Last weekend, food poisoning weakened him and he dropped out of a one-day race in Washington.

"It's the biggest one-day race in the world," he said.

"It's a one-day race and there's always the chance I can win it," he said, almost defiantly.

His training was interrupted, the pain did not leave and he skipped two European one-day races.

It is the longest professional one-day race at 298 km.

He has won 13 multiday or one-day races this year.

It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands.

These are worth more points than other one-day races.

Between 1961 and 1977 he won at least 14 one-day races.

It's a long year and this is just a one-day race.