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Can Tadej Pogačar win the Tour of Flanders?

Can Tadej Pogačar win the Tour of Flanders?

Tadej Pogačar starts the 2022 Tour of Flanders as both a debutant and a pre-race favourite. Can the Slovenian become the first Tour de France champion since...

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Lone wolf without a pack: can Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl save their Classics season?

Lone wolf without a pack: can Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl save their Classics season?

Belgium’s top men's team start the 2022 Tour of Flanders in the rare position of underdogs. Can they turn their Classics season around at De...

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The last all-Belgian podium at the Tour of Flanders

The last all-Belgian podium at the Tour of Flanders

Belgian 1,2,3’s used to be the norm at De Ronde, but it’s been a while… We recall the last time locals achieved a clean sweep

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"It's different to the others" Fabian Cancellara and the Tour of Flanders

"It's different to the others" Fabian Cancellara and the Tour of Flanders

Triple Tour of Flanders champion and seven-time Monument winner Fabian Cancellara reflects on the one-day classics 

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Tour of Flanders for Women 2021 Preview

Tour of Flanders for Women 2021 Preview

The Tour of Flanders has been a highlight of the women's calendar since its inception in 2004, and this year's race on 4th April looks...

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Tour of Flanders 2021 Preview

Tour of Flanders 2021 Preview

Rouleur look ahead to the second Monument of the 2021 season, the Tour of Flanders. Mathieu van der Poel will look to defend his crown

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Rouleur's top ten features: No. 6 - Brian Holm vs Mark Cavendish (part 1)

Rouleur's top ten features: No. 6 - Brian Holm vs Mark Cavendish (part 1)

“I wasn’t sure he would want to do the interview with me. I gave him a hard time in the bunch and he didn’t always...

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Mapei: Modern cycling's greatest team

Mapei: Modern cycling's greatest team

A building industry behemoth that sells industrial adhesives, grouts and sealants. How unromantic, how un-Italian. And yet, its team forged in chaos became the greatest...

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The column: Sunday's Tour of Flanders gave the 2020 season the showcase showdown cycling has for so long needed

The column: Sunday's Tour of Flanders gave the 2020 season the showcase showdown cycling has for so long needed

With the final third of the Giro and the entirety of the Vuelta still to come, it wouldn’t be entirely correct to characterise Sunday’s Ronde...

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Rouleur predicts... The Men's Tour of Flanders 2020

Rouleur predicts... The Men's Tour of Flanders 2020

"Everything you can do to prepare, prepare it. Know the course well, it helps you out in the end." Tom Boonen

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Rouleur predicts... The Women's Tour of Flanders 2020

Rouleur predicts... The Women's Tour of Flanders 2020

We've got bergs for breakfast as the best women riders in the world take on the cobbled climbs of west Belgium. Not quite the last big race...

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Andrea Tafi: The Gladiator

Andrea Tafi: The Gladiator

Tales from the arena from Mapei’s Roubaix, Flanders and Lombardy champion Andrea Tafi.

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Sep Vanmarcke: The nearly man?

Sep Vanmarcke: The nearly man?

   “If there’s a setback I come home to a warm family and the world keeps turning.” Sep Vanmarcke, so many times the nearly man,...

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2019 photographs of the year: Benedict Campbell

2019 photographs of the year: Benedict Campbell

Behind the scenes at Roubaix, Flanders and Le Tour

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Rouleur podcast: Spring Classics with De Vlaeminck, Maertens, author Harry Pearson

Rouleur podcast: Spring Classics with De Vlaeminck, Maertens, author Harry Pearson

A Flanders themed edition to mark the climax of the Spring Classics season. Presented by Laka, bicycle insurance powered by you

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The column: We need to talk about Mathieu

The column: We need to talk about Mathieu

We’ve always been told you only get one chance to win the Tour of Flanders. Mathieu van der Poel may not have quite clinched the...

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Tom Boonen and the Ronde

Tom Boonen and the Ronde

Three-time Tour of Flanders winner Tom Boonen discusses his lifelong relationship with the race that made his name

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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: Q&A with Harry Pearson

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: Q&A with Harry Pearson

Harry Pearson’s superb book on Belgium is an affectionate examination of the Spring Classics and, in particular, the Flandrians

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An Easter in Flanders with legendary team boss Hilaire van der Schueren

An Easter in Flanders with legendary team boss Hilaire van der Schueren

A no-nonsense DS who has never raced a bike, Hilaire van der Schueren has been doing his job so long it’ll be up to the UCI to ask...

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Philippe Gilbert: Classics king and Flanders champion

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...

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Why everyone’s talking about Wout van Aert, Classics star of the future

Why everyone’s talking about Wout van Aert, Classics star of the future

Analysis: He’s not the first cyclo-cross specialist to show potential in the Classics. But Wout van Aert’s early season showing has nonetheless been turning heads

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The tears of Van Hooydonck – the two time Flanders winner burnt by the EPO era

The tears of Van Hooydonck – the two time Flanders winner burnt by the EPO era

Edwig Van Hooydonck knew exactly where he could attack on the Bosberg and keep his speed to the top. But practice and knowledge couldn’t compete with 90’s new...

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Fabian Cancellara: doing the double at Flanders and Roubaix

Fabian Cancellara: doing the double at Flanders and Roubaix

Private jets, boozy post-Flanders celebrations and banging hangovers. How will he go at Roubaix? Not bad, it transpires…

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Philippe Gilbert: Ned Boulting meets the Belgian in Monaco

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...

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