The Ephemerist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sometimes rooting around on Facebook can bring up quite cool results. I was clicking around on some galleries and came across these gems by Flemish illustrators that I hadn’t even heard of before : Stef Van Hyfte (above) and Brecht Vandenbroucke (below). Check them out ! (With thanks to Serge Baeken) Related posts:Flemish Comics In the WorldCentral [...] Related posts: Flemish Comics In the World...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Vorarlberg-Corratec announces first seven riders for 2010 David Zabriskie's Yield to Life seeks safer roads for cyclists Davide Rebellin to lose Olympic medal Floyd Landis leaves OUCH Pro Cycling Semple gets Bibanese birthday present MSG’s president surprised by Landis exit McQuaid: Kolobnev to get Beijing bronze medal Frank Vandenbroucke's family refuse further tests
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The family of the late Frank Vandenbroucke has decided not to carry out toxicological tests to determine whether or not the 34-year-old had drugs in his system at the time of his death. Vandenbroucke died on October 12 while on holiday in Senegal. An autopsy carried out by Senegalese doctors revealed that the Belgian's passing was the result of a pulmonary embolism. Vandenbroucke's mother, Chantal...
GridCast: live and behind the scenes of grid computing (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE roadshow made a brief stop this week in Europe’s city of cobblestones and high gloss to be part of SciTech Europe 09 . The one day, policy-focused event, held at The Square in Brussels (the venue is literally a square glass box in the heart of Brussels), centered around the questions: “How can we create the conditions to allow science and technology to flourish?...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Former professional rider Agustín Sagasti Murgia has died at the age of 39. Sagasti was found deceased in his home and the cause of death is not yet known. He is the third rider to die in the past month, following the recent passing of Belgian riders Frank Vandenbroucke and Dimitri De Faux. Sagasti’s career as a professional cyclist was cut short due to an horrific crash during the 1995...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Team RadioShack general manager Johan Bruyneel has reflected on a manic season at Astana, the experiened Belgian not mincing his words on a number of topics, including the Kazakh squad and his former star rider, Alberto Contador The man who guided Lance Armstrong, and more recently, Contador, to their Tour de France wins, opened up to Belgian lifestyle magazine Humo at home in Spain, talking about...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
It's been quite a year for Johan Bruyneel. The man who guided Lance Armstrong, and more recently, Alberto Contador, to their Tour de France wins, opened up to Belgian lifestyle magazine Humo at home in Spain, talking about a season that included Armstrong's comeback, the death of Frank Vandenbroucke and strained relations with Contador, Alexandre Vinokourov and the man behind the Astana team. An obvious...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
ISD signs two from Barloworld Tour of Utah mourns loss of executive director Sastre: A Giro for climbers Pinotti dreams of Giro's pink jersey Friend of Vandenbroucke also dies in Senegal Fleeman wins hill climb title, still looking for team
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Eric Rottiers, the organiser of the Tour Méditerranéen and friend of recently deceased Belgian Frank Vandenbroucke, passed away in Senegal this weekend, two weeks after 'VDB' stayed in the same hotel, Het Nieuwsblad reported. Despite the coincidence, the circumstances surrounding Rottiers death were reportedly not suspicious, and he is said to have died of a heart attack. Rottiers, 58,...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Duval tests positive, provisionally suspended UCI waiting for more information on Losa allegations Saxo Bank confirms UCI license approved Colnago backs new U25 team UCI confirms Contador can leave Astana Colnago sign-on with BBox Bouygues Telecom Vandenbroucke laid to rest in Belgium Zomegnan presents an all-inclusive 2010 Giro d'Italia
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Pollack's B-sample results expected this week Ljungqvist signs on as sports director with Team Sky Milram signs Kluge for one year Pinotti ends season on high with time trial win Moreno to race for Omega Pharma-Lotto in 2010 Double Lombardia victory for Silence-Lotto, says Damiani Arroyo extends contract with Caisse d'Epargne Vandenbroucke to be laid to rest on Saturday
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Cyclist Frank Vanbenbroucke will be laid to rest at a private funeral to be held Saturday in Ploegsteert, Belgium, his family told Belga on Tuesday. The 34-year-old died last week in Saly, Senegal. The ceremony will be followed by a burial in the family vault in a nearby cemetery. The rider's parents have requested that the ceremony within the church take place in strict privacy, but a giant screen...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
At the end of his squandered career, Frank Vandenbroucke, who died in a hotel in Senegal, was still aching to make a comeback that nobody was buying.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Frank Vandenbroucke, who died aged 34 after a drinking bout on Monday, was a Belgian cyclist of rich talent (with more than 50 professional wins) but volcanic temperament who became an outcast from the sport after a succession of drug scandals, drink-driving prosecutions, suicide attempts and arguments with the 11 teams that employed him during his 14-year career. The newspaper Le Soir said he had...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Frank Vandenbroucke died in Senegal of natural causes, according to an autopsy conducted by the country's pathologist. Staff at a seaside Hotel Maison Bleue in Saly (70 kilometres south of Dakar) found the Belgian cyclist dead Monday. Vandenbroucke, 34, travelled to Senegal on Sunday for vacation with a cyclist friend, Fabio Polazzi. The Segalese pathologist confirmed the findings of the first doctor,...
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