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Ten photos that didn't quite make my VeloNews.com photo essay from a glorious day on the Koppenberg.

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Every week I take dozens of photos I can't use in my VeloNews photo essay, so every week I'm posting the outtakes on this site. Here are ten photos from the Valkenburg World Cup that I liked, but just didn't fit for one reason or another.

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It was a really hard one. When I did the first three laps at my maximum, the lap after I had to recover and it was very difficult.

Second place finisher Mathieu van der Poel after Sunday's race in Ronse.

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Mathieu van der Poel, youngest man in the race at 19, on the start line in Ronse.

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It was really hard for me, I suffered a lot, but actually I had a pretty good start and, so, okay, I stay there. But the running part, there I suffered really a lot, because the legs are really not ready for running. And when you have to pace every time during the race and then the running, that was killing my legs. It was two times of a really steep climb, and that’s really killing the legs. But, okay, I had fun actually.

World Champion Zdenek Stybar on his day in Ronse.

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I can't use every photo I shoot in my VeloNews photo essays, but every week I rescue a few from the cutting room floor and share my outtakes. Here's the G.P. Mario De Clercq in Ronse in ten images.

See the original photo essay on VeloNews.com.