Tag Archive for ‘Paris-Roubaix’
Sunday Passion Play – 110th Paris-Roubaix, Preview
This Sunday, April 8th, while millions of people worldwide continue their observation of Passover and rejoice in the celebration of Easter, professional cycling will once again undertake its annual descent into Hell, better known as the cobblestoned Classic, Paris-Roubaix. Defined by its traditional twenty-seven sectors of pavé, which are spread out over 257.5 kilometers of [...]
Omega Pharma – Quick-Step for Paris-Roubaix
Tom Boonen Addresses Media Tom Boonen spoke at a press conference at the Kennedy Hotel in Kortrijk on Friday. The Specialized bicycle he will use to race in Paris-Roubaix was at the event, and Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team also announced the selection for the race on Sunday. Boonen and the team performed course [...]
Tom Boonen to Scheldeprijs, But Focused on Sunday
Special Moment for ‘Picture of the Ronde’ Fan Tom Boonen’s press conference about his Ronde van Vlaanderen victory on Sunday, as well as his thoughts about Paris-Roubaix next weekend, began with a special moment. The team invited 11-year-old fan Tjorven to the press conference. Tjorven was the young fan, caught by TV cameras in an [...]
Team Garmin-Cervélo Announces 2011 Paris-Roubaix Line-up
Ever since Team Garmin-Cervélo was presented, expectations for not only a successful, but a dominant Spring Classics season began. To date, the team has failed to produce a victor in any of these races; either being caught “out” as in Flanders last Sunday, or caught “up” as they were in the finale of Scheldeprijs midweek. [...]
Quick-Step Cycling Team to Paris Roubaix
The 2011 edition of the Paris Roubaix will take place on Sunday, April 10, on an hard route of 258 km with 51,5 km of cobblestones. On Friday, Quick-Step Cycling Team did a reconnaissance ride on the route for the “northern hell”. “We pedaled for about 2 and a half hours” explains Sporting Director Wilfried [...]
Superlative, Cancellara Rolls In Roubaix
Dominant, overpowering, superior, controlling, assertive, authoritative, commanding, powerful, supreme, transcendent. Somewhere Saul Bellow is smiling, as the use of a single superlative simply fails to accurately capture Fabian Cancellara’s performance this past Sunday, and for that matter this past week. On a day usually referred to as “A Sunday In Hell,” the current Ronde van [...]
Roubaix Perspectives
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Tornado Tom Boonen’s victory at Paris-Roubaix before the week ended. We wouldn’t be much of a cycling site if we didn’t. Perhaps our lack of mentioning his win this past Sunday is a product of his seeming dominance in the northern Spring Classics. His favorite status has many [...]
Reality Bites
The photo below has been circling the internet like a viral video. I’ve got no reason to doubt its authenticity, as the reality of the matter really does outweigh any reason for wanting to manufacture it. So say you’re taking part in a one day Classic and while traversing over 224km you suddenly have an [...]
Take Tue(-sday)
C’est le Paris-RoubaixIt’s been said that the only reason Johan Bruyneel is considered one of the sport’s great Director Sportifs is because he always had the strongest rider in Lance Armstrong. Even though he’ll never be able to get around this fact, Bruyneel should always be included in the discussion of great Directors because of [...]
Post-Paris-Roubaix Coverage on Eurosport
I don’t check out Eurosport’s fine website as often as I should. If that applies to you as well, the post-Paris-Roubaix coverage is a good place to start. There’s a scrolling feature below the story with links to other coverage. Video from the race is particularly worth seeing; it includes interview with Tom Boonen, his [...]
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