Tom Boonen News

Iljo Keisse finishes third behind Tom Boonen at the 60th Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne in Belgium on March 4,... view thumbnail gallery Six Day rider may take to the road Track rider Iljo Keisse may ride on the road and join Quick Step for the coming season.

The comings and goings at Astana continue with the news that Kazakh rider Dmitriy Muravyev has decided to leave the team from his home country and take up an offer to follow Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong, and many others to Radio Shack.

Eddy Merckx's classic scandium-tubed alloy frame thankfully continues on into 2010.

Tom Boonen is a cross between a sprinter and a strong cobbled classics rider. He's a multiple winner of both major cobbled classics, Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders.

For the second year in a row Mark Cavendish proved himself to be the World's pre-eminent sprinter after he dominated cycling's sprint scene in 2009.

Flandrien Honorees: Mark Cavendish, Martijn Degreve, Kevin De Jonghe, Grace Verbeke, Martijn Degreve and a representative for Philippe Gilbert.

The Amgen Tour of California apparently won't be wheeling its way to Clovis and Fresno next year, in part because race organizers were unable to cut a deal with the federal government to include Yosemite National Park in the event.

For the Grand Tour countries , you need to be able to claim you held serve at home, and maybe grabbed a few more precious wins abroad.

Belgian Tom Boonen made an important step towards his first green jersey with victory in the 178.5-km 12th stage of the Tour de France on Friday.

While some of the overall contenders for the 2010 Tour de France may look with fear upon the route's early stages in Belgium and Northern France, the Quick Step team and Classics specialist Tom Boonen will certainly be aiming for victory on familiar terrain.

Lance Armstrong's coach Chris Carmichael has revealed that the seven-time Tour de France winner will take part in the 2011 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Silence Lotto team member Philippe Gilbert of Belgium, raises his trophy after winning the Paris-Tours cycling classic in Tours, France, Sunday Oct.

Gilbert, the Silence-Lotto rider, beat off challenges from Tom Boonen, the Belgian national road race champion, and Borut Bozic, Vacansoleil's Slovenian, in a sprint finish in Tours as he continued his country's impressive record in the race.

USA Cycling National Development Team graduate Tyler Farrar scored a big win in Belgium over the weekend while current USA Cycling National Development program riders Taylor Phinney and Shelley Olds earned national titles on the track at the USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships in Carson, Calif.

The Col d'Aubisque is likely to make another appearance in the 2010 Tour. When race director Christian Prudhomme unveils details of the 2010 Tour de France in Paris on October 14, his presentation will most likely emphasize the 100th anniversary of the first crossing of the PyrA©nA©es with a course that culminates on the Col du Tourmalet ...

Stage One of the four stage race was a 213 km ride from the French town of Templeuve, taking the peloton across the border into Belgium to the town of Mouscronter where the stage finished with four laps of a 20km circuit.

Quick Step's Tom Boonen won the third stage of the Franco-Belge stage race on Saturday in a sprint finish ahead of England's Roger Hammond and American Tyler Farrar .

AFP/BELGA US Tyler Farrar of Garmin receives the traditional winner's kiss from two local hostesses after winning Thu Oct 1, 2:33 pm ET MOUSCRON, Belgium American Tyler Farrar continued his successful end of season by beating sprint rivals Danilo Napolitano and Tom Boonen to win the first stage of the Circuit Franco-Belge Thursday.

Marc Sergeant declared Cadel Evans' World Championship victory in Mendrisio on Sunday the ideal remedy for one of the most difficult seasons of the Australian's nine-year career.

Fans who have followed the Vuelta a Espana for the past three weeks must have been wondering why so many riders were dropping out.