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Listening to a friend covering Joan Osborne (not the full song) : View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGhjmNRWTU

On other boards, posters/moderators have already blamed me on mixing sport with politics while raising that issue. In my opinion the matter is that the government and the Rwandan federation are the main organisers of the race: http://www.tourdurwanda.rw/Partners/ (Minispoc is the Rwandan...

Rwanda can fund an international cycling race because of all the natural ressources that they've plundered in neighbouring Congo, along with their allies (US, UK, Canada, Israel, Uganda, etc). This race is a disgrace. Just ask yourself why it is that Rwanda has a cycling race with a decent...

Thank you Kevin for all those nice moments and for your shyness. :)

Doping most probably exists in cyclocross. Or else bike motors as Wout Van Aert has been suspected to use (rightly or wrongly so). Yet cyclocross is a very hierarchical sport. You would always expected the best to win, the second best to come second, more or less the same guys in the top5 or...

Happy New Year! Best wishes (for a clean cycling) ! Idolizing is not a good thing. All men have their flaws, cycling riders in particular. Nonetheless, Remco is barely 18 and Benotti is, as usual, accusing by connections. That's already what he did with his father. Patrick Evenepoel was a...

Right thread to wish a happy birthday to Kirk Douglas (sorry mistake in bumping :o )

The problem with De Vlaeminck is that he's not a great communicator. I'm sure he admires Mathieu and has already said so but he makes it sound like it's Mathieu's fault that the field cannot keep up to him. Well in a way you cannot blame the opponents either for not having the same talent as...

Re: Practicing other sports? Then they are better examples. If only in Belgium, most talented riders come from cycling families. That's why I was very surprised when I read LaFlo's post. André Boonen, Ronald Van Avermaet, Leo Wellens or Gino Van Hooydonck were all less talented riders than...

I live 3km far from Overijse and visited the cross in 2013. Back then it was about 10€ if you bought it on the spot (which I did). It's probably a bit more today but not much. Considering the fact that you can see several races from beginners to elite, it's worth it really. If you come a few...

As a kid I liked him too because of these arms shaping a right angle like Roger De Vlaeminck. But then happened what happened, clinic related, and I cannot approve of this at all ...

Merckx only raced Tirreno in 1976, second to De Vlaeminck, even in the ITT if I'm not mistaken. In previous years, Tirreno Adriatico mainly had an Italian field (in terms of teams, I mean) with a couple of Belgian teams. It was created in 1966 because the Italians realised that foreigners kept...

Well in all recent interviews I've read of Edwig Van Hooydonck, he truly believes that things have changed (rightly or wrongly so, though well things certainly changed, even if doping still exists we do not have the celerities we had in the early nineties anymore) and consequently, his son was...

Re: Re: No, as I said, Patrick Evenepoel was a very talented amateur rider who could drop Michele Bartoli uphill as an amateur. He won Seraing-Aachen-Seraing and came 2nd to Serge Baguet in the Tryptique ardennais, two major references in the amateur circuit back then. Then was just robbed by...

What are you implying? Patrick Evenepoel was most probably clean and was robbed by EPO dopers like so many Belgian riders at that time. As an amateur rider he could drop Bartoli or Bugno. As a pro he had to retire after three years due to heart problems (advised by Pr. Brugada who also advised...