The 2025 edition of Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields will once again start from the Menin Gate in Ypres, a memorial to the ...

School children visiting Tyne Cot near Ypres, Belgium ... was another war poet who agreed with Siegfried's feelings. In Flanders Fields by John McCrae was a famous wartime poem.

Mads Pedersen started a solo with 56 kilometres to go and held his own against the peloton. Tim Merlier was second at the ...

a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously moving poem about the flowers that refused to die amid the carnage of Flanders. It was to mark the ...

starting under the Menin Gate in remembrance of soldiers killed on the Flanders Fields during World War I. The race is slightly shorter by 2.1km of official roll-out from Ypres. The first climb ...

Gent-Wevelgem rolls through Flanders Fields, an area forever entwined with ... but now takes off west in the centre of Ypres. The race takes riders north through windswept De Moeren and over ...

The race begins again in Ypres close to the imposing Menin Gate, and out of respect for those who lost their lives in Flanders Fields, the peloton will launch onto the 169.1km course with a wave ...