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Gallery: Brabantse Pijl
Photos from the action in the mid-week Classic Brabantse Pijl [fsg_gallery id="3"]
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Feature: Post-Classic clean-up
At the Spring Classics the day after a race is calm for riders. They sleep in, have breakfast and then head out for a recovery ride. Eat lunch, have a massage and their day is done. For the...
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Gallery: Flèche Wallonne recon
The riders stretch their legs the day before the penultimate Classics La Flèche Wallonne. Roster: Thomas Dekker Ryder Hesjedal Alex Howes Michel Kreder Dan Martin Peter Stetina Nathan Haas Fabian Wegmann
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Feature: Hesjedal uses Ardennes as prep for Giro
Competing at his eighth Amstel Gold Race, 32-year old Ryder Hesjedal said he is going into the hilly Ardennes Classics week with better fitness and confidence than ever. “The legs feel good,” Hesjedal...
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Feature: Dan Martin’s Ardennes Ascent
After finishing fourth at the 2013 edition of La Flèche Wallonne, Dan Martin says he was “gutted” to have missed a third-place podium position by a matter of centimeters. At the same time, the fact...
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Gallery: Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Dan Martin notched a career victory in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, after a huge effort by teammate Ryder Hesjedal in the closing kilometers.
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Report: Martin wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Team Garmin-Sharp played the race perfectly, with Ryder Hesjedal attacking late to set-up Dan Martin who rode a tactically perfect final kilometer for the win. “Today we had a plan simular to Fleche...
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Feature: Beating the cold
The word in the European peloton this year was that summer happened in November and winter came back for March and April. Races like Milano-Sanremo and Ghent-Wevelgem were hammered by snow and...
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Feature: Young Haas reflects on Ardennes experience
Look up the word enthusiasm in the dictionary and you ought to find a picture of Garmin-Sharp’s Australian rider Nathan Haas. Since not long after the age of 13, when he began spending after-school...
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Cannondale Pro Cycling Team backs Slagter for Amstel Gold as Ardennes week looms
The Cannondale Pro Cycling Team turns its attention from the bumpy northern classics to those of the hilly Ardennes region this weekend, with the first of the three classics on tap in the form of the...
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Classics Q and A: Vanmarcke, Klier, Vanmarcke and Van Baarle
E3-Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem loom over the classics teams now, and just further in the distance are the cobbled monuments of Flanders and Roubaix. There are no such things as tune-up races in the...
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Vanmarcke to lead Cannondale-Drapac squad into Flanders
The last five weeks have been building towards Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen for both racers and fans for good reason: the second Monument of the season in Belgium’s biggest sporting event. The Tour...
View ArticleCannondale-Drapac to support Tom Van Asbroeck at Scheldeprijs
Cannondale-Drapac will support Tom Van Asbroeck in the 105th edition of Scheldeprijs on Wednesday. The 202-kilometer mid-week classic favors the fast finishers with Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors)...
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Classics Q and A: Vanmarcke, Klier, Vanmarcke and Van Baarle
E3-Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem loom over the classics teams now, and just further in the distance are the cobbled monuments of Flanders and Roubaix. There are no such things as tune-up races in the...
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Vanmarcke to lead Cannondale-Drapac squad into Flanders
The last five weeks have been building towards Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen for both racers and fans for good reason: the second Monument of the season in Belgium’s biggest sporting event. The Tour...
View ArticleCannondale-Drapac to support Tom Van Asbroeck at Scheldeprijs
Cannondale-Drapac will support Tom Van Asbroeck in the 105th edition of Scheldeprijs on Wednesday. The 202-kilometer mid-week classic favors the fast finishers with Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors)...
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Sep Vanmarcke opens Classics season with third at Omloop het Nieuwsblad
Sep Vanmarcke rounded out the podium at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday. The Belgian, who won the first Classic of the season in 2012, aimed higher, but he was all smiles from the third step, waving...
View ArticleLogan Owen’s neo-pro Classics season began with promise at Omloop het Nieuwsblad
Neo-pro Logan Owen impressed at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad this weekend where he played a key role in the #PinkArgyle tactics that put Sep Vanmarcke onto the podium. For the uninitiated, Owen was meant to...
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Sep Vanmarcke puts EF Education First – Drapac p/b Cannondale on Dwars door...
Sep Vanmarcke sprinted to third place at Dwars door Vlaanderen on Wednesday. With an acceleration on the Varentstraat cobbles, Vanmarcke created a five-rider selection from which the podium emerged....
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