My name is Elin - A pro cycling lover's reflections

A rider from Belgium as never before won the Maglia Blanco, the competition for the young cyclists. Now they must likely will have a winner. Or yes, Kevin Seeldraeyers will win the race, because otherwise he would have crashed very badly during the stage and have to leave, and that will not happen. I believe Francesco Masciarelli wouldn't be too happy either if he won the competition in such way. The Italian Francesco Masciarelli is in second in the young riders' competition. He is now 2.11 minutes behind the Belgian rider, so it will be difficult for the young Italian to win the competition.

Kevin Seeldraeyers will stand on the podium today and he will be the winner of the young riders competition, the best under-26 rider. Seeldraeyers is not yet 23 years old, so you can say he is 22 years old. He is really young.
"It almost 100 percent that I will win the jersey," he said. "I am not so good, but the time trial is flat and it is not long. They say there are a lot of corners and it will be hard to take a lot of time back."
Seeldraeyers took the white jersey of the best young rider from Thomas Lövkvist (Team Columbia-Highroad) on the Giro's mountain stage to Monte Petrano, when the Swedish rider lost precious amount of time.

"The hardest stage was to Pinerolo because I had diarrhea. It was a big problem and hard that day, but I wanted to continue for the classification.

"Now it is nice, but in the race it is not so nice sometimes. There was a lot of pain through the three weeks, this Giro was not easy." Said the Belgian rider, who will soon go home to Belgium and prepare for the Ster Elektrotoer stage race and the Belgian championships.

"I want to race for the classification in the big tours and small tours, and get more jerseys. It is not so easy, I am not Alberto Contador."