Greg Van Avermaet on Friday the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour win. The 29-year old Belgian was driving through the Flemish hill zone the strongest on the Wall of Grammont.
Van Avermaet steamed at the foot of the steep Wall past Pavel Broett and persisted until the line. Tom Dumoulin was still pretty up and stranded on one second on the second spot. The Russian Broett was the number three.
Lars Boom finished in the same time as Dumoulin fifth, but the leader of Belkin lost the bonus seconds have his jersey to his compatriot Giant-Shimano.
Dumoulin, the last two days of the Dutch-Belgian race in two seconds ahead of Boom and eleven on the Italian Manuel Quinziato.
Niki Terpstra took sixth place as the leader of a group including Geraint Thomas, Philippe Gilbert and Filippo Pozzato ended Van Avermaet. on six counts
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Triptych
The fifth stage in the seven-day course by Belgium and the Netherlands, was the beginning of a very difficult triptych with courses successively like the Tour of Flanders, Liege-Basque Aachen-Liege and the Amstel Gold Race.
The riders had Friday in the “mini Tour of Flanders’ with start and finish in Grammont (162.5 miles) nineteen mounds, including the Kruisberg, Leberg, Berendries and three times the Wall of Grammont.
Zdenek Stybar, who last year won the stage with finish in Grammont and the victory won in the Eneco Tour, got no more after his hard crash in the mass print Thursday.
Quartet
Direct from the origin tried quite a few riders to jump away, but it took a while before a flight received the blessing of the pack. Eventually Belgian champion Jens Debusschere, Matteo Trentin, Pablo Lastras and Ivan Rovny drove off.
With only 75 kilometers to go, the quartet had built up a lead of 5:25 minutes. The Belkin team leader Boom had been put in front of the large group and the cost margin thus declined rapidly.
After the first passage of the Wall was Rovny his breakaway companions let go and broke the pack in several pieces. Include Bauke Mollema, the number 53 of the standings, came in a chasing group visit.
Gum
Trentin, who still wrote his name in July, a Tour stage, showed the second ascent of the Wall of Grammont that he was the strongest leader. Lastras stayed on his gums at the Italian, but Debusschere had to solve.
At about 1:40 minutes behind Philippe Gilbert put in an attack just before the summit was taken over by Boom. Initially only Jens Keukeleire could follow the leader from Vlijmen, but later joined include Gilbert, Dumoulin and Sebastian Langeveld on. For Tom Boonen it was too hard.
Cooperation between the big names was not perfect, creating a chasing group came from a man or forties. Langeveld grabbed the amalgamation for an attack, but he did not go.
Barrage
After the barrage of breakaways fell somewhat quiet in the group of favorites, which Trentin and Lastras again some walked out to one minute. It was the sign for Giant-Shimano, the team’s number two in the rankings Dumoulin, in order to head to set.
Just after the penultimate climb, the Dender Oord Berg, was the flight of the Italian and the Spaniard over anyway, and even 3.5 kilometers to the mark went Laurens De Vreese in their own area looking for the stage win.
The Belgian fell silent at the foot of the wall and took the lead Broett about. However, Van Avermaet his jump timed perfectly and got his long-awaited first victory of the year for Dumoulin, who late started his final sprint
Dumoulin:. “I am in great shape here
By: NU.nl
Picture: Reuters
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