- CYCLO-CROSS IS CALLING THIBAU NYS
It was once the title of a popular TV program with our northern neighbors. In contemporary cycling, there are also sons who follow in their father’s footsteps. Well-known examples include David and Erik Dekker, Mathieu and Adrie van der Poel, Nicolas and Alexandre Vinokourov and Boy and Jean-Paul van Poppel. In Flanders, the couple ...
- PRIMOŽ ROGLIČ APPROACHES TOP 20 IN PROCYCLINGSTATS ALL TIME RANKING
The question of how to rate a cyclist’s performance is of all times and all generations. Many find comparing with the past completely worthless. On the other hand, the urge to evaluate and “place” performances and careers is very strong. For example, after the recent Vuelta, the question was asked on various channels, how we ...
- THE 2024 EK IN FLANDERS CYCLING PROVINCE NUMBER ONE
In less than 100 days, Limburg may get ready for a cycling festival of stature. The easternmost province of Flanders will host the 2024 UEC Road European Championships from September 11 to 15.
- ROGER DE VLAEMINCK – ELEGANCE AND EFFICIENCY UNITED ON A RACING BIKE
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of great riders from different eras and countries. Today we come to the number fifteen in our ranking Roger de Vlaeminck.
- JONAS VINGEGAARD HIGH FAVORITE IN TIRRENO ADRIATICO
Yesterday was the first stage in Paris-Nice and it was immediately accompanied by fireworks from fellow top favorite Remco Evenepoel. However, that other top favorite Primoz Roglic did not let himself be caught by Evenepoel’s invitation to give it a patch and kept a low profile. Perhaps the best tactic if you want to be ...
- NEW TEST FOR REMCO EVENEPOEL IN PARIS-NICE
Now Sunday, third March starts in Les Mureaux the 82nd edition of Paris – Nice, with Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic as the big favorites on the overall victory. The race to the sun ends on March 12 on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The course is not really sprinters friendly this year, as ...
- CHARLY GAUL – FROM ANGEL TO HERMIT IN THE FOREST
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of great riders from various eras and countries. Today we come to the number fourteen in our ranking Charly Gaul.
- RIK VAN LOOY – THE EMPEROR OF HERENTALS
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras. Today we come to the number thirteen in our ranking Rik Van Looy.
- LAURENT FIGNON A FIGURE FOR THE AGES
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we put the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras side by side. Today we come to the number twelve in our ranking Laurent Fignon.
- ROUND OF THE ALGARVE: ARRIVAL WHERE STATUE REMCO EVENEPOEL STANDS
After Gerben Thijssen’s impressive sprint victory yesterday in the first stage, it’s up to the classification riders today. They will test each other in this second 171.9 km stage, a first time on the Alto da Foia, which has its summit at 902 meters above sea level.
- VAN AERT AND EVENEPOEL CROSS SWORDS IN THE ROUND OF ALGARVE
As always in February, the spring races become more interesting and important by the week for the sponsors and the riders themselves. Today, the Tour of the Algarve starts with a bunch of big names at the start who all want to test how far along they are in their fitness development.
- MARK CAVENDISH – ON THE HUNT FOR THE TOUR RECORD
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras. Today we come to the number eleven in our ranking Mark Cavendish.
- ERIC VANDERAERDEN DEMIGOD AT AGE 23
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we put the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras side by side. We now come to the number ten in our ranking Eric Vanderaerden.
- FRANK VANDENBROUCKE – FROM ‘GOLDEN BOY’ TO THE ABYSS
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we put the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras side by side. We now come to Frank Vandenbroucke, who takes ninth place in our ranking.
- FREDDY MAERTENS – A CAREER OF FALLING, GETTING UP AND MOVING ON
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on January 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras. We now come to Freddy Maertens who takes 8th place in this ranking.
- GINO BARTALI THE CYCLING HERO OF WORLD WAR 2
Remco Evenepoel will turn 24 on Jan. 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras. We now come to the number seven in our ranking Gino Bartali.
- PETER SAGAN – SHOWMAN ON ONE WHEEL/TWO WHEELS
Today we come to an amazing rider who deserves tons of respect and not just for his record. Peter Sagan who ranks 5th along with Bernard Hinault in this ranking has been so much more to cycling than an exceptionally good cyclist for the past 13 years.
- BERNARD HINAULT – BRETON KEIKOP DRIVEN BY THE WILL TO BE THE BEST OF ALL TIME
Remco Evenepoel turned 24 on January 25, 2024, and we compared the palmares – up to the 24th birthday – of the greatest riders of various eras. We now come to the (shared) number five in our ranking Bernard Hinault.
- TADEJ POGAČAR ON FOURTH PLACE OF ALL TIME
Friday 19/01/24 we posted here on this website the article published in Cyclelive Magazine 76, with the palmares up to the 24th birthday of the greatest riders in the history of cycling. The starting point in that issue is the fact that Remco Evenepoel turns 24 today and we compared the palmares – up to ...
