Tag Archive for ‘Paris-Roubaix’
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 [...]
From Where Failure Stems…
An old cycling axiom held true for George Hincapie today at Paris-Roubaix; If you have good form and good legs you don’t need good luck, you just have to stay away from bad luck. After traversing over 200 of the 259kms, Hincapie’s recent failure to win the coveted race quite literally stemmed from his stem, [...]
Now Who Expected This?
Photo credit: AFP For a full blog of Paris-Roubaix, click here. It’s well worth reading the entire blog, from start to finish — and after! What a race! I can’t wait to watch it at 6 p.m. on OLN-TV. Related Posts:Team Garmin-Cervélo Announces 2011 Paris-Roubaix Line-upQuick-Step Cycling Team to Paris RoubaixSuperlative, Cancellara Rolls In RoubaixRoubaix [...]
A Paris-Roubaix Not To Miss
Wanna take a ride? “The Queen of the Classics.”"The Hell of the North.” Whatever you want to call it, Paris-Roubaix on Sunday shapes up as one of the most exciting classics in years with the expected duel between Quick Step’s Tom Boonen and George Hincapie of Discovery Channel.Roger De Vlaeminck, who won the race a [...]
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