Zdenek Stybar will be present on Paris-Roubaix even if he had some trouble with his teeth falling out at the Tour of Flanders last Sunday. The Etixx-Quick Step rider, with the absence of Tom Boonen, will be one of the cards that the Belgian team will be able to play.

“I would do a long training anyway so it’s also nice to do a race around Antwerp. I’ve never done it so I’m looking forward to it.” Stybar said. Now he can focus totally on Paris-Roubaix. “I definitely look forward to it. The race is one of the biggest Monuments. It’s the kind of race that everyone wants to win. I hope that one day I can win it as well.”

He told also about his surgical operation: “Now it’s better. Luckily my dentist wasn’t on holidays. At first I feared that my dentist would surely be on holidays and I wouldn’t be able to find another one. Luckily he was at home. He read my mail and saw the photos. He called me and I was able to visit him on Monday evening until eleven o’clock. Yesterday I was on his couch until midnight, for one and a half hours. Now it’s all fixed. I have new ones. It has to heal until the end of May before thinking about normal teeth. Now I can go on again.”