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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The HTC-Columbia women’s team is ready to go for their third consecutive Tour of Flanders victory this coming Sunday in Belgium. Judith Arndt and Ina-Yoko Teutenberg took home the honors in 2008 and 2009 respectively, and after a strong start […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rabobank classics specialist Nick Nuyens has had a spring full of ups and downs so far this season, and he’s now on a down trend again with his participation in the Tour of Flanders this weekend in doubt. Nuyens opened […]
Last week Quick Step’s Stijn Devolder was called out in the press by team manager Patrick Levfevere for his lack of results so far this season. The Belgian’s best finish in 2010 has been his 40th place in this past […]
The five big Flemish races of the season so far have all been won by non-Belgians for the first time in history, but this is no disgrace says former coach turned TV commentator José De Cauwer to Sporza. The Omloop […]
Former Belgian national coach Jose De Cauwer made comments yesterday on Sporza during Dwars door Vlaanderen that has the signalmen scheduled to work the Tour of Flanders up in arms. De Cauwer complained that the signalers weren’t doing a proper […]
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 […]
Organizers of the Tour of Flanders have announced the teams that will participate in the 94th edition of the event on Sunday April 4th. This year’s edition of the race will not only be important for riders targeting the the […]
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 […]
Stijn Devolder is relieved that he performed well in Sunday’s Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne and that his off-day in Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was just a fluke. He was much more relaxed on Sunday evening than 24 hours prior. While he didn’t finish […]
The French Cofidis team has been refused an invitation to two of Belgium’s biggest races, Gent-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders. According to Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique, the team believes this is a direct consequence of their relegation from […]
Less than two weeks after suffering a broken collarbone at the Tour of Qatar, Team Sky’s Kurt Asle Arvesen is hopeful that he’ll be back to racing in time to take the start in two of the team’s big targets, […]
With the Belgian racing calendar’s opening weekend fast approaching, the riders targeting the Spring Classics have already been hard at work building up their form. For the past two years the Belgians have dominated the Cobbled Classics winning both Paris-Roubaix […]
The route of the 2010 Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) was presented in Gent, Belgium yesterday. This year’s race will cover 262km, climbing 15 hills, between Brugge (Bruges) and Meerbeke. As is usual the opening kilometres differ from last […]
