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 […]
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 […]
Grace Verbeke took out a solo win in the women’s Tour of Flanders, held on a shortened route over many of the same climbs as the men’s race. Marianne Vos sprinted past a small group of riders to finish second, […]
Yesterday Lorenzo Bernucci’s team, Lampre-Farnese Vini, said the rider would be a non-starter for today’s Ronde Van Vlaanderen due to illness. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, there are more pressing matters that forced the Italian to head back to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Bouygues Telecom pair Steve Chainel and Sébastien Turgot had an outstanding Driedaagse de Panne-Koksijde and both Frenchmen are now looking ahead to Flanders’ nicest – the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Both are confident for a good result in the grueling […]
There is a question mark over the participation of Filippo Pozzato in this weekend’s Tour of Flanders, with the Italian road race champion being hit by flu just days before the start. According to Sporza.be, the former Milan-Sanremo victor fell […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
