Videos of the day: Freddy's Ghent-Wevelgems
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While we're on the theme of being 'much more than a sprinter', here's a bit of an hors-d'oeuvre for Sunday's upcoming Gand-Wevelgem , wielersuppporters : Freddy Maertens slaying the greatest in 1975 and 1976. Yesterday we woke to a light snow dusting here in Rhode Island. Winter is going out kicking and screaming. A scheduled hour and a half of power intervals shifted indoors on the trainer for me though, so deduct 10 flahute points from my season total. Suffering a-bloc inside still counts though, doesn't it? The Gent-Wevelgem1975 race (short clip below) was held just during/after a similar snowstorm, with the peloton racing over the Kemmelberg. Descending the cobbled Kemmel after a coating of snow? One shudders to think about doing that. In recent years they debated taking it out of the course completely cited as too dangerous...even with radios ;) How'd they do it back in 1975? Maybe those old steel bikes and spoked wheels handled