With a name as fun to say as Hoogerheide, you know that you are in for a great race. As usual, cycling.tv covered the womens and mens races. Both were quite similar with the world champ (Vos or Albert) taking the win but losing the World Cup series.

Van den Brand took some help from a teammate to keep close enough to Vos to take the overall title. And in the interview after she said it was not her best race...plus a bunch of other stuff in Dutch.

Stybar was in fairly good shape but somehow Albert managed to catch up after a start as bad as I normally do. With help of a teammate, Stybar managed to keep up in second after a slip cost him the lead over Albert after shoving his way passed in a beautiful corner (around 2:00 in the clip)

You can tell that World Champs are next week because everything about today stunk of psychology. Sven Nys, for example, was way off. And Stybar has another 'bad day'. Pure sports psychology from the lot of them.