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Luca Paolini rides aggressively to seventh in Flanders

by Kyle Moore - Monday, April 2, 2012
Katusha rider tried several escapes before taking top ten finish

Riding his best spring campaign in some time, Luca Paolini (Katusha) built on previous good results in the one-day Classics, coming home in seventh place at the Tour of Flanders. Having worked tirelessly in support of team-mate Oscar Freire in la... → Read More


Pozzato disappointed to lose, but pleased to ride strongly once again

by VeloNation Press - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Did Italian make a tactical error in the Ronde Van Vlaanderen finale?

Disappointed not to succeed in his goal of winning the Ronde Van Vlaanderen, Filippo Pozzato has chosen to focus on the positive and says that he comes away from the race with more plusses than minuses. The Italian was arguably the strongest ride... → Read More


Matti Breschel: “I didn’t have the power”

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Danish rider returns to the Ronde van Vlaanderen but can do nothing about the decisive break

After a torrid 2011, dominated by a knee injury that he picked up in the previous year’s Paris-Roubaix, Matti Breschel (Rabobank) is steadily making his return to the sharp end of the peloton. The former Danish champion was forced to sit out all of ... → Read More


Heinrich Haussler: “The race didn’t go to plan for Garmin-Barracuda”

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Australian reflects on an unlucky day for the Argyle team, but admits that they “didn’t have the legs” on tough new Ronde course

Garmin-Barracuda started the Ronde van Vlaanderen with the confidence gained from Sep Vanmarcke’s victory in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in February. The American team was putting its support behind the 23-year-old Belgian, and his bid to become the y... → Read More


Leipheimer hit by car, out of Vuelta al Pais Vasco

by VeloNation Press - Sunday, April 1, 2012
‘I’m lucky to be alive’ says American

On a day when his Omega Pharma Quick Step team celebrated Tom Boonen’s win in the Tour of Flanders, an incident involving Levi Leipheimer put a sobering slant on things. The American rider was the victim of a collision with a car being hit from b... → Read More


Tom Boonen: “Maybe in the shower it will start to sink in”

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Belgian joins the greats with third Ronde van Vlaanderen victory; new course is not harder, just different

Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) joined the greats of Flemish cycling with his third victory in the Ronde van Vlaanderen today. In a season of records - where he has already become the outright highest winner in the E3 Prijs, with five, and join... → Read More


Cancellara’s Classics season over due to shattered collarbone

by VeloNation Press - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Langeveld also facing sidelines due to similar injury

Classics favourite Fabian Cancellara’s chance of winning next week’s Paris-Roubaix has gone the same way as his Tour of Flanders ambitions, with a bad crash in the feedzone of today’s Classic putting paid to both of those goals. Cancellara appea... → Read More


Third Ronde Van Vlaanderen success for Belgium’s Boonen

by Shane Stokes - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Pozzato and Ballan forced to settle for second and third in sprint

Belgian favourite Tom Boonen rocketed to his third Ronde Van Vlaanderen finish in Oudenaarde today, winning a three man sprint at the end of reinvented Classic. The Omega Pharma Quick Step rider continued his superb season by outsprinting Filippo Poz... → Read More


Judith Arndt wins her second Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, April 1, 2012
World time trial champion outsprints Kristen Armstrong in identical one-two to 2008 race

Judith Arndt (GreenEdge-AIS) has won her second Ronde van Vlaanderen, four years after her first, in an identical two-up sprint with Kristin Armstrong (United States). The two riders escaped on the long, cobbled climb of the Oude Kwaremont, after an ... → Read More


Cancellara: I’m not scared of anyone

by VeloNation Press - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Former race winner confidence about his chances in Ronde Van Vlaanderen

Although some feel that there’s a lot of pressure on his shoulders after riding well but missing out on the win in a number of races this year, Milan-Sanremo and Gent-Wevelgem included, Fabian Cancellara was relaxed at the start line of the Ronde Van... → Read More


