Rolling with the puncheur: How Greg Van Avermaet stopped being racing’s ‘nearly man’


Having won the Olympic road race gold medal and spent three days in the Tour yellow jersey, cycling’s ‘nearly man’ turned over a new leaf last year. But will 2017 be the year in which Greg Van Avermaet finally comes good in the Classics?

Greg Van Avermaet in the 2015 Tour of Flanders
Having won the Olympic road race gold medal and spent three days in the Tour yellow jersey, cycling’s ‘nearly man’ turned over a new leaf last year. But will 2017 be the year in which Greg Van Avermaet finally comes good in the Classics?