Tour de France fifth place finds the weight of a cycling-crazy nation quite heavy OmegaPharma-Lotto’s Jurgen Van Den Broeck is coming to terms with what it means to achieve the best Belgian Tour de France finish in a generation. His […]
Starts this week at Eneco Tour, but team’s future still uncertain Former Paris-Roubaix winner Servais Knaven has quickly moved on to the next stage of his career and will take up a role as directeur sportif with the Milram team. […]
Strong team fielded for ProTour race The American ProTour team HTC Columbia has already taken a staggering 47 victories this season, but aims to bring that victory towards – or even past – the magical 50-win barrier in the Eneco […]
The course of the 2010 edition of the Eneco Tour has been announced; presenting a course, which organisers hope, will offer something for everyone. “The course of this year provides an exciting race,” said race director Rob Discart, “but it […]
The town of Steenwijk, in the province of Overijssel in the north east of the Netherlands will play host to the start of this year’s Eneco Tour, the race organiser announced today. The race will start with a 5km prologue […]
Frank Shleck will not be at the start of Wednesday’s stage 11 in the Vuelta A Espana. The Luxemburger from Team Saxo Bank will be operated on his injured knee on Friday, forcing him to miss the World Championships that […]
Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen of the Columbia team won the Eneco Tour on Tuesday after dominating the final stage, a 13km individual time-trial. The 22-year-old finished ahead of France’s Sylvain Chavanel in the overall standings after the Frenchman clocked the […]
Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen consolidated his lead of the Eneco Tour stage race by beating some of the more specialist fast men in a sprint for the finish of Monday’s sixth stage. Boasson Hagen, who rides for Team Columbia, grabbed […]
Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Doimo) broke his left collarbone in the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour today, ending his chances for overall victory in the Vuelta later this month, and likely his spot on the Italian team for the world championships […]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team retained the overall lead of the Eneco Tour by winning the race’s fourth stage after a sprint battle with Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen and Italian Francesco Gavazzi. It is Farrar’s third win of […]
Quick-Step sprinter Tom Boonen enjoyed his first victory since winning the Belgian national championships on home roads in the 158.3 kilometer third stage of the Eneco Tour from Niel to Hasselt. Boonen blasted out of the last curve in perfect position, […]
Andreas Klöden (Astana) was thought to have broken his wrist yesterday in a crash during stage two of the Eneco Tour. After further examination in Switzerland it was revealed that the 34-year-old’s injury is not as severe as initially thought. […]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team continued his string of successes today by winning the 178.1 kilometer second stage of the Eneco Tour from Ardooie to Brussels. Farrar got the better of Belarusan Yauheni Hutarovich (Française Des Jeux ) […]
After a promising start to the year, Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere is frustrated with the development of his young Belgian Wouter Weylandt. Lefevere told Nieuwsblad.be that “he had expected more” from the promising young rider when questioned about his absence […]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team won the 185km first stage of the Eneco Tour on Wednesday taking the overall race lead from yesterday’s prologue winner Sylvain Chavanel. “I’m in the best form of my life. The team was […]
Sylvain Chavanel, who rides for the Belgian Quick-Step team, won the opening prologue of the Eneco Tour covering the 4.4 kilometer route through Rotterdam in 4 minutes and 55 seconds. Second place went to the winner of Sunday’s Vattenfall Cyclassics, […]
