Mathias Vacek: I want to win in Belgium and talk about the Olympics. And then to the Vuelta

At the start of the season, these were the fifth classics, which the only twenty-one-year-old Czech rider Stje Lidl-Trek fell in love with.

We changed it to a classic theme, and it turned out to be a feast of good seductress. So we had to put people through the ropes, because there were a total of twelve of us for the classics, he explains. But as I drove, I tried to pass the time. And I’m probably the most satisfied with Roubaix.

Was it originally supposed to be the most important man for your leader Mads Pedersen at Roubaix?
In the classics, it’s like you ask the team for advice before the start, but then during the race, things like dust, defects, mechanical problems happen. Therefore, whoever is at hand has to help. I was originally looking for niches around the edge of the drain.

But eventually you pushed Pedersen back into the lead group and later he even set the pace even, in the spotlight of the television cameras.
I felt that I had good legs and I was right and ahead in sectors where the field was divided and where people had problems and fell. We left the darkness ahead of you, j, Mads and Eddy Theuns.

Only both had a defect.
So we searched for a bit and finally we managed to do the most important piece of work for Mads. We left what was in us to those dice. The place for Mads was born out of that.

And for you, praise from the dark for the work you have done?
Yes, just now Mads walked up to me after the seduction, he had tears in his eyes and hugged me. That always happens when you see that he is a leader in the work I did for him. It was great.

Plus ask for a change, others can help you, and you’ll be a liar.
Or ask Mads for a nomination for someone to lead the way and say to the sports editor: I want Vack with me on the team, because he is loyal and I have to be there for him. I’m not exactly the type of seductress and hunter who is ever told to do something, to do things my way. I always try to do the work that I have to do, and if I can, I have to go a little extra.

Did you get the chance to wear them at some of the classics this year?
On Nokere Koerse and Bredene Classic (semiclassics category 1.Pro, where he took 23rd and 21st place). But those are just the kind of classics, where the legs don’t always make the decision, and you also worry a lot about the body. Come in a sprint. I tried to pass and board the others after them, but they always ate it. That’s how I seduced myself, but there was no real result. Overall, however, I am satisfied that I had a good performance in all the classics.

After the well-deserved seductive break you got after Roubaix, your schedule has gotten a bit tighter this season, hasn’t it?
The first race after the break was Eschborn-Frankfurt, where I had good legs, and then I got two flats, but I just passed. And they quickly called me on behalf of the Kolem Maarska stage. There you are quite vm, and I would like to try a stage. Then I will go around Norway and around Belgium, where I started last year (he finished a total of nine at that time and won the jersey of the best young man) and this year I want to fight for the overall position.

About the overall relationship?
Such is cl. I’m fine with that seduction, I just have to go get the timing belt. This is the type of turn in which I should be able to win. Even around Norway I could fight for the overall position, even when there is also one stage with that hill on the program.

However, the main highlight of the season should be the Olympics for you. Only one place can be used for the power line. How did it turn out with the fight for his cast?
The selection of five candidates is a given by the union, and this is bad about how consistent and effective they will be. I didn’t have much time to compete in the classics, but now I have a chance to sell my performance and show that I belong at the Olympics.

Should the place at the national championship of the republic play a role in the decision on the nomination?
Certainly yes, but it should be about all-season stable performance.

Will the profile of the track be contracted?
I studied it at It should suit me, and besides, the Olympic seduction is also interesting, ev nm (due to kwtm) we cannot start with many cyclists. So it will be a bit of a seductive old age. But Pa has a long way to go, a lot of things will happen before then. Every day, the nominations for the Olympics and the Vuelta are the two main events that I am interested in.

Have you written a nomination for the Vuelta since then?
Yes. And Pedersen and Skjelmose should ride it too. I will have to be prepared to help them there.

Assuming that you are not afraid of the daily performance on the Grand Tour.
don’t worry Kad once had to go through his first Grand Tour. Sure, it’s a step into the unknown, but that’s about it.