Stijn Devolder has won the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the last two years and will try to defend the title tomorrow. He would become only the fifth person to win it three times. His teammate Tom Boonen can achieve the […]
Yesterday VeloNation reported that Filippo Pozzato’s (Katusha) participation for this weekend’s Tour of Flanders was in doubt, but now the Italian national champion has confirmed the worst, he will not be present to contest Sunday’s event. The decision was taken […]
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won stage 3a of the Three Days of De Panne in a bunch sprint in the eponymous seaside town. He beat the Skil-Shimano pair of Robert Wagner and Kenny Van Hummel into second and third places. Farrar […]
Over the past few years Quick Step rider Sylvain Chavanel has shown himself to be a legitimate threat when it comes to the cobbled Classics. His journey to the north began with wins in the Dwars door Vlaanderen and Brabantse […]
David Millar (Garmin-Transitions) has taken victory in the final time trial stage of the Three Days of De Panne. His margin of victory was enough to secure the overall race win, his first stage race since the Tour de Picardie […]
Team RadioShack will be bringing seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong to the Tour of Flanders this weekend. His reason for adding Belgium’s biggest race to his schedule is to prepare for stage three of this year’s Tour de […]
2007 Ronde van Vlaanderen winner Alessandro Ballan (BMC Racing) has declared that he will be one of the contenders in Sunday’s race. “I’ll be ready,” he told Sporza. After a 2009 ruined by illness when he should have been showing […]
The HTC-Columbia team will again be riding for Austrian Bernhard Eisel this Sunday at the Tour of Flanders. Eisel rode to an impressive victory in Gent-Wevegem after acknowledging beforehand that he thought he had the form to win. “My condition […]
Bbox Bouygues Telecom continued their winning ways in stage two of the Three Days of De Panne today, when Frenchman Sébastien Turgot took the sprint in Sint-Idesbald easily over his three breakaway companions in a shortened stage marked by foul […]
OmegaPharma-Lotto’s three-time Ronde van Vlaanderen runner-up Leif Hoste approaches this Sunday’s race after some less than ideal preparation. The 32-year-old Belgian has been suffering from stomach flu and performing less than spectacularly at the Three Days of De Panne. He […]
Rabobank’s Nick Nuyens has recovered sufficiently from the injuries he sustained in Gent-Wevelgem, and will lead the Dutch team in this Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. Nuyens has had an unlucky classics season so far, suffering multiple punctures in the Omloop […]
Liquigas-Doimo’s classics captain Frederik Willems is now a doubt for Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen after suffering from pain in his knee. Starting the Three Days of De Panne with dossard number 1 as last year’s winner, the only Belgian on […]
Last year Filippo Pozzato was clearly one of the strongest riders in the Ronde van Vlaanderen, or Tour of Flanders, but some negative tactics saw him mark Tom Boonen very closely and allow the latter’s team-mate Stijn Devolder to race […]
Today Tour of Flanders favorite Tom Boonen (Quick Step) took the time to do a reconnaissance ride of this year’s route prior to the event this Sunday. He was joined by teammates Kevin De Weert, Maarten Wynants, Carlos Barredo and […]
Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen will be forced to miss the start in this weekend’s Tour of Flanders. The team said the Norwegian is still suffering from Achilles tendinitis, something that has caused him problems following the year’s first major […]
Bbox Bouygues Telecom’s Steve Chainel continued the 2010 renaissance of French cycling by winning the first stage of the Three Days of De Panne from a breakaway of seven. Chainel took the sprint in front of Italians Luca Paolini and […]
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 […]
With Philippe Gilbert’s third place finish at Sunday’s Gent-Wevelgem the Omega Pharma-Lotto team’s best result of the season by far; one might think that a little panic would be setting in. This is not the case, say the Belgian ProTour […]
