast the event of the ladies’s race, and there’s no higher time to take action than on the twentieth version of the ‘opening Classic’.” 

Maes will even mark the landmark version by releasing restricted version paintings on its beer cans in addition to a “homage to the game of biking”, within the type of a limited-edition ingesting glass.

Racing for the twentieth version of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Women will get underway at 13:20 native time in Gent, some two hours after the boys depart from the identical location for his or her 197km race. The ladies’s race is scheduled to complete an hour after the boys’s race.

Saturday’s race has attracted a bunch of big-name rider of the ladies’s peloton for the 138km race from Gent to Ninove. 

They embody Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram Zondacrypto), Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic-PostNL), and Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek).

After beginning within the ‘t Kuipke velodrome in Gent, the ladies tackle eight cobbled sectors and eight categorized hills alongside the best way – together with the Wolvenberg, Moleberg, Leberg, Muur van Geraardsbergen, and Bosberg – earlier than ending in Ninove.