Here’s everything you need to know about this mini-Tour of Flanders: The E3 Saxo Classic begins and ends in Harelbeke, a ...
the sight of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert immediately latching onto his attack during Friday's E3 Saxo Classic removed it. Gone are the days of Juan Antonio Flecha and Oscar Freire ...
Belgium's Wout van Aert on Friday will attempt to become just the fourth man to win three successive E3 Saxo Classic titles with arch-rival Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel also in his sights. The E3 ...
World champion Mathieu van der Poel won a war of attrition with arch-rival Wout van Aert on Friday to claim the first of cycling's cobbled classics, the E3 Saxo. Van der Poel first opened a gap ...
For years, the road to victory in the cobbled Classics ran through Patrick Lefevere’s teams. Even on the rare afternoons when they were beaten, they always extracted a heavy toll from their rivals.
Like Friday’s E3 Saxo Classic, the course of Dwars door Vlaanderen lends itself to aggressive racing–especially during the portion of the race that loops through the Flemish hills south of ...
As a result, many riders treat this event as their Tour of Flanders dress rehearsal, and nine have won the E3 Classic and then the Tour of Flanders a little over a week later. The race begins ...