Italian aiming to perform well in Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen Involved in a collision with Spanish champion Jose Joaquin Rojas in the finale of Gent-Wevelgem and prevented from taking what was a possible top ten placing in the prestigious Classic, […]
Tom Boonen seeks to join the immortals with third victory in Vlaanderens Mooiste While many of his teammates were riding the second stage of the Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde today, Omega Pharma-Quick Step’s Classics captain Tom Boonen was leading a reconnaissance […]
British champion joins the list of riders to watch in Sunday’s Vlaanderens Mooiste; 23-year-old staking claim to leadership of GB Olympic team Lizzie Armitstead’s victory in Sunday’s first ever women’s edition of the great Semi-Classic Gent-Wevelgem was her second of […]
Belgian champion not firing on all cylinders After another very quiet showing in yesterday’s Gent Wevelgem, the 2011 UCI WorldTour winner Philippe Gilbert appears to have given up hope of performing in one of his big targets of the year, […]
Slovakian and Italian rouleurs hoping that youthful enthusiasm can make up for relative lack of experience in big Belgian races Liquigas-Cannondale has announced its eight man team that will be heading to Flanders, northern Belgium, for the four big cobbled […]
Serious setback for Saxo Bank’s Classics captain after Paris-Nice time trial crash After first thinking that he had suffered no broken bones, after his crash in the wet opening time trial of Paris-Nice, Saxo Bank Nick Nuyens has since discovered […]
Doesn’t rule out charging to see race in the future Next to ASO and RCS Sport, Flanders Classics is considered the third largest race organisation, at least where importance is concerned. Among the races it organises are Omloop het Nieuwsblad, […]
Team psyched by admission to WorldTour Classic One month after allocating six of the wildcard places for the race, the Ronde van Vlaanderen organisers have awarded a seventh berth to the German NetApp team. The squad will join the eighteen […]
Pozzato gets another chance at victory with new team The Italian team Farnese Vini – Selle Italia had hoped that the signing of a name as big as Filippo Pozzato would result in some invitations to the biggest races of […]
Race organiser Flanders Classics has awarded wildcard spots to six Professional Continental teams for the Ronde van Vlaanderen – the Tour of Flanders – Het Nieuwsblad reports. The race, which will be held on April 1st this year, is part […]
Ronde van Vlaanderen winner explains how he is now able to push himself further than before Nick Nuyens (Saxo Bank-SunGard) had long been touted as a potential big Classic winner but, until this year, he was just unable to make […]
Team Sky’s spring captain preparing for his thirteenth season in the pro-peloton Team Sky’s Classics captain Juan Antonio Flecha is preparing himself for yet another season at the top level of the pro peloton. The 34-year-old Argentine-born Spaniard turned professional […]
Ronde van Vlaanderen winner will take a similar approach to his spring campaign, even though it means missing the start of the Belgian Classics Nick Nuyens is currently in Israel, at the first Saxo Bank team training camp of the […]
Danish rider hungry for success after difficult 2011 season Greatly frustrated by his injury-plagued 2011 season, Danish one-day specialist Matti Breschel is determined to get back on track as quickly as possible next year, and his psyched by that thought. […]
Oudenaarde’s Tour of Flanders visitor centre to be improved as the race finish moves to the town The Centrum Ronde van Vlaanderen has been awarded a €90,000 grant by Geert Bourgeois, the Flemish minister for Tourism, according to Het Laatste […]
Second edition of ASO event to take place the day after established Ronde van Vlaanderen ride With its first edition having been declared a resounding success last year, the Paris-Roubaix Challenge is set to return in 2012. The event, organised […]
The Flanders public appears to be dead set against the course change, but those involved have a more balanced view This week Flanders Classics, the organiser of the Ronde van Vlaanderen – the Tour of Flanders – announced that the […]
‘Vlaanderens Mooiste’ to finish with hilly and cobbled circuit; Muur-Kapelmuur completely overlooked After a year-long decision-making process Flanders Classics, the owner of the Ronde van Vlaanderen, has decided to award the finish of northern Belgium’s biggest one-day race to the […]
