Ronde Van Vlaanderen
The Ronde van Vlaanderen bicycle road race moved its start to the market square at Sint-Niklaas from Ghent in 1977, mainly because the great square provided close proximity for the growing number of spectators. By 1988 the start had grown into a two-day affair with a spectacle presented by BRT television the previous night. Since 1998 the start of the race has taken place in Brugge.
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