After winning the UCI Road World Championships last year, Chantal Blaak (Boels-Dolmans) has made the Tour of Flanders her next major target.
The Dutch rider, who recently signed a contract extension with Boels-Dolmans taking her through to the end of 2020, will race for the first time in the rainbow jersey at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad later this month. However, while she has experienced success there, her sights are set firmly on winning Flanders five weeks later.
“That one is missing,” she told Cyclingnews at her Boels Dolmans’s presentation in Heerlen earlier this week. “It’s a Monument, and I have dreamed since I was a kid of winning Flanders. I have been close a couple of times.
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“But also it is not everything because there are a lot of good races. If there’s a chance, I will try to take it, but if I am not good enough I am the first to say I will work for my teammates.”
Though she was not the dark horse winner some suggested, Blaak began the World Championship road race as a domestique, it was only when she attacked after rejoining the peloton from a mid-race crash that she began to believe the title could be hers.
“I started thinking how I could win, because if it continued I should do it for Holland,” she said of the penultimate lap breakaway with Briton Hannah Barnes and Frenchwoman Audrey Cordon-Ragot.
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