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Greg Van Avermaet recovering well after surgery

Greg Van Avermaet was one of four riders from BMC Racing Team forced out of the Tour of Flanders yesterday after crashing heavily. Michael Schaer, Marcus Burghardt and Manuel Quinziato also had to abandon. Van Avermaet suffered a displaced fracture of the right collarbone and underwent surgery today in Belgium. The team's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Max Testa has provided the...

Etixx-Quick Step to support Dan Martin at Vuelta al Pais Vasco

Etixx-Quick Step will line up at the Vuelta al Pais Vasco next week with the aim of supporting in-form Irish rider Dan Martin. The 56th edition of the race starts today with a route that's suited to strong climbers. There will be no easing into the race as the first stage from Etxebarria to Markina-Xemein will feature eight categorised climbs...

Emotional ninth place for Dimitri Claeys in Tour of Flanders

After a very tough week, Wanty-Groupe Gobert lined up for the Tour of Flanders with Frederik Backaert, Dimitri Claeys, Björn Thurau, Tom Devriendt, Marco Marcato, Jérôme Baugnies, Kenny Dehaes and Kévin Van Melsen. Following on from a minute's silence and applause from the crowd at a packed Bruges Market Square for Antoine Demoitié, Wanty-Groupe Gobert reacted with a fitting salute...

Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) won the Tour of Flanders in style today, taking the win after breaking away on his own on the Paterberg 15km from the finish. The World Champion took his first Monument victory, finishing an exceptionally tough race twenty-five seconds ahead of his rivals. The World Champion dedicated his win to Antoine Demoitié and Daan Myngheer, the Belgian...

Mechanic gets knocked over by team car at Tour of Flanders (VIDEO)

Yet another incident has taken place today involving a race vehicle at a bike race whereby a mechanic was knocked over by a team car at the Tour of Flanders. The incident took place following a crash in the peloton whereby numerous mechanics had been attending fallen riders. An Etixx-Quick Step car then collided with one of the mechanics, pushing...

IAM Cycling – It’s Cobble Season (VIDEO)

Team IAM Cycling have produced a video showing their final preparations for the cobbled classics with the Tour of Flanders taking place today and Paris-Roubaix next Sunday. “The Spring Classics mean everything to me,” said Heinrich Haussler “They are more important to me than anything else. More important than the world championships, more important than the Tour de France.” Haussler finished...

Eddy Merckx and his experiences of The Tour of Flanders (VIDEO)

By 1969, Eddy Merckx had taken victories in the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Milan-San Remo, Fleche Wallonne, Gent-Wevelgem and Paris-Roubaix amongst other races. However, one race which had eluded him was the Tour of Flanders. That was to change in 1969 though. He had gone into the race as the clear favourite having won both the Vuelta a Levante...

Jack Wilson and David Montgomery to line up at Volta Limburg Classic

The season rolls on for An Post Chain Reaction squad as they prepare for the Dutch one day race, Volta Limburg Classic (UCI 1.1) this Saturday, 2nd of April. Irish duo Jack Wilson and David Montgomery are both named as part of a strong An Post contingent with Jacob Scott (GB), Calvin Watson (AUS), Jasper Bovenhuis (NED) and Belgian...

Australian National Team and Danish Riwal Platform Squads to Send Strong Selections to An Post Rás

Following on from last week’s announcement of the first two teams to be announced for this year’s An Post Rás, the Australian Continental squad Cisco RT and the American CCB International squad, two more international outfits have confirmed their participation. The UCI world-ranked race will include the Australian national team and the UCI Continental-level Riwal Platform squad from Denmark....

Cyclists come to the rescue of stranded team-mate.

When Dutch rider Maarten de Jonge punctured whilst out on a training spin in Thailand, his team came to the rescue by hauling him and his bike to their hotel. And it seems it was no easy task. They still had 10 kilometres left to cycle in 44 degrees Celsius heat. In addition, De Jonge indicated that he weighs 85...

Ryan Mullen crashes out of the Three Days of De Panne

Ryan Mullen (Cannondale Pro Cycling) was forced out of the Three Days of De Panne (UCI 2.HC) yesterday after being caught up in a crash on the 211-kilometre second stage of the race from Zottegem to Koksijde. The Irish Time Trial Champion was caught up in the crash involving a number of riders just before the Monteberg after 110 kilometres...

Did a farmer really build the Paterberg to get the Tour of Flanders to pass by his house?

By Graham Healy It's only a relatively recent addition to the Tour of Flanders, but the Paterberg has already achieved legendary status. With a maximum gradient of 20.33% and an average gradient of over 12%, it's the steepest climb of the race, eclipsing the Koppenberg whose steepest gradient is 19.42%. In addition, along with the Oude Kwaremont, the climbs are the...

Direct Energie and Katusha riders trade blows at Three Days of De Panne (VIDEO)

On today's stage of the Three Days of De Panne, there was a bit of friction between riders from the Direct Energie team and a rider from the Katusha team of race leader Alexander Kristoff. It's unclear at this stage who the two riders involved were. It appears that the Direct Energie rider and the Katusha rider barged off each...

Cyclist at Three Days of De Panne narrowly avoids being hit by a car (VIDEO)

This was the moment when Mads Pedersen, a Danish rider for the German squad Team Stölting, was nearly hit by a car overtaking the lead group on the first stage of the Three Days of De Panne. It happened with less than 46 kilometres to race. The car came within inches of hitting the rider who was close enough to...

Yves Lampaert to miss cobbled classics after being hit by supermarket trolley

Etixx-Quick Step have confirmed that Yves Lampaert will not start the Tour of Flanders or Paris-Roubaix due to an injury of his right Achilles tendon. Their team manager, Patrick Lefevere, revealed last week that the reason for his injury was rather unconventional as it occurred when the Belgian rider was hit by a supermarket trolley. Lampaert's girlfriend accidentally ran the trolley...

Ireland jump to 12th place in World Tour rankings following Volta a Catalunya

The latest World Tour rankings sees Ireland move up to 12th position in the Nations rankings thanks to Dan Martin’s stage win and third place overall at the Volta a Catalunya. Martin managed to overtake Richie Porte (BMC Racing) to take the final podium position after battling for bonus seconds in the final few stages of the race. This along...

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