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• Philippe Gilbert Winning Streak Continues At Tour of Lombardy
  October 17th, 2009
  

  Belgian Philippe Gilbert won his fourth race in a row as his hot streak continued with victory in Saturday’s Tour of Lombardy over 242km from Varese to Cuomo.
  Gilbert beat breakaway companion and Spanish Olympic champion Samuel Sanchez in a two-man sprint to win the last Classic of the [...]

• Philippe Gilbert Wins Paris-Tours – Again
  October 11th, 2009
  

  TOURS, France, Oct 11, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian Philippe Gilbert, riding for Silence, on Sunday won the Paris-Tours semi classic race over 230km for the second straight year.
  Gilbert saw off compatriot Tom Boonen and Slovenia’s Borut Bozic in a three-man dash for the line with Italian Filippo Pozzato beating [...]

• Gilbert Heads Up Belgian World Champs Team
  September 15th, 2009
  

  BRUSSELS, Sept 14, 2009 (AFP) – Philippe Gilbert will lead the Belgian cycling team at the upcoming world road race championships it was announced by coach Carlo Bomans on Monday.
  Bomans explained that Gilbert would be their main hope because he believed that the route for the road race on September 27 [...]

• Gilbert Wins Giro 20th Stage, Menchov Keeps Pink
  May 30th, 2009
  

  by Jean Montois
  ANAGNI, Italy, May 30, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian Philippe Gilbert of the Lotto team won the 20th stage of the Tour of Italy over 203km from Naples to Anagni on Saturday as Russian Denis Menchov held onto the overall lead.
  Gilbert sprang away from the [...]

• An Emotional Stijn Devolder Defends His Flanders Crown
  April 5th, 2009
  

  Belgium’s Stijn Devolder won the 261.5km Tour of Flanders spring classic cycle race for the second year in a row here on Sunday.
  Germany’s Heinrich Haussler (Cervelo) finished second, with Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) third ahead of a big crash in the race’s closing stages that saw a number [...]

• Gilbert Makes His Departure A Little Less Painful By Winning Paris-Tours race
  October 12th, 2008
  

  by Jean Montois
  TOURS, France, Oct 12, 2008 (AFP) – Belgian one-day specialist Philippe
  Gilbert handed his Francaise des Jeux team the ideal farewell gift by winning
  his maiden one-day classic at Paris-Tours on Sunday.
  Gilbert’s first victory in the 102nd edition of the race, held over 252km,
  comes only weeks before he ends [...]

• Boonen and Gilbert Lead Belgium’s Worlds Charge
  September 13th, 2008
  

  BRUSSELS, Sept 12, 2008 (AFP) – Former world champion Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert will spearhead Belgium’s bid for the world road race championships’ rainbow jersey later this month.
  Both riders are among a strong nine-man team, announced by the Belgian cycling league (RLVB) Friday, which also includes tyro Greg [...]

• Bettini Wins Tour of Spain Sixth Stage, Chavanel Takes Golden Jersey
  September 4th, 2008
  

  TOLEDO, Spain, Sept 4, 2008 (AFP) – Italian rider Paolo Bettini of Quick
  Step won the sixth stage of the Tour of Spain on Thursday, a 150.1 kilometer
  course from Ciudad Real to Toledo, while France’s Sylvain Chavanel of Cofidis
  took the overall lead.
  Bettini came in ahead of Belgium’s Philippe Gilbert of Francaise des Jeux
  in while [...]

• Gilbert and Casar To Lead Francaise des Jeux Team At Tour de France
  June 30th, 2008
  

  SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS, France, June 29, 2008 (AFP) – French outfit Francaise des Jeux on Sunday announced that Philippe Gilbert and Sandy Casar would lead its team, which includes three Tour novices, at this weekend’s Tour de France.
  “The choice was not easy because three-quarters of the guys were on the [...]

• Philippe Gilbert Signs With Silence-Lotto Today
  June 5th, 2008
  

  Gilbert moves up a gear at Silence-Lotto
  BRUSSELS, June 5, 2008 (AFP) – One-day race specialist Philippe Gilbert will be looking to boost his victory chances after signing for Belgium’s second-biggest cycling team, Silence-Lotto, here Thursday.
  The 26-year-old Gilbert, who earlier this season won the Het Volk one-day classic for the [...]