Vanmarcke to lead Belkin at Tour of Flanders
Boom recovering from elbow injury, will target Paris-Roub♈aix
Belkin's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sep Vanmarcke has been showing increasing form in the Classics season's crescendo to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Flanders,𒊎 and will be the team's protected rider for Sunday's🔯 event.
After finishing fourth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and on the podium in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Vanmarcke overcame a number of misfortunes and mechanicals in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:E3 Harelbeke to win the sprint behind the four-man breakaway. The young Belgian even displayed some bunch sprint prowess to take fourth in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gent-Wevelgem.
With these resul🧸ts, and fellow classics specialist Lars Boom's continuing recovery from an elbow injury sustained in Paris-Nice, it is no surprise that Vanmarcke will be Belkin's undisputed team leader for De Ronde.
"There can only be one winner, but of course I hope to be the one," V⛎anmarcke said. "We'll go for it as a team. The team has supported me very well the last few weeks and that is very important as otherwise you'll lose a lot of energy during a race."
Altho✨ugh Vanmarcke has had better single race results, finishing second in Gent-Wevelgem in 2010 and in Paris-Rouba🧸ix last season, this spring has been his most consistent to date and the results bring confidence.
"Every year, I got better and at this moment I feel stronger than🤡 ever," h𒀰e said. "My good shape gives me a lot of confidence, even though I know that riders will look at me. That causes some pressure, but I thinks that's better than when it's the other way around. I just try to not get distracted by it."
Lars Boom has been given the role of ♓support rider in the Tour of Flanders as he tries to heal his injuries, but he hopes to be back to full strength by Paris-Ro💯ubaix.
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"I'm going in the right direction," he explained. "During Gent-Wevelgem I occasionally feꦯlt some pain, but during the race, it got better. Hopefully I can stay with Sep for a long time 🏅in Flanders and maybe next week in Paris-Roubaix, I can do something myself again."
Belkin for Tour of Flanders: Lars Boom, Jos van Emden, Tom Leezer, Bram Tankink, Maarten Tjallingii, Sep Vanmar🌟cke, Robert Wagner and Maarten Wynants.
