Greig Leach

Omega Pharma Quick-Step had played their cards, or should I say riders, to perfection. All day it was Thomas De Gendt out ahead of the group. Then it was Niki Terpstra who left the peloton to join his teammate at the business end of the race. Finally as the break went under the kilometer, it was the third man of the triumphant, Dnenk Styby, the National Road Racing Champion of the Czech Republic, who nipped off the front. Around the corner it was Styby who raised his arms in victory.