You might have wondered about why I have been so silent recently in spite of the cobbles season, and thus my season, coming to it's peak.
Truth be told I don't know what to say as for some reason the team management forgot to tell the UCI who were supposed to start the cobbled races. And contrary to earlier practice the UCI didn't give a damn about me showing up at the startline ready to race both Ronde van Vlaanderen and my beloved Paris - Roubaix. They denied me starting because they wanted to decide who got to race for the team!
Theories as to why riders didn't get a say to their calendar in the case of an absent manager this time around can be many. I don't know if the UCI just forgot or it has something to do with their close connections to top cobblers like Vanmarcke and Verboven. No matter what I can't ven begin to put words on how frustrated I am right now!
I have no idea what will happen to the rest of my season as no one communicates with me. Right now I have to get away from everything and will go home to my parents and the sheep on the moor and think things over. Right now my world is shattered and I have to figure out what to do with the pieces - if anything at all...
At this point I don't know if you'll ever see me on top level again - that depends completely on how things are handled by the authorities from here. I hope things will sort themselves out so I can target some of the few cobbles left in the rest of the season, but it feels like it's completely out of my hands.
