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No Paris-Roubaix for Tom Boonen after Flanders crash

2012 champion Tom Boonen ended his title defense with a trip to the hospital. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.comOUDENAARDE, Belgium (VN) — Tom Boonen won’t be starting Paris-Roubaix after crashing out of the Tour of Flanders, team management announced Sunday. The defending champion was in the main field at the time of the crash, and ended up off to the side of the road, lying on the ground for the second time in a week; he crashed at Ghent-Wevelgem last Sunday, and abandoned shortly...

Gallery: 2013 Tour of Flanders

Fabian Cancellara time trialing to victory in Flanders. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.com

Fabian Cancellara wins 2013 Tour of Flanders

Fabian Cancellara wins the 2013 Tour of Flanders. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.comOUDENAARDE, Belgium (VN) — Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard) won the 100th-anniversary Ronde van Vlaanderen on Sunday, dispatching fellow favorite Peter Sagan (Cannondale) on the Paterberg and soloing to victory. The two, with Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto Belisol), had been off the front going into the Paterberg after Cancellara had a dig on the Kwaremont, but the bunch was closing fast in the final...

Cadel Evans adds Giro d’Italia to 2013 racing schedule

Cadel Evans riding in the pack during stage 1 of the 2013 Criterium International. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.comPARIS (VN) — Australia’s Cadel Evans has added the Giro d’Italia to his schedule for the season, BMC Racing announced on Saturday. It will be the first of two grand tours for the 36-year-old, with Evans also set to race in the Tour de France, which he won in 2011. “”The team will put everything into the Tour de France,” Evans said in a statement published on BMC’s...

Can Geraint Thomas win Flanders? He doesn’t see why not

Geraint Thomas (left) will be Sky's best hope against the remorseless Peter Sagan. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.comKORTRIJK, Belgium (VN) — And then there was one. Sky’s Geraint Thomas on Friday was named the leader of the squad for the Ronde Van Vlaanderen , taking up the British team’s mantle in the second monument of the year. He certainly isn’t the favorite — that distinction is shared by Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard). But in Sky he has a...

grahamwatson10: http://twitpic.com/caz47g Name the famous team manager, as a cyclist caught up in this 1988 Milan-San Remo spill...

grahamwatson10: Name the famous team manager, as a cyclist caught up in this 1988 Milan-San Remo spill...

grahamwatson10: http://twitpic.com/cayx3a Easiest one of the day - who's this young TT hopeful..?

grahamwatson10: Easiest one of the day - who's this young TT hopeful..?

grahamwatson10: http://twitpic.com/cayw69 Tougher test now - name man on moto, now a big race-organiser...

grahamwatson10: Tougher test now - name man on moto, now a big race-organiser...

Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise

In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. While excerpts of that interview made it into the post, the transcript of the entire interview was so good it deserved to be published in its entirety. ************************ Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can...

Preview: Classics masters set to build foundation in Qatari wind

The Tour of Qatar enjoys one of the most unique local flares in the sport. Photo: Graham Watson | www.grahamwatson.comDOHA (VN) — The Tour of Qatar opens Sunday and gets riders into gear ahead of the spring classics back in Europe. The six-day stage race in the Arabian Gulf will see classics stars such as Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard) mixing it up with sprinters like Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) in an attempt to polish their form for the cobbles. “We get more and more...