Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor Professional Biking Staff) took a second consecutive victory, after profitable GP de Fourmies final weekend, he went on to safe the win once more at Grand Prix d’Isbergues-Pas de Calais on Sunday.
De Kleijn sprinted to victory forward of runner-up Laurence Pithie (Groupama-FDJ) and third-placed Gerben Thijssen (Intermarché-Wanty) within the elite males’s 198.8km race routed by way of the difficult Pas-de-Calais division and into Isbergues, France.
The Tudor sprinter stated that he crashed with three laps to go, however stated he took precautions and after a fast dialogue together with his staff determined to go for the dash within the last.
“It was a pleasant race, we had every part below management till I crashed with a number of teammates with three laps to go. I first needed to verify there was nothing incorrect with my head so I requested myself a number of questions. I may reply all of them so thought I used to be good to go. I went once more and was requested by the staff if I needed to attempt to dash. I actually did,” he stated.
In a staff press launch, De Kleijn stated that his teammates needed to await an extended interval after the crash as a result of the staff automobile was final within the queue, however he thanked his teammates for his or her help in getting him again within the race and for his or her lead-out within the last dash.
“We may come again due to an awesome staff effort however then I solely had Rick (Pluimers) and Maikel (Zaijlaard) for the dash. They did a tremendous job as soon as once more,” he stated.
“Within the dash, Maikel was main for a very long time, and I even thought in some unspecified time in the future that he may make it to the end, however I finally went and received. It’s superb. I used to be in lots of ache due to the crash. It was laborious however with guys like these, it’s so good to offer all of it and end it off.”
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