Absence of Marianne Vos means a very different women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, April 1, 2012
World number one sick with flu; more onus on other teams to make the race

One thing that was universally agreed on the start line of the Ronde van Vlaanderen voor Vrouen - the Tour of Flanders for women - in Oudenaarde this morning: the absence of World number one Marianne Vos (Rabobank) will make for a very different race... → Read More


Boonen: Cancellara isn’t the only rival in Flanders

by VeloNation Press - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Belgian ready for major battle on new race course

Many are calling tomorrow’s Ronde Van Vlaanderen as being a likely showdown between Tom Boonen and RadioShack Nissan’s Fabian Cancellara, but the Belgian is adamant that there will be other riders who will be in the running for victory. While the du... → Read More


Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg continues to impress in Tour du Maroc

by Xylon van Eyck - Saturday, March 31, 2012
MTN-Qhubeka dominating African race with seven stage victories

Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg has started his season off where he left it last year with great results. The South African won a stage in the Herald Sun Tour towards the end of last season then followed it up by second place overall in the Tour of Hana... → Read More


Peter Sagan and Daniel Oss confident of form ahead of Ronde van Vlaanderen

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Liquigas-Cannondale duo looking forward to tomorrow’s big race

After a successful and aggressive opening to their Flemish campaign, Liquigas-Cannondale’s Peter Sagan and Daniel Oss are heading into tomorrow’s Ronde van Vlaanderen with confidence. Oss has been in countless attacks, while Sagan came second in las... → Read More


Rabobank to assess Van der Vorst situation after new twist to comeback story

by Shane Stokes - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Dutchwoman now says she was previously able to stand prior to ‘miracle recovery’

The Rabobank cycling team has said that it will sit down with Monique Van der Vorst and work out her future plans after a peculiar twist in the story which captivated the attention of the media and public in the Netherlands and further afield.The 27 ... → Read More


Double day for Katusha with wins on Spain and the Netherlands

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Dani Moreno and Pavel Brutt score for Russian squad in opposite ends of Europe

The Katusha team scored a double day on the eve of the Ronde van Vlaanderen, as Pavel Brutt’s victory in the Limburg Classic was followed moments later by Dani Moreno’s in the GP Miguel Indurain. Both victories came as a result of breakaways, as Bru... → Read More


Marianne Vos withdraws from Ronde van Vlaanderen through illness

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, March 31, 2012
World Cup leader replaced by Sarah Düster in spring’s biggest race

Marianne Vos (Rabobank) has withdrawn from tomorrow morning’s Ronde van Vlaanderen through illness, her team has announced. The Dutch champion, who has won the first two races of the World Cup so far this year - the Ronde van Drenthe and the Trofeo ... → Read More


Bobbie Traksel withdraws from Flanders but predicts winner

by Xylon van Eyck - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Dutchman names two ‘second line’ riders as his big tips

Bobbie Traksel has had to withdraw from starting Tour of Flanders on the eve of the race on the advice from the team doctor. The Landbouwkrediet – Euphony rider is a former winner of the under 23 version of the race and had high hopes for this year a... → Read More


Dan Martin Interview: Big ambitions for the Ardennes Classics

by Shane Stokes - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Garmin Barracuda rider takes more laid-back approach to Indurain and Pais Vasco

Following on from a strong fourth place overall in the Volta a Catalunya, Dan Martin is back in action in today’s GP Miguel Indurain, and again from Monday onwards when he will compete in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco. The Irishman will be part of a ... → Read More


Transformed Ronde van Vlaanderen prepares for new Oudenaarde finish

by Ben Atkins - Friday, March 30, 2012
Oude Kwaremont and Paterberg circuits to make toughest course in race’s history

Sunday will see the most radically different Ronde van Vlaanderen course since its finish moved to Meerbeke in 1973. With its switch to Oudenaarde, in the heart of the Flemish Ardennes, and with the majority of the region’s most famous climbs on its... → Read More

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