2022 4 DAYS OF DUNKIRK The Old Warrior strikes again!

            Thursday, May 5: Stage 3, Péronne - Mont Saint Eloi, 170 km
Since his last big win, Paris-Roubaix 2019, things had gone a bit quiet around PHILIPPE GILBERT. But during the Four Days of Dunkirk ' The Old Man' delivered another lesson in racing 'old warrior style' ...*
2022 is the last racing year for the 39-year-old Walloon Belgian.
Philippe Gilbert (1982) is considered one of the best cyclists Belgium has known.
A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris–Tours twice (2008, 2009), the Giro di Lombardia twice (2009, 2010), the Amstel Gold Race four times (2010, 2011, 2014, 2017), La Flèche Wallonne (2011), Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2011), the Clásica de San Sebastián (2011), the Tour of Flanders (2017) and Paris–Roubaix (2019). 
 Gilbert became world champion in 2012 on his beloved Cauberg from the Amstel Gold Race. Gilbert was Belgian champion in 2011 and 2016.
He has also won stages at each of the three Grand Tours: three stages in the Giro d'Italia, one stage in the Tour de France and seven stages in the Vuelta.
Another anecdote: during the 2018 Tour de France, he had a nasty crash in a bend during the 16th stage and tumbled a few meters into an abyss. Gilbert nevertheless finished the stage and also received the prize for the fighting spirit that day. He had to give up after this stage because of a broken kneecap...

* after winning the third stage, Philippe Gilbert now also took the win in the general classification of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque.

(photo "Het Nieuwsblad", May 6, 2022)

   

Taken in: France / Hauts-de-France / Arras / Arras (show map)

Taken on: May 16, 2022

Tags:

belgian cyclists

philippe gilbert

classic monument race

world champion road cycling

belgian champion

road cycling

tour de france

giro d'italia

vuelta a espana « less

Sets appears in: • A Passion for Cycling

Groups appears in: • cycling • Bike Nation more » • Bicycle Racing • CYCLOMANIA • PRO CYCLING GROUP • CYCLING HISTORY: The begining to modern « less

Stats: 1,350 views / 1 comment

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder