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...
It took a long time before the United States could claim a role in the global development of cycling. There had always been love for cycling, but...
Thorough historical research can give a kick. Especially when you find a quote that calls into question decades of historiographical glorification...
At a world championship, participants distinguish themselves by wearing country-specific jerseys that refer to the colours of the national flag or...
Leicester, August 1970. The 21-year-old from Roeselare, Jean-Pierre Monseré, outsmarts his opponents at the world cycling championships and becomes...
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