RACING
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Elia Viviani: Confidence man
“If you want to win the race, you must want to be the leader.” Two years of winning with #TheWolfpack has turned Elia Viviani into...
How Deceuninck – Quick Step are trying to match their golden 2018
Our man at their camp in Calpe thought Quick Step would underperform in 2018. He’s still digesting humble pie. The question is, can Deceuninck possibly...
The Wolfpack: inside Team Quick Step with photographer Sigfrid Eggers
A year on the road with Quick Step in 2018 offered Belgian photographer Sigfrid Eggers a unique insight into Team Quick Step
The Wolfpack, Maertens and Roger De Vlaeminck’s ego
After Eddy Merckx earlier in the event schedule, there were more Belgian legends of the sport at the Rouleur Classic today
On the right track: Elia Viviani and his move from Sky to Quick Step
Quick-Step’s Elia Viviani is enjoying his best-ever road season and the Rio Olympic Omnium champion sees evidence of an Italian track ‘risorgimento’ too. What’s going...
Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 5
It’s hotting up down in Spain. A lumpy 188km tomorrow, but can the sprinters’ teams hold it together? Our panel is split down the middle
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – Philippe Gilbert
The groundwork was all laid, the result just didn’t turn out as planned. All the more reason then to recognise Philippe Gilbert’s effort
Hammer Series part one: Climb
“It was very different to what I expected: no control, but that is five-man racing.” Tao Geoghegan-Hart gets Hammered at the 2017 debut of the...
Inside line: we need to talk about Bob Jungels
After his win at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, his friend and agent Gary McQuaid looks back on a moment eight years in the making
Philippe Gilbert: Classics king and Flanders champion
“I was always dreaming of the Classics,” Philippe Gilbert says of his boyhood self. Now the Quick Step man wins them instead. Ned meets him...
Gallery: Quick Step training camp on the Costa Blanca
The Belgian team enjoy sun and sea views at a pre-season training camp on Spain’s southeastern coast
School of hard Knox: a neo-pro’s journey from fell-running to Quick Step
It took some tough lessons and a lot of patience before James Knox got noticed by the World Tour. But the young climber has a...
Philippe Gilbert: Ned Boulting meets the Belgian in Monaco
A year in Quick Step blue paid dividends for the Classics star – the first Belgian to win both Flanders and Amstel Gold in the...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin
The Irishman has ridden a strong and smart first week at the Tour. Today’s crash was a setback, but he is still in contention
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