"I think that, if I can stay healthy and I don’t have too much bad luck in the next weeks, for sure I can be on a good level again and just hope that it is enough. It has been enough for a while and I hope that it will still be enough."

 

Boonen wants his Etixx-Quick Step team to focus on getting the numbers into the finale but making sure that in 2015, they dont let their advantage slip away like it did in 2014 Flanders, after having four riders in the initial selection but only one guy in the final four to contest the win.

 

"It was a strange situation and that is something that we need to talk about; how we can take care that doesn’t happen again. If you are beaten by a stronger guy then no problem, but if you have four guys in a group like that then I think that we could have handled that differently and I think that we will in the future."

 

Boonen also says the Worlds Road Race course suits him and he wants to have one last try at winning the Rainbow Jersey, a feat he has achieved before, in Madrid in 2005.