Past is Preview: Historic Ronde Footage

The 1989 version has excellent video of classic Ronde-scenes.

This means I will get nothing at all done on Saturday, watching these repeatedly as prep for Sunday.

I wish I spoke or understood dutch.

Or, “le cadute grande di Fiandre.” Oy! Forgot that Boonen bit it at one point.

And H\o/ste… niagara falls in the interviews. Poor guy.

That Merckx victory is quite impressive. He rode in front for almost the entire race. Won the thing with a lead of 5 minutes.

1959 (1.6 MB), 1969 (4 MB), 1989 (18 MB), 1994 (25 MB), 1999 (23 MB), 2004 (7 MB), 2005 (9 MB), 2006 (13 MB), 2007 (12 MB), 2008 (14 MB).

I know a lot about whaling. In fact, I’m quite obsessed.

Has a bunch of vid. Go here and scroll down a bit.

than RVV 2004 to see the tragic arc that would describe \o/’s career.

Wessemen played him like a fiddle, knowing full well that he was incapable of letting another Belgian go up the road. All he had to do was wait…