"With good legs I can compete" - Laurens Sweeck optimistic ahead of Belgian Cyclocross Championships

This weekend's Belgian National Cyclocross Championships look like being one of the mostly hotly-contested National Championships anywhere this winter. One man who holds hopes of securing the victory, is Crelan-Corendon's Laurens Sweeck.

"I have been doing my best for a while, but bad luck often threw a spanner in the works. It is already getting better, but I am still looking for consistency that isn't there," Sweeck tells Sporza of his form going into the Championships.

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For victory Sweeck believes he'll have four main competitors. "I am not going to deny that I am one of the four candidates for victory. This together with Eli Iserbyt, Michael Vanthourenhout and Thibau Nys," he analyses. "I haven't been able to win a cross this season, but the other three have. So they are further ahead. Of course, I would like to ride around with that tricolor jersey again. That would mean a lot."

"My chances of winning? I am one of the four top favourites, let me stop at that," Sweeck chuckles in conclusion.

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