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 […]
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won the Scheldeprijs race in a bunch sprint in Schoten, on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Antwerp. He beat Robbie McEwen (Katusha) and Robert Förster (Milram) into second and third place to become the first […]
In an indication of cycling’s ongoing popularity in Belgium, a record number of viewers tuned in to watch Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen go head to head in Sunday’s Tour of Flanders. The average audience for the live broadcast 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 […]
Despite a solid showing in the Tour of Flanders on Sunday, Lance Armstrong has reportedly dropped three scheduled Spring Classics from his racing programme. According to Belgian media, the 38 year old Texan will now not compete in the Amstel […]
Initially disappointed at having missed out on victory in Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen, World Cup leader Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) was nevertheless philosophical about what might have been after coming down at the race’s mid point after a spectator got […]
British one-day Classic specialist Roger Hammond went into yesterday’s Tour of Flanders aiming to help Thor Hushovd in the race but with the big Norwegian coming up short due to illness and a lack of racing, the Briton was given […]
He was disappointing on day one of Criterium International but Lance Armstrong was a lot more satisfied with his performance after yesterday’s Tour of Flanders. The Team RadioShack captain was very active in the second half of the race and […]
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 […]
With the Saxo Bank team’s spring season having been largely successful so far, team boss Bjarne Riis is now looking to his biggest stars, the Schleck brothers, to start to show themselves. Swiss champion Fabian Cancellara’s Ronde van Vlaanderen victory […]
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 […]
RadioShack’s captain Lance Armstrong rode the Tour of Flanders today as part of his preparation for July’s Tour de France and, while many doubted his intentions to ride hard in Belgium’s biggest race, the American quieted his detractors by putting […]
Two of the strongest riders on the roads of the Tour of Flanders simply rode away from the peloton on the Molenberg, with Fabian Cancellara then demolishing Tom Boonen on the Muur van Geraardsbergen. Philippe Gilbert and Björn Leukemans finished […]
Even though Fabian Cancellara took a brilliant win in today’s Tour of Flanders, there were still some choice words from the Saxo Bank camp following the race. Danish champion Matti Breschel and eventual winner Cancellara were both faced with brake […]
Alessandro Ballan (winner in 2007), George Hincapie, Marcus Burghardt and Karsten Kroon will lead the BMC team in today’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. Not a bad line-up to have for the Belgian classic. Or are there too many leaders? No, says […]
This Sunday’s Tour of Flanders will mark the second Classic of the 2010 season and, like Milan-Sanremo, the list of possible winners is long and distinguished. This year’s course offers up some changes from last year’s edition, namely the omission […]
