Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen]; born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who won the 2005 world road race championship. He is a member of the Etixx–Quick-Step team, and is a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix 4 times and the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France and winning the...
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth15 October 1980
CityMol, Belgium
conditions finally great stage ticked won
The conditions were very difficult, but I had ticked off this stage and it's great to have finally won it.
percent
I'm not a 100 percent satisfied, but let's say 98 percent,
affect crashed hurt
I crashed and it hurt a bit, but it did not affect the sprint. I was on the left, he was on the right.
comments extra found knew motivated motivation ready
I was very motivated and very focused, ... I found some extra motivation from all the comments that said Boonen wasn't in shape,' but I knew I would be ready for the world's.
eventually kept line past wheel
Alejandro started to go for the line about 300 meters out and I just kept on his wheel and eventually managed to get past him.
riders
I don't want to look for any excuses, some riders were just better than me.