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"My most beautiful sprint victory was actually achieved in the Tour." A retrospective on the career of three-time Tour winner Eric Leman

Eric Leman celebrates his 78th birthday in 2024. He certainly does not lack physical fitness. Leman still looks spry and sharp, and that's not by...

Luis Ocaña. El Merckx Espagñol

9 June 1945. Luis Ocaña is born. The eccentric rider is still known as the challenger to Eddy Merckx in the Tour. His palmares include two overall...

Luis Ocana during the Tour de France 1976

Hurra por Luis!

Frans Verbeeck after his victory in the Omloop het Volk (1970)

"I delivered cream in the morning and in the afternoon I won the Omloop,” Frans Verbeeck on Monseré, the 'fight' with Merckx and the work-cycling combination

'The cycling milkman', 'the soup' and 'the Flemish Poulidor'. Three nicknames of former cycling champion Frans Verbeeck (81), each with their own...

Symbol of a real revolution. The La Course bike of Marianne Vos

"Mum, that's the lady from the Kruidvat, isn't it?" A portrait of Dutch cycling legend Leontien van Moorsel.

With the Tour de France Femmes, in the summer of 2022 a full-fledged Tour for women will be held again. In eight stages, the riders cover more than...

Jacques Goddet before the start of a stage in the Tour de France (1962)

Jacques Goddet (1905-2000). More than just director of the Tour de France

One week before the start of the 109th edition of the Tour de France, KOERS organised an evening of talks about the Tour. Thomas Brochut-Goddet,...

Racing like Eddy!

15 September 2018, 20th stage of the Vuelta, Collada de la Gallina (Santuario de Canolich), Andorra

20 years of Quick-Step in the Grand Tours. When blue turns into yellow, pink or red

"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...

2 April 2017, Tour of Flanders, Oudenaarde

Winning is... everything. The history of the Wolfpack in 20 stages

Greg LeMond during the Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1984).

Greg Lemond. American Tour winner, made in Marke

In his most successful years American cyclist Greg LeMond lived in the far south of West Flanders, a proverbial stone's throw from the...

Stairway to Heaven. With Joanne Simpson on a pilgrimage to the sacred Mont Ventoux

There is a lady who is sure that all that glitters is gold and she buys a stairway to heaven... Joanne Simpson is that lady's name and since 2007...

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