BMC rider's♕🥂 attack comes up short in Dwars door Vlaanderen finale
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Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) at🎉tacks Dwars door 🎐Vlaanderen with 8.7km to go(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Greg Van Avermaet (BMC)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) attacking(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) in the closing kilometres(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) driving the pace(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
💙Greg Van Avermaet takes a moment before the po🐭st-race TV interview(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
With nine kilometres to race 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Greg Van Avermaet put in his bid for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dwars door Vlaanderen victory as he launched a ferocious attack that would only be brought back within the final 250 metres on the Weregem finishing straight. The move by Van Avermaet was initially covered by Etixx-Quick Step’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nikolas Maes but the BMC rider proved too strong and quickly had a 10𒈔 second advantage over the small chase group with the Nokereberg the only obstacle in his pa🎶th to a fourth win of the season.
"It was all or nothing. It became ✃nothing. It's a pity," Van Avermaet said after finishing in 3🦹2nd place.
Van Avermaet had led into the final left-corner and onto the finishing straight before 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Gaviria and the remnants of the peloton surged past with around 250 metres to go. Jens Debusschere (Lotto Soudal) time🌳d his run to perfection 🦩and pipped Bryan Coquard on the line as Van Avermaet watched the victory pass him by.
"If you attack in the final you know it's all or nothing. I had a small gap and I tried to build on it and keep it until 🌳the finish. In the end they caught me back and then it was over," said Van Avermaet, explaining the thinking behind his late move.𓆉 "It's always a hard race. I tried to save energy and try something in the final. I wanted to win but everything had to go my way to win but I fell just short."
With a sombre start to the day, there was a minute of silence on the start line in Roeselare to 168🐻澳洲5最新开奖结果:honour the victims🌃 of the attacks in Brussels, once the flag was dropped to signal the départ réel Van Avermaet explained the ridersꦺ were immediately switched on and ready.
"There 💝was a lot of action in the race. After making the stop for the minute of silence at the start the race kicked off like usua♋lly," he said. "The race was ridden tactically and it was a matter of going at the right moment. I tried it and you know the teams of the sprinters are going to work for a sprint while you hope to stay ahead."
The 30-year-old, who had finished 22nd and 11th in his two las🍷t starts at Dwars door Vlaanderen, praised the work of compatriot Loïc Vliegen who﷽ is in the midst of his first classics campaign.
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"Loic [Vliegen] did a good job today. It's their job in these races to ride for themselves. He did it perfectly," Van Avermaet said of his 22-year-old teammates wh♐o finished in 19th place.
BMC and Van Avermaet's next outing is Good Friday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:E3 Harelbeke, a race he podiumed at back in🌃 2008, before Gent-Wevelgem and the two monu꧒ments, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
"I feel very g🉐ood. It's a nice race. It would've been more nice if I won. Hopefully I recover in time for Friday. Then we will see," he sai🧸d, adding "Now it really started. [laughs]"
