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Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads.Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators.
Henri "Rik" Van Looy (20 December 1933 – 17 December 2024) was a Belgian professional cyclist of the post-war period. Nicknamed the King of the Classics or Emperor of Herentals (after the small Belgian city where he lived), he dominated the classic cycle races in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Lotte Kopecky (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɔtə koːˈpɛki]; born 10 November 1995) is a Belgian road and track racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team SD Worx–Protime, and the 2023 and 2024 UCI Elite Women's World Road Race Champion. [7]
The 2021 UCI Road World Championships was the 94th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing.It was held between 19 and 26 September 2021 in the Flanders region of Belgium.
The UCI Road World Championships Elite Men's Road Race is a one-day event for professional cyclists that takes place annually. The winner is considered the World Cycling Champion (or World Road Cycling Champion) and earns the right to wear the Rainbow Jersey for a full year in road race or stage events.
No rider has ever won all three grand tours in a single calendar year, but three riders - Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Chris Froome - have won all three in a row, split over calendar years. [2] Seven men have won all three grand tours in their career; Gimondi and Hinault have achieved that alongside a career Triple Crown, and Merckx ...
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies races according to a rating scale.. The rating is represented by a code made of two or three parts and indicates both the type or style of race (the first part), and its importance or difficulty (the second and third parts, lower being harder).
Belgium at the 1968 Summer Olympics; IOC code: BEL: NOC: Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee: Website: www.olympic.be (in Dutch and French): in Mexico City; Competitors: 82 (77 men and 5 women) in 13 sports