By Susan Westemeyer
The 24-year-old learned some hard lessons from the whole thing. "I have good colleagues and good fans. But not everybody was good with me over the last few months," he told Cyclingnews. "This whole thing was bad for my name and image. I can do nothing about it, only train and live like the perfect pro. Then next season I have the chance to show a lot of people that they were wrong."
Things picked up again in September when he signed a two-year contract with Team Silence-Lotto. Dekker is very enthusiastic about his new team and new teammates, such as Cadel Evans. He is "a fantastic rider," and "young stars like Greg Van Avermaet, Jurgen Van den Broeck and top rider Philippe Gilbert."
Read the entire interview with Dekker.
