Boom gets himself an early birthday present

The brief return of Lars Boom (Rabobank) to the discipline of cyclo-cross will be long remembered. According to Boom, his participation in a couple of cyclo-cross races is only meant as build-up to his 2011 road season. During the sixth round of the UCI's World Cup in Zolder, Belgium, the Dutch champion impressed by beating current World Cup leader Niels Albert (Telenet-Fidea) and the rest of the cyclo-cross specialists.