The hits keep coming for Ottawa\u2019s Carter Deveer. He\u2019s been having a great spring with his new team, Cannibal-Victorious, the feeder team for WorldTour squad Bahrain-Victorius. The past few days he\u2019s been riding the 3-day stage race, the Ster van Zuid-Limburg<\/p>\n
Vic De Smet took the overall lead heading into the final stage of the 47th edition after a razor-thin 6.8km time trial in St.-Truiden, edging Lars Franken by less than a second and leader Karl Herzog by seven.<\/p>\n
De Smet started Monday\u2019s 120km finale with a 6-second advantage over Herzog and 14 over teammate Simon Defrance, giving the junior team of Soudal-Quick Step three riders in contention.<\/p>\n
Final stage<\/p>\n
On Stage 3a from Wellen to Wellen (93.7km), Deveer finished a close second and moved up to third overall. \u201cAfter the first two stages, the GC was getting out of reach for the team, so the plan was to get in the breakaway and try for yellow,\u201d Deveer said. \u201cI followed a move around halfway and counterattacked when it slowed. I was solo for about 10 minutes before three riders bridged to me. We had over a minute at one point, and my teammates did a great job disrupting the chase. In the end, I was a close second in the sprint and nearly missed yellow by three seconds, with the bunch eight seconds behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the TT where he finished 47th, dropped him out of the top-10.<\/p>\n