Posts Tagged "fabian cancellara"

To all Tom Boonen fans, we have a special message brought to you by those in charge over at Omega Pharma–QuickStep; there will be no need to take your whitewash to l’Alpe d’Huez this year.

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This year, circumstances and a generous wife allowed me to watch all the televised Spring Classics (and semi-classics for that matter).

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Tom Boonen did it in 2005, and five years ago Fabian Cancellara did it. The two became the ninth and tenth riders to have won De Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix in the same year.

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To win Paris-Roubaix you need three things: to be the strongest rider on the day; to be the smartest rider on the day; and plenty of good luck. On Sunday, Fabian Cancellara was the strongest and the smartest, but only by the barest margin.

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Whoever gets to hold the Sett above his head in the Roubaix velodrome, is going to have to do something special when during the 2013 Paris-Roubaix. We’ll have live updates from 9.00pm AEST.

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Every second Saturday of April for the last seven years of my life, I have woken up and typed the following words into Google: ‘Weather Roubaix’.

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Whoever gets to hold the Sett (or a mounted cobblestone to me and you) above his head in the Roubaix velodrome is going to have to do something special.

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The lung busting, Peter Sagan-beating climbs of Flanders may be gone, but the cobblestones aren’t. They return this weekend with a vengeance.

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Four men and one team summed up the day’s racing for this year’s Tour of Flanders.

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1. Cancellara is back, baby! Fabian Cancellara’s devastating surge of pace on the cobbles of the Paterberg to win Sunday’s 100th edition of Ronde van Vlaanderen (the Tour of Flanders) was a stark reminder of his exceptional talents.

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In the lead up to the Tour of Flanders all the talk surrounds the Slovakian Peter Sagan.

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If you’ve been living under a moss-covered rock for the last two years, you may not have heard that Peter Sagan is rapidly becoming cycling’s next superstar.

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It has been almost six weeks to the day since I crashed at 65kmph and broke my collar bone, so I signed up for the Warburton Road Race, run on Sunday 24th March.

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Two weeks ago Tim Renowden wrote an article questioning Fabian Cancellara’s future as a winner of one day Classics.

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Fabian Cancellara’s fearsome reputation is destroying his chances of winning road races.

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It’s not easy for a modern race to muscle its way in to the grizzled hearts and grease-stained affections of the hardcore cycling fan but Italy’s Strade Bianche seems to have bucked that trend, establishing itself in just seven short years as a modern classic.

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Thanks for tuning in to today’s Friday Flick. Over the last few weeks we have taken some wonderful trips down memory lane, reliving cycling from days gone by.

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Tony Martin followed in the footsteps of Fabian Cancellara and Michael Rogers by successfully – not to mention dramatically – defending his world ITT title in Limburg on Wednesday.

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It was a great win by Thibaut Pinot, holding off a charging field following a daring attack with 17km to go. Cadel finished second with Wiggins right on his wheel in third.

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Stage four saw riders complete a lumpy 215km trip from Abbeville to Rouen – the longest stage of the 99th Tour de France to date.

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