One month after the national championship Zdenek made his comeback in the Tour de Wallonie. In the first stage, he helped teammate Gianni Meersman to a second place. “It was very close. Tomorrow we’ll try again.”
“It was the first time that I could wear the Czech national jersey on the road. It was very nice, but it was a little weird to get back after been out of competition for so long. The second part of my season has really started today. Hopefully I can improve day by day.”
Today’s stage had to end in a sprint for Omega Pharma-Quick Step. “It was hard to put it all together because there were a lot of attacks. Five kilometers from the end we succeeded and it came to a sprint. Gianni was unfortunately beaten by Jens Debusschere in the last ten meters.”