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Cycling news that derails a little, as horscourse.be tells it: classics, grand tours, the Belgians and cyclocross, by four fictional columnists. Every dispatch is read on horscourse.be.
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Slovakia sends its soigneur to the Worlds, Rik knows the way to the bidons
Robbed of its three selected riders, who pulled out at the last minute, the Slovak federation will send Vladimir Kovacik, 28, a soigneur and former rider, to the men’s elite road race…
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Evenepoel in room 226, Van Aert in 221: Myriam notes the numbers, no comment
At the Hotel Mortagne, Remco Evenepoel shares room 226 with Maxim Van Gils, Wout van Aert room 221 with Tiesj Benoot. Team manager Serge Pauwels takes both leaders into Sunday’s road race…
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Belgium to write on bidons in Montreal, Xavier already has his time on his
With no earpieces or radios allowed at the Montreal world championships, the Belgian squad will communicate on Sunday through stickers on the bidons, and perhaps chalkboards. Wout van Aert confirmed the plan…
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Belgium will write its race orders on bidons, Myriam checks the delivery
With earpieces and radio contact banned at the world championships, Belgian Cycling will print messages on its riders’ bidons on Sunday, handed out lap by lap in the feed zones known as…
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Neira wins by sitting on the wheel, Sandrine asks which one and at what pressure
Alejandra Neira, 18, is world champion 2026 in Montreal. Caught in the final kilometres, the Spaniard chose to sit on Maria Okrucińska’s wheel before passing her in the sprint.
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Barry wins solo in Montreal, Myriam looks for the dog in the rulebook
The American Ashlin Barry won the road race world championship in Montreal, in 4:17:35, on his 19th birthday. Héctor Álvarez finished second, 53 seconds back, Jesper Stiansen third.
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Vermeersch dreams of a chip shop, Sandrine asks what temperature the oil runs at
Gianni Vermeersch, the Belgian rider for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe and a former gravel world champion, would rather open a chip shop after his career than become a sports director or a commentator. He…
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Seixas sees Belgium as favourites with two leaders, Rik counts the bidons
Frenchman Paul Seixas sees Belgium as the big favourite for the men’s World Championship, thanks to its two leaders Wout van Aert and Remco Evenepoel. French national coach Thomas Voeckler answers that…
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Merckx recalls Thévenet’s 1974 breakaway, Rik knows how it ends
Eddy Merckx told RTBF that in 1974 in Montreal, France’s Bernard Thévenet rode alone off the front for a hundred kilometres before being caught seven kilometres from the line, the year Merckx…
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Seixas wants the rainbow jersey or nothing on Sunday, Xavier has a false flat too
Paul Seixas, France’s team leader and bronze medallist in the time trial behind Remco Evenepoel, wants the world road race title on Sunday in Montreal. He said as much at a press…
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Three Red Bull-BORA riders in Belgium’s squad, Myriam checks no quota is exceeded
Belgium’s squad for Sunday’s World Championships in Montreal includes three Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe riders: Maxim Van Gils, Remco Evenepoel and Gianni Vermeersch. Van Gils denies forming a clan and says he is ready…
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Motor-paced racing returns in 2027, Rik admits it’s his sport
The UCI’s Management Committee has added motor-paced racing to the 2027 UCI Track World Championships programme in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Absent from the Worlds since 1994, the discipline, where a rider shelters behind a…