The Classics campaign is once again a reason for wrinkles on foreheads of
Lotto sports directors. The Belgian team's greatest asset - at least on paper -
Arnaud De Lie is visibly struggling again despite solid early appearances in France, Spain and Portugal.
"Arnaud trained too much in Spain - two months - and less at home. De Lie likes to be with his cows too much. That is literally what Dirk Demol [Lotto sports director, ed.] told me," says Dirk De Wolf, winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1992 and Dwars Door Vlaanderen 1989 in
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