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‘You never want something like that,’ added Guercilena. ‘You think, it will never happen to me, but, unfortunately, it happened to us. We honoured him and the guys did something special today. His father asked us to do it. He will probably pass the hotel this evening to say thanks to the riders.’

Cancellara, the sport’s most versatile rider in recent years, has many objectives for 2011. There are the classics like the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix that I would of course like to win again (he won both in 2010), but the race I’d most like to win this year is at the end of the season. It’s the world championships.