Flanders News

British born, American-bred, Kristian House has taken the 2009 National Road Race Title at the end of hard fought 104 mile race, beating in the process a number of highly ranked Pro Tour riders including Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins.

Kristian House took his first win of the season in Sunday's British national championships.

CANTERBURY'S Kristian House was delighted after claiming the men's National Road Race Cycling Championships title in Wales yesterday.

LOTHIANS cyclists will mix with some of the world's leading riders at the British Road Race Championships in Wales this weekend, writes COLIN RENTON.

The Cervelo TestTeam named an experienced team on Wednesday to support Spanish reigning champion Carlos Sastre in this year's Tour de France, which begins in Monaco on July 4. Sastre, 34, will be notably supported by his 40-year-old compatriot Inigo Cuesta.

Britain's top cyclists will contest the nation's road cycling championships this weekend in the Welsh town of Abergavenny.

The Dauphine, being the first major race after the Giro, had to scramble to find its mascot and so they turned to the California design firm of Crash + Dan who came through big-time with Savant! You will find Savant! in all PdC Dauphine-related posts this year to increase your viewing pleasure.

Phoenix riders Richard Lam & Richard Knight have established themselves as endurance atheletes par excellence and of late have been busy conquering most of northern europe.

Quick Step manager Patrick Lefevere believes Tom Boonen is ready for competition again Photo ©: Tim Van Wichelen Troubled Quickstep star Tom Boonen will make an earlier than expected return to racing today at the 65th Gullegem-Koerse in Flanders, Belgium.

Among the plethora of things I hold against Lance Armstrong is the way that his story - no matter how inspiring and heroic and extraordinary it has been - has accentuated the English-language press's belief that there's only one bike race of any importance each year.

PARIS, May 9 - Factbox on Belgian rider Tom Boonen, whose Quick Step team said on Saturday he had failed an out-of-competition test for cocaine last month: Born: Oct.

It has been a fantastic season so far for the new Cervelo Test Team. Impressive results early on in the season have been followed up with strong rides in the spring classics with Cervelo Test Team riders placing in the top ten in all six of the major one-day races held throughout April.

Of course writing such a title pretty much guarantees that the Giro won't shake out in anything like the way I propose here but still... The other day I wrote a post, Comparing the Grand Tour Teams , that first of all noted how important teamwork is to winning a race these days and also attempted in a very simple way to give a numerical value to ...

Average age, Monument winners, 2009 season: 0 recs 7 comments Comments Yum. Youth will be served.

Over the last month of racing we have seen some excellent performances in the spring classics.

If you look at the other Big Classics Week, it's quite easy to tell one race from another.

The new squad has been racking up impressive results, including podiums in the opening three classics with Thor Hushovd and the sensational Heinrich Haussler .

Of the 31 climbs the riders will face, which one is ripe for the decisive attack? This is a typical way in which we try to conceive of race strategy beforehand, knowing full well that things happening in real-time don't tend to follow scripts.

It all came together for Boonen last year. He was favored to win at last week's Tour of Flanders and Wednesday's Ghent-Wevelgem, but Quick Step leader Tom Boonen was a marked man in both and missed the chance to stand atop the podium in either race.

Spain's Alejandro Valverde is suited to Amstel, but could have his eyes elsewhere Photo ©: Franklin Tello The coalition of racing in Holland and one of that nation's best-known beers is an enduring one - since 1966, in fact.