Tag: Zdenek Stybar
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Zdenek Stybar flashes a toothy smile after winning stage six
Earlier in the year, during the Tour of Flanders, Zdenek Stybar had to take his false teeth out because they were rattling. “It’s difficult to say how the loss of my teeth affected my performance,” he said. He came ninth. Would he have done better with them in or would he have done worse? A…
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Alexander Kristoff, the jetpowered truck
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking ‘did Greg Van Avermaet come second in the Tour of Flanders?’. No, he didn’t. He came third. After the race, Avermaet said he thought he had the legs to win, but I don’t know about that. Alexander Kristoff looked like a big rumbling juggernaut that could have rolled…
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Cobbled classics riders to watch
Happy New Year and welcome to The Year of the Cobble. I was going to pay a bit more attention to the cobbled classics anyway, but it’s also worth following them to get a feel for this kind of racing ahead of the cobbled stage of the Tour de France – a day that could…
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The fat tyres of Zdenek Stybar
The finish of stage seven wasn’t quite as exciting as the finish of stage six. It wasn’t bad though. The world champion who can’t win a race, Phil Gilbert, and the two-time cyclocross world champion who can, Zdenek Stybar, hovered a few seconds in front of the peloton for the last 9km and thanks to…
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Zdenek Stybar keeps it clean at the Eneco Tour
If you don’t know the Eneco Tour, think of it as being the Tour de Benelux. It’s a spring classics style seven-stage race where the winner is invariably more humanoid looking than the Grand Tour skeletons. It’s all about sprint finishes and short, steep climbs rather than long, Alpine slogs. This year’s winner was Zdenek…
