Female cyclist forced to stop race after catching up with the men

The women's edition of a prestigious one-day cycling race in Belgium was halted after a breakaway rider had almost caught the men's race, which had started on the same course 10 minutes earlier. Former Swiss road race champion Nicole Hanselmann rode clear in the opening miles of Omloop het Nieuwsblad on Saturday. But when she approached the men's race, organizers of the early cobbled classic called for the women's race to be neutralized so that a gap would remain between the races. Hanselmann wa