Ballan prepares for Roubaix

"It does not finish here," confirmed Alessandro Ballan to La Gazzetta dello Sport after winning Ronde van Vlaanderen. The 27 year-old rider from Castelfranco Veneto will skip Tomorrow's Gent-Wevelgem to focus on Sunday's Paris-Roubaix.

Lampre teammate and roommate, Fabio Baldato, advised Ballan to skip Gent-Wevelgem. "The best Roubaix I have raced has been when I skipped Gent-Wevelgem.