Stybar

Albert 2nd.

Slow first rounds, all favorites started bad, around 13-15 postition, we saw Vervecken attacking in the first round, Verstraeten to. At this point Stybar was the only one of the favorites moving to the front. In the second round it was Sven Vantourenhout who had a gap of about 3 seconds, Stybar closed the gab while Nys and Albert still were around postion 10. Stybar caught Vanthourenhout and quickly went on alone. After a bit of solo by Stybar, Nys and Albert joined and they leaded for the whole race. Altough Wellens came close to making it, but Nys attacked when Wellens had about 2 seconds left. They stayed togheter, Albert seemed strong, he leaded the group. Stybar had his usual rounds of recovering and riding last. In the last 2 rounds Stybar came back to the front and putted huge pressure on Nys and Albert, Albert seemed to crack, but it was Nys who cracked. On the sudden steep hill Stybar took the left side, and Nys, who was about a second behind, took the right side, but apprently he didnt see another rider, who was a round behind, and wrode onto him, falling in the proces, Albert also lost a second, but nothing more due to this. And Stybar was gone, Albert fought back but coudlnt close the gap of 4-5 seconds. Nys was completel§y exhausted and lost around 30 seconds in the last half lap. Klaas Vanthornhout became 4th, Wellens 5th.