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A Belgian shut-out: it has been over 100 years since the feat was last achieved, 103 actually. Belgium drew a complete blank in the nine critical early season classics. Spaniard Juan Antonio Flecha started the Classics season with a win […]

With Tom Boonen being unable to achieve his goal of winning Milan-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix, the Belgian publics’ focus will turn to Philippe Gilbert for the upcoming Ardennes Classics. They will be hoping that the Omega Pharma […]

Two crashes in Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix have put a temporary stop to the spring campaign of two-time Ronde van Vlaanderen winner Stijn Devolder of Quick Step. An injury to his left knee, sustained in one of those crashes, means that the […]

Perhaps the greatest compliment in the sport of cycling is to be compared to Eddy Merckx and when it is Merckx himself making the comparisons, the plaudit is even more deserved. The Belgian was clearly impressed with the dominance shown […]

Three-time Grand Tour winner, Denis Menchov, will resume his 2010 campaign with this week’s five-day stage race, the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. Menchov has been absent from racing for three weeks now after withdrawing from the Vuelta a Catalunya […]

Cofidis rider Sébastien Minard won the French semi-Classic Paris-Camembert today, the third race in the Coupe de France series.  The Frenchman took his win out of a breakaway over compatriot Maxime Médérel (BigMat-Auber 93).  The duo made their decisive move […]

There isn’t a team in the world like it: Euskaltel-Euskadi. The team serves as an unofficial Basque national team, receives funding from the Basque government, and employs almost entirely native Basques, with star Samuel Sanchez as the notable exception. The […]

Robert Gesink will lead the Dutch Rabobank team to its home classic, the Amstel Gold, on Sunday. The 23-year-old will be hoping to improve on his third place of last year, building on the good form he showed in last […]

Giovanni Visconti (ISD-Neri) won the 166km stage 3 of the Tour of Turkey between Bodrum and Marmaris. The former Italian champion was the fastest of an audacious breakaway group of five riders that escaped on the final climb with 10km […]

Servais Knaven, who announced his retirement earlier this week, has confirmed that he will be staying with the Milram team as a sports director. His last race will be the Etten-Leur on August 15th, which takes place near his home […]