Yesterday the Quick Step team completed their traditional reconnaissance of the Paris-Roubaix route. The riders who are taking part in the race rode 85 kilometres of the parcours starting with the 17th sector of cobbles, the Troueé d’Arenberg, and finishing […]
Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) and Tom Boonen (Quick Step) are the most obvious favourites for tomorrow’s Paris-Roubaix Classic but, behind the two past winners, there are a large number of other riders who could be fighting it out at the […]
The 108th edition of Paris-Roubaix is set to take place this Sunday and, after his dominating performance in the Tour of Flanders last week, former winner Fabian Cancellara from the Saxo Bank team will be seen by many as the […]
Roger de Vlaeminck is the record holder in Paris-Roubaix, with four wins to his credit. As tough as the Belgian was on the cobbles in the “Hell of the North”, is as outspoken as he is about the chances of […]
HTC-Columbia have announced that Gent-Wevelgem winner Bernhard Eisel will be the sole leader for the team at this weekend’s Paris-Roubaix. The American team is sending an experienced squad to support the Austrian in cycling’s toughest one day Classic. “Everybody bar […]
The Rabobank team has announced its eight-man squad for Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix, naming an all-Dutch line up. The team has named two 24-year-olds as captains for the race in former World cyclocross champion Lars Boom and Sebastian Langeveld. Both were strong […]
Dutchman Servais Knaven will take the start of Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix with the chance of equaling the record of 16 finishes in the race held by Belgian Raymond Impanis. Knaven won the race in 2001 while riding in the service of […]
Quick Step’s Tom Boonen and Stijn Devolder will be equipped with new Merckx bikes for Paris-Roubaix this Sunday in an effort to give them every possible advantage in this year’s “Hell of the North”. The rest of the team is […]
Despite making some initial progress with respect to his Achilles tendon injury, Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen will be forced to miss this Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. Initially the team had hoped that their decision for him to skip last weekend’s Tour […]
After Fabian Cancellara powered to victory over Tom Boonen in yesterday’s Tour of Flanders, Quick Step team boss Patrick Lefevere has made his first tactical decision for next Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. He’s decided not to start last year’s eighth place finisher […]
Disappointed to take second and third in yesterday’s Tour of Flanders, both Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert are looking to the later Spring Classics in hope that they can each take a big win. Boonen was attempting yesterday to take […]
Cervélo TestTeam has announced today that Heinrich Haussler will be unable to ride in the classics this spring due to problems with his knee. The 26 year old had an impressive string of results last year at this time, including […]
Cervélo TestTeam’s Heinrich Haussler was the revelation of last year’s classics season, but is being forced to sit out the next few races as he recovers from a knee problem. The Australian/German crashed out of stage 4 of the Volta […]
Astana team manager, Yvon Sanquer, had agreed to waive the ProTour team’s right to participate in Paris-Roubaix this April. The team announced that they had previously discussed the situation with race organizers, the Amaury Sports Organization, and wanted to clarify […]
Paris-Roubaix organizers the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) have announced the list of twenty-five teams who will contest the 108th edition of the race on April 12th. Two of the eighteen ProTOur teams were not invited, the Astana team of two-time […]
With Fabian Cancellara’s strong end to the 2009 season, it’s easy to forget that last year at this time the reigning time trial World Champion was struggling to find any semblance of form. He began his season at the Tour […]
RadioShack sprinter Gert Steegmans has been operated on for the broken collarbone he sustained in the Paris-Nice prologue. Just one day afterwards he held a press conference to talk about his immediate plans. “It’s a lot better,” he said of […]
The Mayor of Baisieux and Paris-Roubaix organizers have come to an agreement that will see the Carrefour de l’Arbre continue to be part of the race this April. Following last year’s event Mayor Francis Delrue, passed a bylaw prohibiting the […]
