• running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race was held on 5 April 1987. It was won by Claude Criquielion after a 10 km solo breakaway. 88 of 233 starters...
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    race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organized by Flanders Classics. Its nickname is Vlaanderens Mooiste (Dutch for "Flanders' Finest")...
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    Adri van der Poel (category Dutch Tour de France stage winners)
    1st Stage 16 Tour de France 3rd Tour of Flanders 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 1989 1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen...
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  • The 72nd running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on 3 April 1988. It was won by Eddy Planckaert in a two-man sprint with Australian Phil...
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    westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, forming the central portion of the historic County of Flanders are also still collectively...
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  • The 86th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race in Belgium was held on Sunday 7 April 2002. It was the second leg of the 2002 UCI Road World Cup...
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  • The 70th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race was held on 6 April 1986. It was won by Dutch rider Adrie van der Poel in a four-man sprint before...
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    Sean Kelly (cyclist) (category Irish Tour de France stage winners)
    the Tour of Flanders. Other victories include the Grand Prix des Nations and stage races, the Critérium International, Tour de Suisse, Tour of the Basque...
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    2008 and stages of Tour of Siam and Tour of Qinghai Lake in 2006. He has said that his favourite race is the Tour of Flanders, one of the two major Cobbled...
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    Alexander Kristoff (category 1987 births)
    His biggest victories have been the 2014 Milan–San Remo and the 2015 Tour of Flanders among many other successes. At six, he moved from Oslo to Stavanger...
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  • the Wednesday before the Tour of Flanders, Flanders' foremost cycling classic, held on Sunday. Since 2012, a women's edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen is...
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    Koppenberg (category Tour of Flanders)
    "children's heads". This climb is part of the route of the Tour of Flanders professional cycling race and feared by many because of its steepness (22% on the trickiest...
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    Moreno Argentin (category Italian Tour de France stage winners)
    Liège–Bastogne–Liège four times, the La Flèche Wallonne three times, and the Tour of Flanders and Giro di Lombardia once. He became Italian national champion in...
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  • inaugural Belgian Road Cycling Cup. The race starts in Poperinge, West Flanders, and finishes in Tournai, Hainaut, and is now only run on Belgian soil...
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    joined the top group, finishing second in the Tour of Flanders on three occasions (1984, 1986 and 1987). Kelly is the only other rider, after Merckx,...
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    Jesper Skibby (category Danish Tour de France stage winners)
    stage, as well as numerous individual stages in other races. In the 1987 Tour of Flanders, he was leading the race when his bike got driven over by a race...
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  • The Tour de France (French pronunciation: [tuʁ də fʁɑ̃s]; English: Tour of France) is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France...
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    Patrick Lefevere (category Cyclists from West Flanders)
    Paris–Roubaix and in the Tour of Flanders, won a World Championship and took home the green jersey in the 2007 Tour. In the early years of 2000, the team could...
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    Briek Schotte (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
    stage of the 1947 Tour de France and finished second in the 1948 Tour, behind Gino Bartali. He twice won the Tour of Flanders (1942, 1948), Paris–Tours (1946...
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    Bruges (redirect from Bruges, West Flanders)
    is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country. It is the sixth most...
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    Championship title. Wins his first UCI World Tour stage race, BinckBank Tour. Wins his first Monument, Tour of Flanders. 2021 Wins his fourth UCI Cyclo-cross...
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    Gianni Bugno (category Italian Tour de France stage winners)
    1994 he won the Tour of Flanders. Bugno's greatest success was the double victory in the World Championship. In 1991 he beat Steven Rooks of the Netherlands...
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  • Award for Album of the Year in 1969. With the international standardisation of the Beatles' catalogue in 1987, Magical Mystery Tour became the only Capitol-generated...
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    Belgium (redirect from Kingdom of Belgium)
    year-on-year growth of 2.7%. There is a large economic gap between Flanders and Wallonia. Wallonia was historically wealthy compared to Flanders, mostly due to...
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    Brabantse Pijl (category UCI Europe Tour races)
    fixed date of the Brabantse Pijl shifted from the Sunday before the Tour of Flanders to the Wednesday before the Amstel Gold Race. In 2011, the race was...
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    and Flanders (with more gallery-going and art appreciation) before returning across the Channel to England. Published accounts of the Grand Tour provided...
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    Fabian Cancellara (category Swiss Tour de France stage winners)
    champion in Flanders". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2013. "Fabian Cancellara wins the Tour of Flanders". The...
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    His character was mooned by Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) at the end of the third episode of season six. Cox's first role in a big-budget film came...
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    Johan Museeuw (category Sportspeople from West Flanders)
    considered one of the best classic races specialists of the 1990s. He won both the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix three times and was road world champion...
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  • Best (1964) One Way Pendulum (1964) Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) The Big Job (1965) Carry On Cowboy (1965)...
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