Gert Steegmans is certainly proving his worth as a sprinter - not that we doubted that, having seen his explosive lead-out work for McEwen and Boonen in the past. He's done it again in the Circuit Franco-Belge with 2 wins and the overall (results via Cyclingnews.com):
1 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 16.58.00 2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) T-Mobile Team 0.04 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux 0.14 4 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom 0.16 5 Marco Marcato (Ita) Team L.P.R. 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 0.17 7 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.18 8 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 9 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 0.20 10 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic 0.21 11 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank 0.23 12 Hervé Duclos Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 13 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 14 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick.Step - Innergetic 15 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen 16 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 0.24 17 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 18 Aliaksandr Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance 0.25 19 Frédéric Gabriel (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 20 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.26
Plenty of Aussies in that list, too.
