Breschel's classics campaign over due to knee surgery

Matti Breschel leads, Tour of Denmark 2010, stage 3

Dane Matti Breschel says his chances of racing the spring classics are over due to knee pain and a pending surgery on Tuesday.

"I have tried to ignore it," Breschel told Denmark's BT newspaper, "but I have actually been able to feel pain since my knee injury that occurred during Paris-Roubaix back in the spring."

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.