Confident Ballan arrives in Belgium after strong Milan-San Remo 2011 showing

Alessandro Ballan (BMC) arrived in Belgium on Tuesday ahead of the cobbled classics and the former world champion is confident that he is back to the kind of form that saw him win the Tour of Flanders in 2007. Ballan finished in 4th place at Saturday’s Milan-San Remo 2011, where he had ample opportunity to measure himself against his principal rivals for glory in the coming weeks.

Barry Ryan
Head of Features

Barry Ryan is Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation, published by Gill Books.