Edvald Boasson Hagen is hoping to collect on his strong early-season form by adding a monument to his trophy case in the next eight days at the Tour of Flanders or Paris Roubaix.
It's a worthy goal for the 28-year-old, who moved last year to the South African Dimension Data team after spending four years with Sky. It comes after he showed top form in February at the Tours of Qatar and Oman, where he won three stages and would have taken the overall in Qatar but for an ill-timed double puncture.
On the eve of De Ronde, Boasson Hagen says he's in good shape and ready for the cobbled classics leading up through Roubaix on April 10.
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"I've been in Belgium, I've been doing some recon and it's been really nice," he told Cyclingnews. "I should be ready for tomorrow."
Boasson Hagen's entry into the Belgian classics last weekend at Gent-Wevelgem, where he finished 18th, was hampered by illness, but he said on Saturday that there are no lingering signs of the bug and he should be "all good" for Flanders.
"We will see how it goes, but I should be ok," he said. “[Gent-Wevelgem] wasn't such a good result but I was in really good condition. I was feeling good in the final so I think that the form was good and I should be ready for tomorrow, but it's never an easy race and it's a long race with all the cobbles.”
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