Tom Boonen
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"Grand Tour (cycling)/Grand Tours"

:"Tour de France"

::Points classification in the Tour de France/Points classification (2007 Tour de France/2007)

::6 individual stages (2004 Tour de France/2004, 2005 Tour de France/2005, 2007 Tour de France/2007)

:"Vuelta a España"

::2 individual stages (2008 Vuelta a España/2008)

"Race stage/Stage races"

:Tour of Belgium (2005)

:Tour de Picardie (2004)

:Tour of Qatar (2006, 2008, 2009, 2012)

:World Ports Classic (2012)

"Classic cycle races/One-day races and Classics"

:Dwars door Vlaanderen (2007)

:E3 Prijs Vlaanderen (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012 E3 Harelbeke/2012)

:Gent–Wevelgem (2004 Gent–Wevelgem/2004, 2011 Gent–Wevelgem/2011, 2012 Gent–Wevelgem/2012)

:Grote Scheldeprijs (2004, 2006)

:Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2007, 2009, 2014 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne/2014)

:Paris–Brussels (2012)

:Paris–Roubaix (2005 Paris–Roubaix/2005, 2008 Paris–Roubaix/2008, 2009 Paris–Roubaix/2009, 2012 Paris–Roubaix/2012)

:Tour of Flanders (2005 Tour of Flanders/2005, 2006 Tour of Flanders/2006, 2012 Tour of Flanders/2012)

:Belgian National Road Race Championships/National Road Race Championships (2009, 2012)

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I'm lacking a little competition, but the knee is fine. It doesn't hurt and it's good enough to start the Vuelta and begin my preparations for the world's.

The Belgian riders did everything for me, ... I didn't have to work hard until the end. At the finish, Mario Aerts gave me perfect position.

It's okay that the others are ahead of me here. It doesn't worry me. I really didn't try in this Vuelta. I only came to the Vuelta to recuperate my fitness and I leave here at about 80 percent fitness. If I was here at top fitness I might not have reached the peak at the world's. At Madrid, I want to be 110 percent fitness and I didn't want to peak too early.

I'm not a 100 percent satisfied, but let's say 98 percent.

It's OK that the others are ahead of me here. It doesn't worry me. I really didn't try in this Vuelta, ... I'm only here to prepare for the world championships. That's the only thing that matters to me right now.

The world's is the only race that matter for me. My goal here at the Vuelta is sharpen my fitness. If I win a stage, great, but the most important thing at the Vuelta is to leave stronger than I came.

(Alejandro) Valverde is going to drop some bombs. And if it ends up finishing in a bunch sprint I'm not sure Petacchi will get his Italian train going.