The Best and Worst of Modern Society

On Sunday I watched two programs which really highlighted the best and worst of modern society. Two contrasting examples of the role models we give our kids. The first was a documentary on the 2004 Hawaii Ironman on Universal Sport. Really well made with fantastic filming of this spectacular island and some excellent sub stories […]

Great day for the Brits in Corsica

Sunday was a great day for British cycling at the Criterium International in Corsica. Unless it’s Mark Cavendish road wins are a rare thing, but two in one day is unheard of! Russell Downing won the criterium stage in the morning. This was actually the first win for a British rider on Team Sky! Downing […]

Spring Classics – Who is Fit and Healthy?

As expected this was an aggressive race with the Tour of Flanders next week all the top specialists are really coming into form now. Tom Boonen is always under pressure to deliver in front of his home fans. He showed up fit and healthy and didn’t fail through lack of trying! We had the usual […]

Belgian Classics – Great Weekend Ahead!

Another big weekend in Flanders – the Belgian Classics come thick and fast now! After Het Volk and that epic from KBK a few weeks back we had Dwars in the week and two more semi-classics coming this weekend. On Saturday we have E3 and then a revamped Gent Wevelgem moved to the Sunday rather […]

The Importance of being Fit and Healthy

Oscar Freire won a tough Milan – San Remo at the weekend proving again that when he is fit and healthy, he is tough to beat at the end of these longer more selective races. He may not be as prolific as some of his younger sprint rivals, but three MSR wins and three World […]

Belgian Classics – The real Cycling Season starts here!

And so to Flanders and the first two semi-classics of the year: – Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne! Omloop Het Nieuwsblad or Het Volk as it has been known for most of its 63 editions is nearly always won by a Belgian, right? Big surprise, for the first time ever no Belgian even on the podium! […]

“Year of the Sprinter”, but get ready for the Classics!

For me last weekend’s Belgian semi-classics Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne are when the bike racing season really starts to get serious. There are really only two popular sports in Belgium soccer and cycling and if you win on the Flemish cobbles national hero status is awarded automatically! No disrespect to races like the Tour Down […]

“Game Bird” – A New Social Media Phenomenon!

Over the weekend I experienced a new social media phenomenon.“Watching” sports on Twitter! It started Sunday morning when I was looking for a live video feed to watch Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne one of the early season “Belgian Classic” bike races. For non cycling fans, these races are notorious for being run on bad roads and usually in […]