Guillaume Van Keirsbulck currently rides for Alpecin-Fenix, but started his career with QuickStep.
Van Keirsbulck drove for QuickStep from 2010 to 2016, but in retrospect he really shouldn’t have done that. “I would not have made my professional debut at Quick-Step, but would have chosen a team like Topsport Vlaanderen,” Van Keirsbulck told the Krant van West-Vlaanderen.
“Now when I was 19 I ended up with the best team in the world. Everything was possible and everything was allowed. While I should have fought for my position in the peloton at Topsport, I was always at the front in my Quick-Step jersey and the rest crawled into my wheel.”
The comparison with Tom Boonen cropped up time and again. “With Tom Boonen, we won where we started. It was too easy. And then they also said that I was the new Tom Boonen. In the long run I started to believe that myself, while as a young guy it’s not good to be fooled like that. You must learn to fight for what you are worth. Yves Lampaert did it that way and I still believe it’s the best way.”
