Flu keeps Demare from Omloop Het Nieuwsblad start

Arnaud Démare's Classics campaign will have to wait past the Opening Weekend in Belgium as the French sprinter has not yet fully recovered from influenza he picked up last month at the Volta a Algarve, according to a report in L'Equipe.

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