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Stuyven proves that who dares wins

RACE OF THE MONTH / OMLOOP HET NIEUWSBLAD / 29.02.2020

The day after his anonymous showing at last year’s E3 Classic, a race he later described as the lowest point of his career, Jasper Stuyven sat for an hour with his sports psychologist, desperately trying to rearrange the deckchairs on a classics campaign that he already knew was sinking beyond salvage.

The Belgian must have felt all his instincts had been wrong. He had never trained harder, never

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