A Flanders filled EuroTrash Monday and the star of the show has to be Alexander Kristoff. De Ronde and De Panne both got the Norwegian domination. Race reports, results, rider quotes and video from Belgium, Limburg and GP Indurain. Previews from Basque Country and Dauphin, news from Quick-Step, Van den Broeck and Tour of Americas Dairyland Race Venues.TOP STORY: No Win for Etixx – Quick-StepThe spring is just not going the way of the Etixx – Quick-Step team, this is the time of year that the Belgian based team should be racking up the victories and even though they have the fire power… no wins in the most important races. Yes the team lost Tom Boonen, yes Zdenek Stybar has been having teeth problems and yes Stijn Vandenbergh still hasn’t got a clue about team tactics, but they still have Niki Terpstra and the weight of a country’s expectations on their shoulders. It could be worse, Sky had a new fancy bike and the promise of Bradley Wiggins as a domestique, neither of them seemed to work and Geraint Thomas finished 14th.De Ronde van Vlaanderen 2015Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) won the 2015 Ronde van Vlaanderen by out-sprinting his breakaway companion Niki Terpstra (Etixx – Quick-Step), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) was third ahead of his chase partner Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo). Kristoff and Terpstra had a lead of seven seconds over Van Avermaet, at one point had 30 seconds over the chasers, but Terpstra stopped helping the Norwegian on the run in to...
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