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09.04.2008/ In the past weeks it was quiete around Silence - Lotto rider Robbie McEwen. Today the Australian rider will start at the Belgian Pro - Tour race Gent - Wevelgem. In an interview with Belgian based website sporza.be McEwen said: "I did not forget how to win."

© Heinz Zwicky
Robbie McEwen before the start of this years Milano - Sanremo (© Heinz Zwicky)

Robbie McEwen told sporza.be "My form is coming." McEwen continued by saying that there are "not many races for me at the moment because I am not a really a rider for the classics." The Australian sprinter said: So I had already marked Milano - Sanremo, Waregem and de Scheldeprijs."

McEwen said he feels physically well. "The moment has come to win a race."

"I made enough kilometres and did some sprint training sessions last week."

McEwen knows he has a lot of competition in todays Gent - Wevelgem. "Cavendish, Chicchi, Zabel, Hushovd and Napolitano. But this is a race that is impossible to predict."

McEwen will be the captain of the Silence - lotto squad. "We will start with a team which is very different from Sunday [Tour of Flanders, editor]. We don't look for a revenge but we do hope to have not as much bad luck. A victory or a podium spot is a nice result."

Although the season started three months ago a victory would be McEwen's first win this season. "That I did not win yet is because of the circumstances. I had a bad crash and after that I was ill. Of course I would have liked to win already but its not a disaster. I did not forget how to do it."

McEwen continued by saying: "I am not thinking to much about it. By the way, its the quality that counts: Its all about winning in the Tour and the Giro."

High Road's Mark Cavendish likes to compare himself with McEwen. "He sprints a little bit in the way I do myself and his body is more or less similar, that's correct. But cavendish is thirteen years younger than I am and he isn't as pretty as I am," saida joking McEwen.
 
"That somebody with so much talent compares himself with me, honours me but that doesn't change the fact that most of all I want to beat Cavendish."
 
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