Peter Sagan, winner of Gent-Wevelgem last year, came into the race in cracking form after Friday’s triumph at E3 Harelbeke, but it was John Degenkolb who prevailed to seal the biggest one-day victory of his career.
According to an interview with the Slovak cyclist, Peter Sagan, released on the cyclingnews portal, Sagan showed that his own sense of perspective, at least, remains very much intact when he declared himself pleased with his third place. Asked if his self-belief had been buoyed by his weekend in Belgium, meanwhile, Sagan was typically succinct. “I'm always confident because if I don't have faith in myself, who should I believe in?”
Zuzana Botiková
