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In our next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wlcmagazine\/\">livestream on Wednesday 24th June, 5 PM (CET)<\/a>, hosted by Laura Meseguer, we will welcome one of the most versatile road racers of today, Belgian Philippe Gilbert of Team Lotto Soudal.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can learn a lot from a rider&#8217;s nickname and Philippe &#8216;Boar of the Ardennes&#8217; Gilbert is no exception given his fondness of attacking and perseverance in poor weather conditions. Before transferring to Team Lotto Soudal in 2019, Gilbert rode for the Quick-Step Floors outfit from 2017, after five years with BMC during which he won the UCI Road World Championship in 2012. Gilbert\u2019s second most notable achievement is being the second person (and first Belgian) in history to win all three Ardennes classics \u2013 the Amstel Gold Race, La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge \u2013 in a single year in 2011. Furthermore, he won both the Tour of Flanders and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge in a single 2017 season, which takes a very special talent as the two races couldn\u2019t be more different route-wise, demanding both sprinter and climber abilities. The last Belgian before Gilbert to win both races was Eddy Merckx. Alongside his classics skills, he has won stages at each of the grand tours, scoring 11 wins across the Giro d\u2019Italia, Tour de France and La Vuelta.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA-Sw9AJ0r3\/<\/p>\n<p>Tune in on <strong>Wednesday 24th June, 5 PM (CET)<\/strong> with Laura Meseguer to find out how a specific landscape around one small Belgian town fashioned an adaptable cyclist, how does it feel to have one\u2019s grand plans interrupted by a pandemic, how do you train for versatility and stamina and more.<\/p>\n<p>For the preceding #Ride2Unite livestream with not one but three special guests involved in the first-ever UK\u2019s women\u2019s virtual stage race \u0160koda V-Series Women\u2019s Tour, Juliet Elliott, Adam Blythe and Dame Sarah Storey, head over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBbP19BANJk\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBbTkFQApmn\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the cycling community forms maybe even stronger bonds than ever before and we would love to aid the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":178397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4142],"tags":[4140,4170,956,4229],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-178396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ride2unite","tag-ride2unite","tag-laura-meseguer","tag-philippe-gilbert","tag-team-lotto-soudal","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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