Trop top Phil. ..je sautais au plafond ....quel souvenir. ...merci champion

:') die vlaamse vlaggen en een waal die wint ... fantastisch

That day, the Belgian team tricked everybody by fixating their attention to Boonen and than launching Gilbert! Beautiful!

Boonen was classed as a sprinter when he was world champion in 2005, yet everyone admired his phenomenal performance

boonen was and is a classics man with a great sprint( which he lost some mostly due to crashes and age) and he won on a hilly course where no1 thought a sprinter could survive. he was the only sprinter in the finishing group which caught a group of 3 that had attacked on a hill on the finishing straight.

@Frekdiznel, actually OPQS did more to ensure Gilbert's win than BMC, I didn't see VanAvermaet doing any work for Gilbert, and BMC screwed up the TTT, so I would say OPQS all the way, and congrats to Phil for a great win and hope he wins some early season classics next year in the jersey

And that's how it's done. I wish I had some Belgian blood in me.

Tried to watch live but I fell asleep hehe. GREAT win for Gilbert

He's back

Great win

Nice leadout Squalo

komaan gilbert

Guess what?! Gilbert won. That's all there is to it. Period.

Well thats kind of what Gilbert did at this WC :P

Super 🚲

got that right

josé is zoo slim

To say "stay in your wheel till the finish and don't get tired" about a sprinter let alone the best of his generation is just ignorant. Why should the world champion be an all rounder? Isn't it fairer to the professionals and more entertaining to cycling fans to change the course every year so different people win. If you watched the whole race you would have seen Cavendish lead the peleton for a fair while. That, plus wins in the Giro D'Italia and Tour De France for me means a great WC.

completely suicidal tactic by Italy who puts Paolini in front to launch Nibali who has no legs and therefore the result is to launch Gilbert towards victory... surely Philippe would have won anyway because that day he had superior strength to everyone, but Italy it had to stay covered and run on the wheels of Belgium and Spain and not take on the burden of top positions without being able to afford it...

just compare the top 10 of each race and notice the difference. it's not about a sprinter not deserving to win the WC, is about the course being 100% flat to favor a sprinter which it was in 2011 and wasn't in 2005. if the sprinter survives the hills and wins the sprint then he deserves it. also boonen was 9th in 2006 in a very hilly course won by bettini and even this year he finished on the second group just behind gilbert. clearly you don't know anything about cycling.

well done Gilbert. i wonder if the chasing trio would have caught him IF Valverde had pulled, but he just wanted to suck wheels. what a wuss.

the commentators are so boring... The Rodrigo Beenkens' speech was so much passionated compared to this one, no doubt about that. A way better way to look at a cycling race.

Ils ne sont pas loin d’être déçu de la victoire de Gilbert. Triste Belgique..

Omg... Lotto...