"We will do everything we can to win the Tour de France with a Belgian in the coming six years." That's what Patrick Lefevere says in 2021 when...
2017 was the third consecutive year that I had been at the start of the Giro d'Italia. Two years earlier I had won one stage and in the 2016...
It was in the early fifties. I was not yet born, but I heard the story several times. And Rik Van Looy can confirm it. My father, Dries Claes, had...
The Tour of Flanders. For many riders an elusive dream, for a few the pinnacle of their career. Stijn Devolder belongs to that second group. In...
Perhaps it’s only logical that in 30 years working as an international news correspondent and a cycling correspondent, at one point or another this...
Despite his 'retirement', cycling still dominates Patrick Lefevere's daily life. The West-Fleming has more than fifty years of cycling under his...
What do the athletics decathlon and heptathlon, modern pentathlon (fencing, swimming, horse jumping, shooting and athletics) and triathlon have in...
When he wasn't throwing beers around or sneaking out to go dancing at discos, Jean-Pierre Monseré was beating Merckx, De Vlaeminck and company. The...
In the spring of 2020, a KOERS delegation travelled to the south of France to collect the cycling collection of collector Claude Lachot. This...
In his most successful years American cyclist Greg LeMond lived in the far south of West Flanders, a proverbial stone's throw from the...