Boonen

The Tour de France has never belonged only to climbers and general classification riders. Every July, the sprinters give the race its other kind...

Paris-Roubaix has always stood apart. Even in a sport built on hardship, it developed into something more severe, more elemental and more mythic than...

Cycling rarely moves in straight lines. It evolves in waves shaped by dominance, disruption, and reinvention. As the 2026 season approaches, the sport feels...

The Tour of Britain will return to Greater Manchester in 2023, with the race due to start in the city on Sunday 3rd September....

The Tour of Britain returns in 2022 and will visit Yorkshire for the first time since 2009. A pair of full stages in Dorset...

The World Championships is the pinnacle one-day race of the cycling calendar. The list of winners contains so many iconic cyclists over the decades.

Boonen's first year as a professional was at US Postal. He finished 3rd at Paris Roubaix as well to announce himself. He broke his contract to sign with Quickstep for 2003 and stayed there all his career. In 2004 he won 3 Classics and 2 Tour de France stages.

The first E3 BinckBank Classic was first run in 1958 and would head from Harelbeke to Antwerp and back. From the early 1960s it was called the E3-Prijs Vlaanderen. Originally named after a local motorway, the road has since been renamed the E17 but the race has name has stuck.

Originally named Omloop van Vlaanderen, the race was created by newspaper Het Volk to compete against rival Het Nieuwsblad's Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen).

These days there are two velodromes in Roubaix. One is indoors and not even 10 years old yet. The other is the immensely iconic...

To most people, the Champs Elysees is a premium-priced shopping street. With a very wide road in the middle of it and evenly spaced trees...

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is the start of the Spring Classics season. Whilst not a classic in itself, it's the first race that will lead...