13-Feb-2013: After a fall during training yesterday, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, Gert Steegmans has suffered a small fracture to his right thumb, as well as a gash on his right hand, which required five stitches. “I was riding back towards Monaco after training and simulating some sprints. In a split second I ended up on the ground. Right away I could tell there was something wrong with my right … [Read more...]
Gert Steegmans Falls During Training And Fractures His Right Thumb
February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team Resigns Riders
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team has resigned several of its riders for 2013 and beyond. Gert Steegmans, Julien Vermote, Niki Terpstra, and Nikolas Maes all renewed their contracts for the next two years (2013-2014). Matteo Trentin, Stijn Vandenbergh and Andy Fenn, whose prior contract agreements all ended in 2013, have extended their respective contracts until the end of 2014. "We … [Read more...]
Quick-Step Cycling Team to Batibouw
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1st, members of the Quick-Step Cycling Team will be guests at the Quick-Step stand at the Batibouw trade show. Led by Tom Boonen and Gert Steegmans, all the Belgian riders from the team, as well as Dutchman Addy Engels, will be present. “The date at Batibouw has become a team tradition,” commented Boonen. “For the team this is an important chance to stand side … [Read more...]
Freire Sprints To Impressive Paris-Tours Win
October 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
TOURS, France - Rabobank's Oscar Freire became the first Spaniard to win the Paris-Tours one-day classic Sunday when he out sprinted Italy's Angelo Furlan and Belgian Gert Steegmans at the finish line. Freire, a former three-time world champion who won Milan-San Remo this year, beat Lampre sprinter Furlan in a furious finish to the 233km classic, with Steegmans, of team RadioShack, two bike … [Read more...]
Gert Steegmans Fractures Collar Bone
March 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Paris - 7th March, 2010 - Team RadioShack’s Gert Steegmans broke his left collarbone in the Prologue of Paris-Nice. Steegmans was caught in a whirlwind while on his bike. The wind picked him up off the ground while he was going 75kph/47mph on a downhill section of the course. In addition to the fracture, Steegmans suffered from a big contusion of the shoulder muscle and has road rash all … [Read more...]
Steegmans and Vaitkus in Belgium’s Opening Weekend
February 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus will race in the opening weekend’s races of the Belgian cycling season. Their participation was questionable after crashes in the third and first stages of last week’s Tour of Algarve. Gert Steegmans suffered a concussion after landing on his head in stage three. After three days rest he did a 50 kilometer training ride on Tuesday, followed by a 6 hour … [Read more...]
Greipel, Armstrong Survive Pile-Up Down Under
January 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Written by: Talek Harris ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 19, 2010 (AFP) - Andre Greipel survived a mass pile-up which floored dozens of riders to win the Tour Down Under's first stage on Tuesday, as cycling legend Lance Armstrong also escaped unscathed. The 2008 champion from Germany, whose title defense ended in a horror crash with a police motorbike last year, praised slick work from … [Read more...]
Popovych, Steegmans Boost Armstrong’s Tour Down Under Team
December 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
SYDNEY, Dec 3, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France stage winners Yaroslav Popovych and Gert Steegmans will boost Lance Armstrong’s Team RadioShack when it makes its worldwide debut at Australia’s Tour Down Under, organizers said Thursday. Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong is returning for a second attempt at the first UCI ProTour race of the 2010 season, but this time with his new … [Read more...]
Team Radio Shack Signs Rosseler and Steegmans
August 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
BRUSSELS, Aug 26, 2009 (AFP) - Belgians Sebastien Rosseler and Gert Steegmans are set to join Lance Armstrong's new team Radio Shack, according to reports in several Belgian newspapers Wednesday. According to Het Nieuwsblad, Rosseler, 28, will quit Quick Step at the end of the season to sign a two-year deal with Radio Shack -- which is set to be managed by current Astana team manager Johan … [Read more...]
Three Riders Refuse Katusha Anti-Doping Rules
June 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Three prominent members of the Katusha cycling team are refusing to comply with new anti-doping rules imposed by the Russian-backed outfit, a team official said on Sunday. The trio who are refusing to sign contracts including the new conditions are Australian Robbie McEwen and Belgians Gert Steegmans and Kenny De Haes, Katusha's sporting director Serge Parsani told Bicycle.net. Under … [Read more...]