Stories

In the end, her relentless drive was possibly what killed Beryl Burton, but during her lifetime it is also what defined her. Even as a schoolgirl...

With the first official, UCI-recognised world championship for women in 1958, (international) women's cycling faced a turning point. One year...

Ypres is increasingly profiling itself as a cycling city. In the spring of 2014 a first step was already taken by the presentation of the...

Paris–Roubaix, April 11, 2004. At 38, Belgian cycling legend Johan “The Lion of Flanders” Museeuw is at the start of his final classic. Three days...

Somewhere over the rainbow is where my father is hidden ... I think ... because my father and the rainbow are connected to each other. I do not...

A quiet, sunny day on 9 May 2011. I decided not to listen to the Sporza sports channel while I was at work. I had to concentrate and I had also...

I interviewed Rudi Altig twice, at his home in Sinzig, a fleck on the greenery somewhere between Cologne and Koblenz. From the living room window,...

There was good news and bad news. The sports editor said he wanted to hear the good news first. The good news was that we had just had our all-time...

Fabian Cancellara. Swiss by birth, Flandrien by choice. I heard him say it many times, how much he wanted to know what it would feel like to be a...

So, there he was, sitting at his stand all, set up for the occasion in an E. Leclerc store in Chantonnay, in the Vendée Department. Raymond...

"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...