- GUISEPPE SARONNI – EARLY BLOOMER AND MULTIPLE WINNER IN ITALY
On Friday 19 January, we posted here on this website the article that has just appeared in Cyclelive Magazine No 76 with the palmares up to the 24th birthday of the greatest riders in the history of cycling. The starting point in that issue is the fact that Remco Evenepoel will turn 24 tomorrow, 25 ...
- EVENEPOEL AND POGAČAR IN TOP FIVE OF ALL TIME
We wrote this article from Cyclelive Magazine No 76 – published on 19 January 2024, in honour of Remco Evenepoel’s 24th birthday. Remco’s birthday is on 25 January and for us that day is a milestone to test his palmares against those of the greatest riders in the history of cycling.
- JUMBO-VISMA 2023 – VENI, VIDI, VICI
This Latin maxim (I came, I saw, I conquered) dates back as far as pre-Christian times. But in recent cycling seasons it also seemed to apply to Team Jumbo-Visma’s tactics and was certainly the guiding motive of Merijn Zeeman, the cycling team’s sporting director. In the book “The Plan,” Nando Boers, after having had ...
- FERTILE SLOVENIAN CYCLING SOIL
When visiting beautiful green Slovenia, as a cycling fan you are naturally curious to see if you can find many traces of the current generation of top cyclists. You can tell that cycling is alive and well here by the large numbers of cyclists/cycling enthusiasts you will encounter in the late afternoon and on weekends. ...
- OLIVEIRA OLIVE TREE
Perhaps a somewhat strange headline at the top of an article, but we’ll explain it all. It is the end of November. Above us for days a steel blue sky and with it a pleasant temperature averaging twenty degrees. Life is good in the Portuguese Algarve. The vacation season has been over for a few ...
- A NEW HIGHLIGHT IN VICTOR CAMPENAERTS’ CAREER
Victor Campenaerts’ 2023 preseason did not exactly go as planned. On March 18, he suffered a serious fall in Bredene-Koksijde. Examination at the Veurne hospital revealed a fracture of a vertebra. The big ambitions Victor expressed at the beginning of the season were immediately relegated to the wastepaper basket.
- ONE-TWO-THREE
In every race, people ride for the podium and preferably for the top step. But out of a field of 150/160 riders it is a utopia for many, even to come close. With a first place you so-wie-so go into the history books. It gets even better when there are two riders from the same ...
- VINCENZO NIBALI: THE SHARK OF MESSINA
When you are a lover of solving cryptograms and crypto filippines you come across the strangest and sometimes the most illogical descriptions. But it must also be said that sometimes there are windfalls among them. It just depends how broad your word and general knowledge is. For avid crypto solvers, the puzzle in the morning ...
- REMCO – FERRARI – EVENEPOEL
Remco Evenepoel stunned everyone in his first feat at the Giro d’ Italia 2023 by winning the opening stage wearing the jersey of Belgian time trial champion. He rode at an impressive speed of 55.2 km/h, beating the other specialists, including Italian world time trial champion and top favorite for this stage, Filippo Ganna.
- BINIAM ‘BINI’ GIRMAY MAY UNCORK ANOTHER BOTTLE
With his second place in the road race of the U 23 Under-23s at the 2021 World Championships in Leuven, it was already clear that Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux had hooked up with a very talented rider from the African continent. With that result, he made history because he was the first black African cyclist to win ...
- VICTORY KING RUTGER WOUTERS SURE IS PRO WORTHY!
On Oct. 06, 2022, Rutger Wouters wrote his name on the annual fairground prize for elites without a contract and U23 in Bornem. Not so special, many readers will now think. But nothing could be further from the truth because it was Rutgers’ 31st win of the season, improving his own record. It was ...
- WILLY VAN MALDERGHEM IMMORTALIZED IN GAVERE
Fifty years ago, the then Gaverling Willy Van Malderghem was “le roi des paves” according to the French l’Equipe Cyclisme Magazine. Indeed, he was the inspirer of the wet and windy 70th edition of Paris-Roubaix on April 16, 1972.
- REMCO STAY REMCO!
On May 08, 2021, 184 pro riders were at the start of the 104th Giro d’ Italia in Sicily. As top favorites, Egan Bernal and Simon Yates were top listed by the international press, while in Belgium – surely also fueled by its own entourage and its unprecedented self-assurance – the pressure on Remco Evenepoel ...
- TIDY UP OR KEEP?
Everyone has those phases in their lives when they start cleaning up. A person tends to keep a lot and you have to wonder what will happen to your archives, in this case cycling archives, when you have exchanged the present for the eternal. That’s why it’s a good idea to make a clean sweep ...
- TIM MERLIER HONORS WOUTER WEYLANDT
Tim Merlier wins right away in the first bunch sprint of his very first grand tour. With his hands in the air and forming the letter W, he honored Wouter Weylandt who lost his life just ten years ago in the Giro.
