Roger de Vlaeminck started quickly, he won his first professional race - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 1969. The following season the first monument victory was ticked off at Liège Bastogne Liège. [...]
Hindsight Glasses were a concept I hadn't seen before. It does happen, every now and again something appears in the cycling world that you haven't come across before. Sometimes there's a reason for that. Or they get a ban soon after launch. [...]
Despite its lower prestige, Scheldeprijs is in fact older than the Tour of Flanders. The first was in 1907, 6 years before De Ronde. The first editions would start and finish in Antwerp, with the finish being on the now demolished Zurenborg velodrome. [...]
