AWESOME FINISH! 🤩 | 2026 Men's Antwerp Port Epic Final KM's | TNT Sports Cycling

This is impressive from the man who I think has given this breakaway more than anyone else. Per Stranhagen is closing everything down. Does someone else think of going? No. Oh, I love finales like this. This is going to be good. This is going to be good. Not least because if they do get to sprint it out this leading group of nine, I wouldn't be too surprised to see the remnants of the peloton coming in behind them. We're not looking back at them at all at the moment. It could well be that our director here has decided to leave the peloton to themselves. I don't know though. Van Moer now going down the right-hand side. The Belgian for Pinarello. Q36.5 in amongst all is attacking. This is going to do some damage to someone at the moment. The nine are managing to hang on. Sandy Dujardin hanging on to Paul Miguel. Yeah, I think possibly Victor van der Poelter is feeling it the most in here at the moment. The man in red with the white helmet right in the middle there. Alexey Reynard drops off again. Watch out for riders who are deliberately dropping off in order to rush rush a gap. That's one of the tactics that probably one of this nine will do. Brent van Moer going again. He'll be hoping to hit them twice in a row and see if they don't respond. But Martins Vircek responds. Dries de Bont responds. What a fantastic finale here in the ninth edition of the Antwerp Port Epic. You can't say it doesn't live up to its name. Either Reynard is deliberately leaving little gaps or he's struggling to close them at the moment. The man, I'll remind viewers if you've joined us for the end of this, bridged across to this group of originally eight by himself. This is not a race-long breakaway, by the way. It went pretty late on in the race on the second and towards the end of those second big laps around the edge of the port here in this race which is contained across its whole distance. 41.5k of gravel and 28.5k of pavé. Brutally hard. No hills. It's pan flat. If you took out the pavé and the gravel it would be a very fast omelette effectively. But on a day like this you add in the heat. Extreme heat in excess of 32 degrees. Lack of wind. Dust. And then all the attacking riding as well. Plus the crashes. Punches. Chasing back on. All of it. Alexey Reynard's got his arm, leg and backside covered in blood and dirt. He's been down on the deck. He's had a bike, no he's had wheel changes and a crash. He's now in this leading group. We've got a camera motorbike right in amongst them. You're watching a brilliant tactical finale, which I hope they have timed correctly. With 40 seconds. So Alexey Reynard swung out. He now freewheels. Zverechek swings out too. Brent Van Moer laying right off the back and he's going to tack up the inside. Well he's teleporting that one. He's trying to go on the left-hand side of the road. That. Oh he's gone the wrong side of the barrier. I hope Brent Van Moer can get back on here. Yes he can. Oh he knows something about this bridge that no one else does. That was a clever move. I was thinking at one point there it might have been a mistake. But actually he's seen it, planned it or done it anyway. Brent Van Moer going hard. Final 1600 meters here as well. Brent Van Moer has not quite timed it right. It was so close. It's actually Zverechek who's closing this down. Now this could be the day that Alexey Reynard gets the big win. He shakes his head though. Sandy Dujardin looking good. I'll remind you again the two fastest sprinters in here. Oh dear Alexey Reynard. The confidence man is riding through treacle here. I think he's going to get dropped if he doesn't get back onto the back wheel. Either that or he is playing every kind of game. They're about to come into the final k. If Alexey Reynard wins from here then but I don't think so. I don't think even he's that good an actor. We're watching the drone shot right now coming into the straight as well. It's really stretched out. I think we're going to follow the drone over the top of him. There's Reynard from the back. Is he going to rush the gap? I don't know. Won't be too long before we go to the shots in front of these riders. Reynard tag onto the back. It is Brent Van Moer now who's going for this. He's got Per Stranhagenis now who attacks. Now Per Stranhagenis goes. This could be it. He's got the firepower to attack from somewhere just like this. The Norwegian here he goes. Final 300 meters. He's back on the cobbles. Svercic is chasing like mad. It won't be a Tim Melia victory this time. Not at all but his own teammate is there. Can Per Stranhagenis hold on? He's got Dries Devont coming after him. Dries Devont the man who started all of this. Is he going to do it? Can he close off on Per Stranhagenis? Per Stranhagenis is the favorite from that leading group. Tenth at Trobro Leon showed his strength, attack as well and made it count. The Norwegian does it again. Epic conditions in an absolutely epic edition of the Antwerp Port Epic. Wow.