Fifteen years of finish straights, and I still prefer the muddy side of the barrier

I’m Wannes. I started on the sports desk of a regional daily in West Flanders in 2011, covering the junior races nobody else turned up to. Since then I’ve followed the spring classics from a motorbike, a car roof and, once, a tractor.

The Breakaway began in 2023 as a Monday email to thirty friends in my cycling club. It is still free, still written on Sunday night, and still one long read plus whatever the weekend left over.