The Belgian town of Harelbeke (a small municipality in the West Flanders province) has held a formal ceremony honouring local cycling legend Julien Delbecque, exactly 100 years after he won Paris-Roubaix in 1925 — a commemoration given extra resonance by Wout van Aert's victory in the same race last Sunday. The town's heritage alderman, who traced Delbecque's descendants through a local history Facebook group, invited the cyclist's extended family to the town hall, where archival photographs were displayed and relatives noted a striking physical resemblance between Delbecque and his grandson. Delbecque, who also won the Tour of Flanders in 1924, had been largely forgotten for nearly half a century, making the tribute all the more significant to his family, with his daughter Nelly describing it as "a great honour."