Philippe Gilbert

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After a winter of training and sacrifices, a resurgent Gilbert wins his third Amstel Gold race with a massive attack on the final ascent

Gilbert won Brabantse Pijl just days ago, a tilt of momentum into Ardennes week. But he doesn't want to be thought of as the man to beat

Belgian former world champion gets his fifth victory since his remarkable 2011 season, and just in time for his favorite races

Former world champion takes his second career victory in the Ardennes tuneup

American Taylor Phinney is ill and may not start Sunday, but BMC Racing is hoping its powerful Sanremo squad will finally deliver a major classics win

BMC's Philippe Gilbert says Milano-Sanremo is an unpredictable race, but within reach

Porte says there are horses for every course and Tirreno-Adriatico offers the most appealing route to the grand tours contenders in 2014

The absence of Chris Froome makes for a more unpredictable GC in Italy

Philippe Gilbert sits down with reporter Matthew Beaudin and talks about finding the sport, expectations, and his legacy

Former world champion says he's had a good off-season, but the top five isn't enough for him

Reports show the route for this year's race offers something for everyone in the field

RCS Sport adds a difficult climb that kicks up to 14 percent late in the race

Rodriguez, Valverde, and Nibali are seeking a victory after coming up short in the worlds road race

Riders 30 years old and above could start to phase out of contention in the worlds road race moving forward

The worlds kicked off with Sunday’s TTT, and the upcoming week is packed with drama — on and off the bike

A few remaining spots on the roster will be filled in the coming days

The pair opts to leave the three-week race and begin final preparations for the upcoming worlds in Italy

With his victory in stage 12 of the Vuelta, Philippe Gilbert ends a drought of almost a full calendar year

The Garmin sprinter comes up short again in stage 12, then vents frustration with the course afterward

Almost a year after earning the rainbow jersey, Philippe Gilbert is finally able to put a check mark in the win column

The Spaniard leads the race through nine stages, but says teammate Joaquim Rodriguez is still the team's GC leader

The Czech rider out-sprints Philippe Gilbert in a furious dash to the line at the end of the seventh stage of the year's third grand tour

The pair breaks away from the peloton with 10km left and holds off the charging group at the finish line

The Belgian won the road race at the 2012 world championships but has yet to triumph in a race this season

Taylor Phinney delivers one of several clutch wins for the squad after Cadel Evans' disappointing Tour de France

A number of riders that finished the Tour de France will line up for Saturday's one-day classic in Spain

U.S.-based squad says it is focused on the GC to gain valuable UCI points

Belgian eyes repeat world title, locks in with American team through 2016

Cannondale rider earns stage victory as Mathias Frank takes overall race lead

Defending world champion has yet to notch a win this season, and says his goal is to earn a stage victory

The Belgian, who says he is familiar with the five-day route, left the Amgen Tour of California to attend the birth of his second child

World champion steps away from California to return home

The world champion is in California for his first U.S. race

American Tour hope is returning to the Amgen Tour with a loaded squad and an eye on his first professional stage race win

Fabian Cancellara and a slew of first-time winners came out on top in the classics, but who didn't?

Ryder Hesjedal's breakaway move late in the race helps set up Dan Martin's victory

Wearing the No. 1 bib for Sunday's race, the Astana rider seems to be just another starter

BMC Racing's classics leader will put all of his effort into winning Sunday's Liège–Bastogne–Liège

The new Côte de Colonster is wider, longer, and more moderate than the Roche aux Faucons, but there isn't a lot of agreement on what that means

On Sunday, 200 men will start the final classic of the spring, but these 11 favorites will be the riders to watch at "La Doyenne"

Tinkering with the course didn't make the Amstel Gold any more or less exciting. It was the riders who dictated the action

The world champion says he's coming into top form in time for his main goal of the spring season

World champion takes good sensation out of Brabantse Pijl and enjoys non-favorite status for Ardennes opener

Backed by the addition of Vincenzo Nibali, Astana could be the team to beat in the upcoming classics races

Peter Sagan points to Philippe Gilbert as top favorite for Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, but isn't discounting his status

Peter Sagan had all the answers on Wednesday at Brabantse Pijl, leaving many rivals wondering how to test him in the Ardennes

After winning the road race at the 2012 world championships, Philippe Gilbert has yet to win a race this season

Though it came without a true showdown against Tom Boonen, Fabian Cancellara's triumphant return to the cobbles proved his place yet again

Gilbert will head for the Tour of the Basque Country; Phinney staying in Italy until Paris-Roubaix

The two riders are not exactly killing it, but the weather hasn't been helping, says team management

World champion Philippe Gilbert kept his cards close on Thursday, but plays his first cobbles hand on Friday in Harelbeke

With historic courses, frenzied fans, and dynamic racing, these men are the ones to watch from Harelbeke to Roubaix

The world champion says he won before, during and after his time at Lotto, and in similar fashion

Cancellara, Gilbert and Chavanel seem like Sagan's strongest rivals for "La Primavera" title

Philippe Gilbert will make a bid for MIlano-Sanremo this weekend aboard his rainbow-striped BMC Teammachine SLR01

BMC rider still looking for his first victory of 2013 after a slow start and says he's yet to hit his peak physical condition for the season

Reigning world champion Philippe Gilbert tells a Dutch magazine that a Flemish separatist party is "extremist"

World champion says he is ready to put a disastrous 2012 spring behind him and isn't ready to cede his Ardennes kingdom to Peter Sagan

A south-to-north route, Mt. Diablo and a Golden Gate Bridge crossing highlight the eight-day, 750-mile race

Caley Fretz goes one-on-one with Philippe Gilbert's BMC Teammachine SLR01

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Slagter's going great, Schleck not so much, and Voigt — he's already on the attack

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World champion will travel to the U.S. for the first time in May to show his rainbow stripes in California

Simon Gerrans and Philippe Gilbert enter the WorldTour season opener as the top favorites for glory Down Under

The WorldTour series may be contrived, with the peloton yet to embrace it, but for the five favorites in 2013, the points chase is on

After sub-par classics run in 2012, world champion Gilbert aims for spring treble at San Remo, Flanders and Liege

Gilbert stormed to a world title and Contador raided the Vuelta, but neither took top spot in Andrew Hood's favorite attacks of the year

World champion wants winning bonuses, former team wants exit fee

Belgian world champion dreams of winning at Lombardia in rainbow stripes

World Champion Philippe Gilbert hopes to showcase his rainbow jersey, and his resurgence, on Saturday with a win at the Giro di Lombardia

After a frustrating spring turned into two Vuelta stage wins, Philippe Gilbert's win on the Cauberg was almost inevitable

Belgian king of the Ardennes erases his disappointing classics campaign with a fierce move to close the Limburg worlds

Boonen and Gilbert are two of the strongest men in the worlds field and both are Belgian. How will they play off one another in Valkenburg?

Gilbert comes through for second victory in Spain

The Belgian needed a victory badly, and the Spaniard needs all the seconds he can get before the Vuelta's ITT

The Belgian strongman finally bounces back to take his first win of the season

The Belgian champ said he was going to attack — and that’s just what he did.

If he can get over the Box Hill climb, which many feel he can, Mark Cavendish is the top favorite for Olympic gold on The Mall