Lefevere: Winning the Worlds TTT was the ultimate triumph
14 November 2018 02:26
Patrick Lefevere has called winning the team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria, this year "the ultimate triumph" during a season in which his Quick-Step Floors team took 73 victories and won the UCI WorldTour teams classification. Writing on his team's website, Lefevere said that the Worlds TTT – which Quick-Step have won four times in seven years – stands out for him as the measure of such hard work in the discipline, and particularly represents a victory for the whole team: riders, staff and sponsors. "As a team, we're very much driven by the exercise of developing ourselves on every level: looking for improvements across areas like our riders' programmes, training and nutrition, as well as the technology that goes into running a world-class cycling team, including clothing, bikes, equipment, vehicles, tools and so on," said Lefevere.ADVERTISEMENT "The TTT is in many ways the ultimate display of all these things coming together – a test of raw power, the right mixture of riders, technique, tactics, equipment, setup and performance on the day. Thus, to win the title is the ultimate triumph for a team, its staff and sponsors." Other particularly significant wins in a sea of top results included Niki Terpstra's Tour of Flanders title, Elia Viviani's four Giro d'Italia and three Vuelta a España stage wins, and Bob Jungels' victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Jungels, Tour de France 'King of the Mountains' jersey winner Julian Alaphilippe and Belgian road race champion Yves Lampaert were singled out for special mention: "I'm pleased to see how they took on and lived up to the responsibility this year," said Lefevere of the three riders who are still only in their mid-20s.
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