Stig Broeckx at the 2015 Giro d'Italia
Lotto-Soudal rider Stig Broeckx is back riding a stationary bike less than a year after it was feared he might never regain consciousness following a crash.
Broeckx was riding in the 2016 Tour of Belgium when he was hit by a race motorbike, suffering a severe brain injury and being placed in a coma, with doctors fearing he might never regain consciousness.
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'I was doing loads of cocaine... my kids were going to put me into rehab': Bradley Wiggins on recreational drug use, Lance Armstrong's help and finding a new love for cyclingWiggins opens up on the personal trauma which engulfed him post-retirement and put him in some 'very dangerous' situations after he became addicted to cocaine
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Can fixed-gear stadium racing save U.S. cycling fandom? Formula Fixed thinks so'We want to be the series that is going to give a kid their LeBron James of cycling,' say the organisers
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‘Current WorldTour system is killing all the smaller teams,’ says Reinardt Janse van RensburgSouth African ex-Lotto Soudal rider fears more teams could find themselves in B & B Hotels-KTM situation if the system doesn’t change
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Caleb Ewan ‘not going anywhere’ after team's relegation, says Lotto-SoudalSpokesperson for Belgian team says that Ewan has expressed desire to stay and lead the team in 2023
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‘It's not been a great Tour for the sprinters’ - Caleb Ewan rues bad luck at the Tour de France after heavy crash on stage 13Lotto Soudal sprinter involved in nasty crash with a teammate midway through stage into Saint-Étienne
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'I’m still having to pinch myself a little bit, what a ride!' : Reinardt Janse van Rensburg’s journey to a sixth Tour de FranceThe 33 year old South African rider feared his career was over before Lotto Soudal came calling.
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Lotto Soudal pins Tour de France hopes on 'one of the fastest riders of the peloton', Caleb EwanCaleb Ewan, Philippe Gilbert, Andreas Kron and Tim Wellens all make the team's Tour de France lineup
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Racing every race like it's the last of the season: how smaller teams are overperforming this yearLotto-Soudal and Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux have won 11 races between them in 2022 after just 21 in all of last year, so what's going on?
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Meet Florian Vermeersch, the history student and local councillor who finished second at Paris-RoubaixThe Lotto Soudal rider on living up to new expectations, the new approach of his team, and how time trialling helps in the Classics
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Paris-Roubaix runner-up Florian Vermeersch posts incredible ride to StravaThe 22-year-old Belgian put in an astonishing ride on his 'Hell of the North' debut
