"Whether I won the Tour de France for women? To be honest, I still don't know." Heidi Van De Vijver, Belgium's top cyclist in the 1990s, is still...
Marianne Vos. Fanatical voracious. Sympathetic and endearing. And a cycling icon against all odds. A conversation about Eddy's pedestal, Jeannie's...
It has to be virgin white, the white of a cyclist's rainbow jersey (sometimes even blessed). When I became a junior world champion in 2004 in...
Tom Boonen was 24 years old when he won his first Crystal Bike Trophy in 2004. He went on to take the award for the best Belgian rider of the...
Would Luis Ocaña be a real challenger to Eddy Merckx? It looked like it during the 1971 Tour, after he won the Orcières-Merlette stage, almost nine...
The 1950 Tour de France was still being contested by national teams, which also had a classification. Italy failed to hold on to its own title as...
Charles Verkeyn was born in Bredene, but his horizons soon extended beyond the North Sea. As a teenager he moved to Paris, where he became a...
Timothy Dupont won a historic race when he beat Colombian Gaviria and Dutchman Kreder on 16 September 2016. This was the 101st outing for the...
Tom Boonen had four E3 Prijs victories to his credit in early 2012, to make him joint record holder with another rider from Kempen, Rik Van Looy....
When Jasper Stuyven crossed the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne finishing line as the winner, he pointed at the sky. He was thinking of his late...