Quick-Step Floors will look to continue a run of strong performances on the cobblestones this season on at Gent-Wevelgem.
Three-time winner Tom Boonen and sprinting star Fernando Gaviria will headline the well-rounded Quick-Step roster on Sunday. Gent-Wevelgem will serve as another opportunity for Boonen to hone is form ahead of his final visits to the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix before his impending retirement. The Belgian last won Gent-Wevelgem in 2012, with a fifth-place showing in 2014 his strongest result recently.
Gaviria was the team's best-placed rider last year in sixth place, taking second in the sprint – to FDJ's Arnaud Démare – behind a four-man lead group. More recently, the Colombian notched fifth place at Milan-San Remo, pipped by Katusha-Alpecin's Alexander Kristoff in the sprint behind the lead trio. Gaviria has already racked up four victories so far this year.
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As usual, Quick-Step will have several alternative cards to play on the cobbled terrain. Zdenek Stybar, Niki Terpstra and Matteo Trentin are always riders to watch come Classics season, while Yves Lampaert will take the start having proven his form at Wednesday's Dwars door Vlaanderen, where he delivered Quick-Step's first one-day WorldTour win of the year.
Quick-Step Floors for Gent-Wevelgem: Tom Boonen, Fernando Gaviria, Iljo Keisse, Yves Lampaert, Zdenek Stybar, Niki Terpstra, Matteo Trentin, Julien Vermote.
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