Sport

Tour de France honours Eddy Merckx and starts in Brussels

07 June 2017

The Tour de France will start in Brussels in 2019. The most important competitive cycling race is thus honouring cyclist Eddy Merckx. It will have been fifty years since he won his first Tour.

Nina Derwael wins gold in the European Gymnastics Championships

27 April 2017

The 17 year-old Nina Derwael from Velm, in Sint-Truiden, won the gold medal on the uneven bars during the European Gymnastics Championships in Cluj-Napoca in Romania on Saturday 22 April.

Belgians race ahead in the spring classics

27 April 2017

The spring classics now are behind us and Belgium's cyclists did an excellent job. The greatest gluttons were Philippe Gilbert and Greg Van Avermaet.

Belgian track cyclists make history at the World Championships

17 April 2017

Belgium was successful in winning five medals in the track cycling World Championships in Hong Kong.

The Belgian Ugo de Wilde is the world's youngest racing driver

23 March 2017

Ugo de Wilde is, in 2017, the world's youngest racing driver.

In Belgium, sporting passion is black-yellow-red

Who could forget the performances of our champions? Eddy Merckx, nicknamed The Cannibal with his extraordinary record, Stefan Everts and his ten motocross world championship titles and Jacky Ickx, six-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. These are just some of our sporting legends like Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, former tennis number ones with no less than 11 Grand Slam titles between them.

Nafissatou Thiam

Today, those who make us dream include Nafissatou Thiam on the athletics track and Greg Van Avermaet in cycling, not forgetting our formidable Red Devils and their international stars such as Kevin De Bruyne or Eden Hazard.

Red Devils

Alongside the achievements of our sporting ambassadors above, Belgium can also pride itself on organising major sporting events. The Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix in Formula 1, the great cycling classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Memorial Van Damme in athletics, are all examples of unmissable annual meetings…

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