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https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-rouleur-journal/wout-van-aert?fbclid=IwAR0ateG6Ns1BzWCAK6ElJJElmFC1kftdUvvlCHouAxq1Fe17iiUBJH42gdw Fully recovered from his horrific 2019 Tour crash, Wout van Aert is the most exciting bike racer in the world. Domestique, sprinter, climber, time-trials, cyclo-cross, and now Tour de France stage wins – he can do it all WORDS: OLIVIER NILSSON-JULIEN PHOTOS: DAVID SERRANO PAU, JULY 2019  He didn’t have the legs. Didn’t matter. Even on a bad day, he was up there. His numbers were good. He was the fastest at the first time check and only fellow countryman Thomas De Gendt had gone faster at the second. From the team car, Mathieu Heijboer urged the Herentaler to pick it up – come on, almost there, focus, it’s the Tour de France! This was the biggest stage, his childhood dream come true.  With just over a kilometre to go, he was squeezing the power, aiming for the next corner, regaining valuable seconds. Rock-solid in his aerodynamic position, he knew ...

https://belgiancrew.cc/blogs/news/the-history-of-the-tour-of-flanders?fbclid=IwAR2zPZMCW7zIzaYsYSSkFRHROUR1eXbzkdLFjAqpjSqCg_vWQG3mwkaa2lA Mar 30, 2022 by Belgian Crew The Tour of Flanders ( Ronde Van Vlaanderen in dutch), also known as 'De Ronde', is a true monument of cycling. If you haven’t heard of it, you are definitely in the wrong sport or should not call yourself a cyclist, nor you deserve to be part of the Belgian Crew. Scheduled one week ahead of Paris–Roubaix, the event only stopped during World War I (1915/1918). Ronde Van Vlaanderen is the cycling race with the record of most consecutive editions taking place continuously since 1919; it didn’t stop even during WWII.   Everything began in 1912 when Odile Defraye become the first Belgian winner of the Tour de France and a Flemish newspaper Sportwereld (Sport World) was born . While Defraye’s victory added impetus to the already flourishing cycling scene in Belgium, the subsequent appearance of Sportwereld  in Sep...