Maybe no one wanted a ride on 53rd Tooth's handlebars (see previous item)?
The answer to yesterday's question (who won the 2005 Tour of Flanders) is the answer to who won the 2006 Tour of Flanders: defending World Champion Tom Boonen of Belgium. I believe I heard OLN's Phil Liggitt say that Boonen was the first ToF winner and defending world champion since another Belgian, Eddie Merckx. Not bad, eh?
What really impressed me (beyond the fact the Boonen is the dominant rider in cycling right now) was the 2-3 finish of Team Disovery's Leif Hoste (of Belgium!) and George Hincapie. In an OLN interview after the race, Hincapie said that Hoste's breakaway with Boonen wasn't planned, and he seemed to indicate that Hoste wasn't necessarily the best Discovery rider to have made the break with Boonen. But hey, Hoste's Belgian, so cut him some slack. Check out the podium, and other pictures, on Graham Watson's excellent site.
And here's today's obligatory Jan Ullrich update on his knee problems: He's "actually optimistic," according to the Cycling News, that he will be in good form for the Tour de France. "The final reckoning will be in Paris," Ullrich said, according to the Cycling News. "You shouldn't write Ullrich off quite yet."
(Don't you love it when people talk about themselves in the third person?)
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Monday, April 03, 2006
The Answer? These Days, It's Tom Boonen
Maybe no one wanted a ride on 53rd Tooth's handlebars (see previous item)?
The answer to yesterday's question (who won the 2005 Tour of Flanders) is the answer to who won the 2006 Tour of Flanders: defending World Champion Tom Boonen of Belgium. I believe I heard OLN's Phil Liggitt say that Boonen was the first ToF winner and defending world champion since another Belgian, Eddie Merckx. Not bad, eh?
What really impressed me (beyond the fact the Boonen is the dominant rider in cycling right now) was the 2-3 finish of Team Disovery's Leif Hoste (of Belgium!) and George Hincapie. In an OLN interview after the race, Hincapie said that Hoste's breakaway with Boonen wasn't planned, and he seemed to indicate that Hoste wasn't necessarily the best Discovery rider to have made the break with Boonen. But hey, Hoste's Belgian, so cut him some slack. Check out the podium, and other pictures, on Graham Watson's excellent site.
And here's today's obligatory Jan Ullrich update on his knee problems: He's "actually optimistic," according to the Cycling News, that he will be in good form for the Tour de France. "The final reckoning will be in Paris," Ullrich said, according to the Cycling News. "You shouldn't write Ullrich off quite yet."
(Don't you love it when people talk about themselves in the third person?)
The answer to yesterday's question (who won the 2005 Tour of Flanders) is the answer to who won the 2006 Tour of Flanders: defending World Champion Tom Boonen of Belgium. I believe I heard OLN's Phil Liggitt say that Boonen was the first ToF winner and defending world champion since another Belgian, Eddie Merckx. Not bad, eh?
What really impressed me (beyond the fact the Boonen is the dominant rider in cycling right now) was the 2-3 finish of Team Disovery's Leif Hoste (of Belgium!) and George Hincapie. In an OLN interview after the race, Hincapie said that Hoste's breakaway with Boonen wasn't planned, and he seemed to indicate that Hoste wasn't necessarily the best Discovery rider to have made the break with Boonen. But hey, Hoste's Belgian, so cut him some slack. Check out the podium, and other pictures, on Graham Watson's excellent site.
And here's today's obligatory Jan Ullrich update on his knee problems: He's "actually optimistic," according to the Cycling News, that he will be in good form for the Tour de France. "The final reckoning will be in Paris," Ullrich said, according to the Cycling News. "You shouldn't write Ullrich off quite yet."
(Don't you love it when people talk about themselves in the third person?)
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