Devolder needs to control himself

"I urgently need to learn to control myself," Discovery Channel's Stijn Devolder told Het Laatste Nieuws. "I don't like anything more than to race according to my own temperament. It's just that that isn't as profitable."

His 2005 season is the proof of that: he raced aggressively in Qatar, the Ruta del Sol, Het Volk, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Tirreno-Adriatico and the E3 Prijs, with a stage win in the Three Days of De Panne the best result. "But by then I had already had my best days. In the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, my favourite races, I was as dead as mutton. Painful."

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