Niki Terpstra: 'I know how annoying team dominance can be'

Quick-Step Floors controlled the race and ended up taking the victory as well as second place

Niki Terpstra leads Yves Lampaert at the 2018 E3 Harelbeke (Sunada)

(Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA)

Quick-Step Floors admit that it must have been annoying to be in another team and racing against them in Belgium's E3 Harelbeke, capped off with a victory by Dutchman Niki Terpstra.

They led the race when a crash happened behind midway and continued dominating from there. Terpstra rode clear with team-mate Yves Lampaert on the Taaienberg where Tom Boonen used to fire. Philippe Gilbert or Zdenek Stybar would then mark anyone who tried to chase from behind.

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