HET VOLK AS IT HAPPENED: GILBERT SHINES THROUGH

Gilbert Het Volk 1
(Image credit: LUC CLAESSEN)

Het Volk, as it happened. All you need to know about the opening race of the Classics season.

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Sports journalist Lionel Birnie has written professionally for Sunday Times, Procycling and of course Cycling Weekly. He is also an author, publisher, and co-founder of The Cycling Podcast. His first experience covering the Tour de France came in 1999, and he has presented The Cycling Podcast with Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe since 2013. He founded Peloton Publishing in 2010 and has ghostwritten and published the autobiography of Sean Kelly, as well as a number of other sports icons.