Boonen to race tour of Qatar and Oman. Can he win the Desert Double?
Tornado Tom returns to the deserts of Qatar. Yes, the sheik of Quick Step will again race in February’s Tour of Qatar as he has done every year since 2004. The man likes the cobbles, he likes the...
View ArticlePillows, she-devils and oiled thighs. Thoughts on advertising and star riders.
Pillow talk first, then sexy girl. The new photo of the Quick Step team engaged in a group hug with sponsor Latexco’s pillows had a number of people laughing. The always insightful Inner Ring called...
View ArticleSprinter firefight in Tour Down Under.
How did the Tour Down Under get so lucky? We’re about to see a mano-a-mano sprinto like we haven’t even seen in the Giro or Tour de France in a while. A dentally-perfect Mark Cavendish who will be as...
View ArticleCavendish turns tables on Farrar in Tour Down Under. 98th a winner!
The hotly contested battle of slow-moving sprinters took a new turn in stage four of the Tour Down Under. After his shocking 130th place a few days ago and losses to arch rival Tyler Farrar, Cavendish...
View ArticleBoonen wins in Qatar. On track for Desert double.
Qatar, the Belgium of the Middle East. Who else would we expect to dominate in this desert other than Tornado Tom Boonen? The echelons formed in the first kilometer of heated racing and an elite group...
View ArticleHaussler wins stage 3 in Qatar. Vaughters’ goal on track.
Jonathan Vaughters, motivational speaker, Nostradamus of the ProTour. Back in late December, Vaughters counted up the horsepower the team gained in the Garmin-Cervelo merger and wrote a new mission for...
View ArticleTom Boonen and the power of forgetting.
“I forget my defeats quickly.” That bit of sports psychology was presented by classics monster Tom Boonen of Quick Step. He said plenty of things in his latest interview about his season goals and the...
View ArticleSky’s Sutton wins KBK. Robots banished.
Maybe this is what happens when a team isn’t robotic. After the Team Sky debacle at the Tour de France, head honcho David Brailsford promised season two would be different. They’d avoid what he called...
View ArticleTom Boonen to resort to disguise to avoid marking?
After this last weekends’ two Belgian races, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Tom Boonen was irritated by being so closely marked. “It’s always the same thing. If I move a finger, I...
View ArticleBoonen wins Gent-Wevelgem, the Cancellara tune-up.
Tom Boonen wins the Only Man With A Prayer Of Beating Cancellara race. Generally and usually referred to by its traditional name, Gent Wevelgem. The Belgian took the victory in style and like...
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