Third place for Van Asbroeck in third stage of the Tour de Pologne
Tom Van Asbroeck took his revenge on Tuesday after his crash yesterday. The Belgian sprinter placed third in the third stage of the Tour de Pologne, just short of Matteo Pelucchi (IAM Cycling) grabbing his second win.
“I was glad that I was able to deliver, again,” Van Asbroeck said after the stage. “Everything went good today. I lost my self-confidence a little bit after yesterday’s crash. The team helped me with that. They were good today. Rick Flens took the initiative as the team’s captain, and he did that perfectly. Dennis van Winden’s lead-out was superb afterwards. I thought that I was going to win for a while, but then Pelucchi moved up suddenly. I doubted that I could hold him off. That moment of doubt was the reason that Giacomo Nizzolo [Trek Factory] was able to stay in front of me.”
Meeting
“This was a good moment after yesterday’s crash,” Sports Director Jan Boven said. “You always want to win, of course, eventually, but we took another step in the right direction.
"We had a good meeting this morning. We changed a little bit of our sprint preparation and made some other agreements. We were struggling with our timing, but that went a lot better today.”
Freedom
On Wednesday the first hilly stage is on the program. Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s plans changed after Robert Gesink’s withdrawal. “With Robert, we had a plan,” Boven continued. “Now, we have more freedom in the way we approach the race. Martijn Keizer and Bert-Jan Lindeman can do their things.”
