The Tour of Bruges is a wind-swept sprinters' Classic across the flat polders of West Flanders, run in the thick of the cobbled-classics season. Its roots go back to 1977 and the old Three Days of De Panne stage race, which became a one-day event in 2018 and took the Bruges name in 2026. There is barely a hill on the course, but the open coastal roads invite crosswinds that can shatter the bunch into echelons in minutes. When the wind stays down it ends in a bunch sprint, and when it blows it becomes a fight for survival. In 2026 Dylan Groenewegen took the win in a fast finale. It is a race that looks simple on paper and rarely is.