The sponsors said they want to invest in the team when the results come. The team still hopes to get a start permit for the Giro. It would be great for our team to be there. The forecast for this weekend's Omloop Het Volk doesn't look promising. Wintry showers are forecast for the rest of the week and Saturday, and while it's hard to predict Northern European winter weather four days in advance, it's pretty certain Sunday's Het Volk won't be held under blue Spring skies.
Snow is even a possibility.
A race this early in the year is always vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather, and Het Volk has twice been cancelled because of bad conditions. In 1986 the decision to cancel was made at 5 am Saturday because of the snow. There was no race that year because the 1971 rescheduling was a hell of a job that the organisers chose not to repeat. And I had a call from the Garda lake in Italy. Tchmil trained in the morning, but on Wednesday afternoon it started snowing, so we have to change his training schedule.