Knaven's view on week 1

Even though he's not part of the Quick.Step team in the tour, Servais Knaven, team mate of Tom Boonen has got a clear view on what's happening in the Tour de France's peloton. "The first week there were few surprises: every day a small group got away and the peloton brought it back under the command of the sprinters' teams," Knaven wrote on wieleruitslagen.be. Now and again it was exciting to see, and it looked like the leaders would stay away, but from experience I know that the peloton knows exactly what they are doing."

The lack of a victory for his team is something he attributes to the absence of the Petacchi-train. "Tom Boonen was in yellow for four days, but fell short in the sprints. It's a real pity for Tom and the team; they certainly deserve a win as they did so much work, but things don't work like that.

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