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De Ronde van Vlaanderen's top favorites give their takes on Sunday's big race
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De Ronde van Vlaanderen's top favorites give their takes on Sunday's big race
Fabian Cancellara is aiming for a record-breaking fourth career Tour of Flanders title this Sunday
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"It's no coincidence that the record holders for the Tour of Flanders have only won it three times," says Flanders hopeful Peter Sagan.
Tom Boonen and the Belgian Etixx super team aren't concerned about criticism heading into Tour of Flanders, the season's biggest race.
We asked top riders and sport directors who they think will win the Tour of Flanders and who could pull off a surprise victory.
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The Tour of Flanders is the greatest one-day race on the pro calendar, requiring a combination of strength and acumen found nowhere else.
GC rider Jakob Fuglsang looks out of place at Tour of Flanders, but the Danish climber says he just wants to try something new.
The British team says its roster for this weekend's Tour of Flanders is the strongest lineup it's ever fielded in the race.
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With victories in both the Ardennes and Flanders, Michal Kwiatkowski is proving to be one of this generation's most versatile riders.
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Veteran sport director Dirk Demol has worked with both riders, and he tells VeloNews one of them holds a slight edge in the classics.
The Czech rider is looking for a major victory in the spring classics as a member of the powerful Etixx – Quick-Step squad.
Friday's E3 Harelbeke will go on as planned, despite Tuesday's attacks in Brussels, and Belgian Greg Van Avermaet is an outright favorite.
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Elizabeth Armitstead repeats as Trofeo Alfredo Binda winner
The VeloNews editors weigh on on their picks to win Sunday's third Women's WorldTour of 2016, Trofeo Alfredo Binda.
Two major Italian races are on the menu: Men face Milano-Sanremo, while the Women's WorldTour rides the hills of Trofeo Alfredo Binda.
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Fabian Cancellara is on winning form so far this season, which bodes well for one final run at the Milano-Sanremo monument.
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Vincenzo Nibali and Astana threaten to skip Giro after missing out on Tirreno queen stage, illustrating rift in peloton over extreme weather protocol.
Leah Kirchmann is quickly settling into her new digs, notching Liv – Plantur's first win of 2016 in Sunday's Drentse Acht van Westerveld
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Boels – Dolmans racks up another Women's WorldTour victory as Chantal Blaak wins Saturday's Ronde van Drenthe
The Women's WorldTour goes Dutch, Paris-Nice wraps up with a climber's delight, and Tirreno offers its only mountaintop finish.
Zdenek Stybar breaks free after the final climb and rides the remaining 3km to victory over a group of hungry chasers.
Tom Boonen may have been complaining about the cold in Paris-Nice Monday, but his form is heating up for the classics.
Strade Bianche was the first race the inaugural Women's WorldTour, and it started the 2016 season with a bang.
Fabian Cancellara talks about priorities in his final racing season and a bet to win lots of wine from team sponsor Massimo Zanetti.
Americans were racing throughout Europe at Le Samyn, Strade Bianche, Paris-Nice, and beyond, in Taiwan and Tour de Langkawi.
Images from the always-scenic Strade Bianche through the lens of BrakeThrough Media
In her two outings wearing the rainbow stripes, world champion Elizabeth Armitstead has racked up two victories
The first weekend of March offers dirty racing on Italy's white roads, the WorldTour's second race at Paris-Nice, and action in Belgium.
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Though Frank Schleck jokingly calls Cancellara a "diva," he says the Swiss champ is one of the best of all time.
After a long injury layoff, Marianne Vos returns to face a deeper women's peloton and more confident rivals. Oh, it's on.
After a breakout performance in the 2015 Giro d'Italia, Landa is slow to start racing this spring, raising questions about his health.
Petr Vakoc claims Drôme Classic title ahead of Jan Bakelants
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Organizers Eddy Merckx and Dirk De Pauw look ahead to the future of the two Middle Eastern races, which could be added to the WorldTour.
Three of Sky's new riders — Kwiatkowski, Landa, and Intxausti — are suffering minor illnesses in the early stages of the spring season.
Bob Jungels races to a 6-second victory in the opening stage at the Tour of Oman, showing his new Etixx teammates he has the legs to win.
German Trixi Worrack and her Canyon-SRAM team are off to a good start with a win at Ladies Tour of Qatar.
Shelly Olds has ambitions beyond the Olympics
Peter Sagan says the road race course at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics is too hilly for him to be considered a medal contender.
The 35-year-old has some new race targets this season — the Giro d'Italia and the Tour of Flanders — and wants an Olympic medal.
Simon Gerrans endured a 2015 season filled with crashes and injuries, but he hopes his Tour Down Under win is a sign of things to come.
Michal Kwiatkowski says he's going to work on his climbing abilities this year and attempt to become a protected rider in grand tours.
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The German will race some of the northern classics this season before turning his focus to winning medals in Rio and Qatar.
Movistar manager Eusebio Unzué tells a Spanish news outlet that Alejandro Valverde has "insinuated" he could race the 2016 Vuelta.
Taylor Phinney is still feeling the effects of a 2014 crash, but he's hopeful he can compete at races such as Paris-Roubaix in April.
Lizzie Armitstead's bold move in the finale of road worlds earns her Ride of the Year, and more importantly, the rainbow jersey.
Boels riders collected buckets of wins in 2015, and Lizzie Armitstead won the overall World Cup title.
Megan Guarnier's medal-winning ride at worlds earns her this honor, while Tejay van Garderen's consistent riding nets him the men's award.
RCS Mediagroup unveils a three-year plan that it hopes will strengthen its business, which includes keeping its lineup of 10 cycling races.
The Swiss star will retire at the end of next season, a campaign during which he hopes to win a monument and lead the Giro d'Italia.
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Andrey Amador registered the best grand tour finish of any Central-American rider in 2015, but next year he will work for Alejandro Valverde.
Zdenek Stybar will pass on a shot at a fourth world cyclocross title to prepare for a run at the northern classics next spring
Vincenzo Nibali will race the Giro d'Italia in May, but he might use the Tour de France as final prep for the Olympic road race in Rio.
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The Spanish squad will send Alejandro Valverde to the Giro d'Italia, the first time he's raced the Italian grand tour.
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The second-largest promoter of pro cycling races may be forced to sell some of its classic events like the Giro d'Italia.
The men's and women's Strade Bianche races will feature the tough, twisty white gravel roads for which Tuscany is famous.
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