The Russian cycling team Astana Qazaqstan Gleb Syritsa told that he had gained tremendous experience in the first season of the Spring Classics and that the Tour of Flanders was more difficult than Paris-Roubaix.
The classic racing season ended on Sunday with the monumental Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Syritsa, in her first full professional season on the World Tour, has played most of the spring “monuments”, including the northern “classics”.
You’ve ridden all the Northern Key Classics this season. Roubaix is hell in the north, and the Tour of Flanders is hell? Which was the hardest?
– On the Tour of Flanders, I felt better, but for me it is technically much harder than Roubaix. “Rube” is tougher mentally. You just have to understand and accept – now it will hurt. “Flanders” includes everything – short slides with cobblestones are usually a separate pleasure. I also messed up a few times on the Flanders, they changed the bike, so there was also a whole series of accidents that I would like to avoid. Well, the first experience is the most memorable.
– Were you in that blockade where 40 people died?
– I visited. My partner and I were in a good position at that time. We thought we definitely wouldn’t lie there, but nope, Syritsa told .
The cyclist also noted that after the Tour of Flanders he could not recover for a long time. “I got on the bus and regained my senses for about an hour. There was no appetite. For the first time in my life, I was so tired that I didn’t think much in principle,” Syritsa added in a chat with .
Source : MatchTV
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