GUARDIAN ANGELS

ROGER KLUGE AND CALEB EWAN

Kluge is lead-out man for Lotto-Soudal’s Ewan: The main role I play for Caleb is to position him and Jasper [de Buyst] in the final, to get them into a good position in the last kilometre, on the right wheels, and to start the sprint or to hold them steady if necessary. Some days, I’ll also keep him out of the wind in the last 4 to 5km. Frederik Frison usually does that job, but if he’s not around, then I do it. I’ve not done so many Grand Tours, but I’m getting older and I’m quite experienced, so I know exactly what I need to do to be in position, and that means that he can be a bit more, let’s say, relaxed, knowing that we will take him to exactly the place that he wants to be.

When it comes to the sprint, we know each other pretty well