Boonen riding pain free
September 10, 2010 (14:41) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen is now riding pain free and has announced he will ride a sportif at the weekend as he prepares to return to racing at the Circuit Franco-Belge at the end of the month. The former world champion has been struggling for most of the season with a ligament problem, which was aggravated by a crash at the Tour de Suisse. He underwent surgery on July 15 and missed the Tour de France. A slow recovery also meant he was forced to miss the Vuelta a España. He will test his knee in the Innergetic ... More...

Boonens knee is now pain-free
September 10, 2010 (13:11) [ Indexed from VeloNation ]
Belgian rider will participate in the Innergetic Pijl leisure event this Sunday More...

Boonen resumes full training
September 05, 2010 (15:08) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen (Quick Step) is optimistic that he will return to competitive action before the end of this season. The former world champion underwent knee surgery in July, forcing him out of the Tour de France, Vuelta a España and world championships but he has since resumed training. Speaking to Het Laatste Nieuws at the Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Boonen was upbeat about his chances of a late-season return ahead that will help him return to top form in time for next year’s ... More...

Boonen on course for late season return
August 18, 2010 (22:16) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen (Quick Step) has returned to training on the road and is aiming to make his comeback to racing at the end of September, according to Quick Step team doctor Yvan Van Mol. The Belgian underwent knee surgery on July 15 after knee ligament trouble prevented him from riding the Tour de France. “He can now train daily and is doing rides in Monaco of two hours without pain or irritation,” Van Mol told Gazet van Antwerpen . “I had him on the phone on Tuesday and he sounded happy.” ... More...

Boonen to miss Vuelta
August 07, 2010 (17:39) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen (Quick Step) will not ride the Vuelta a España and his participation in this year’s World Championships in Geelong, Australia is also in doubt. The Belgian rider underwent knee surgery on July 15 and returned to training just yesterday. Boonen had been troubled by knee ligament trouble for much of the season. Crashes at both the Tour of California and Tour de Suisse ultimately ruled him out of the Tour de France and led to the decision to undergo surgery in July. The triple ... More...

Boonen undergoes surgery
July 15, 2010 (12:38) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen has had to undergo surgery in order to heal his injured left knee, which kept him from racing the Tour de France. The Quick Step leader was operated on Thursday morning in a hospital in Herentals, Belgium, and will now have to rest "three to four weeks" according to his team doctor. Even though Boonen resumed light training last week, the pain in his knee did not disappear, and surgery seemed to be the last option. "Last Friday, I started training again because there was ... More...

Boonen back on the bike
July 12, 2010 (13:08) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen is back on his bike and training again. He will undergo further medical examinations on his injured left knee today. The Quick Step sprinter had to withdraw from the team's Tour de France line-up due to tendonitis of the knee. He first injured the knee in a crash during the Tour of California and exacerbated it with another crash at the Tour de Suisse. The injury also forced him to miss the Belgian national championships, where he had hoped to defend his title. Boonen first tested his ... More...

Boonen disappointed not to be riding the Tour
July 04, 2010 (17:21) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen is still very disappointed not to be part of this year's Tour de France. The Belgian had to skip the event due to tendonitis in his knee, but was at the start of stage one in Rotterdam to greet his teammates before the stage to Brussels in Belgium. "It's a bit strange to be here with the other guys, who are getting ready for the stage," he told Cyclingnews. "I didn't think it was going to be a problem being here, but it actually is. When you're at home, it is not so difficult ... More...

Quick Step to announce Boonen's Tour replacement today
June 29, 2010 (11:37) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Team Quick Step is expected to announce its final Tour de France roster after Tom Boonen was ruled out through injury last week. The team has said that it will choose between Stijn Devolder, Kevin Hulsmans and Wouter Weylandt. However, Tour organisers ASO have told the team that Weylandt is not eligible to ride, since he was not on the 15-man list which the team submitted at the start of April. Both Devolder and Hulsmans were on that list and are therefore eligible. Devolder won the Belgian national ... More...

Boonen out of Tour de France (AP)
June 25, 2010 (20:21) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
The Quick Step team says former world champion Tom Boonen will miss the Tour de France next month due to tendinitis around his left knee cap. The 29-year-old Belgian sprint specialist says he is "very sad" that he'll miss the Tour and the Belgian national championship because of persistent pain from a crash injury during the Tour of California last month. More...

Boonen out of Tour de France
June 25, 2010 (19:21) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen has ruled himself out of this year's Tour de France and Sunday's Belgian National Championship due to patellar tendonitis in his left knee. He took the decision in consultation with Quick Step medical staff after a series of tests in Herentals today. "I'm very sad," Boonen said. "After three days of rest, yesterday I trained for five hours on the route of the National Championship in Leuven. The knee pain was always there. During the last hour of training I had to stop ... More...

Boonen out of Tour de France
June 25, 2010 (18:37) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Eurosport ]
Quick step rider Tom Boonen pulls out of the Tour de France due to a knee problem. His team say that the 29-year-old is suffering from "patellar tendinitis on his left knee (and) will not take part in next Sunday's National Championship and in the next Tour de France". More...

Boonen pulls out of Tour de France with knee injury (Reuters)
June 25, 2010 (18:21) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
Former world champion Tom Boonen has pulled out of the Tour de France because of a knee injury, his Quick Step team said on Friday. More...

Boonen to lead Quick Step in Tour de France
June 23, 2010 (18:08) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen will lead Team Quick Step in the Tour de France this year, the team announced Wednesday afternoon – assuming his troubled left knee holds up on Sunday's Belgian national championship road race. Boonen, 29, has won six stages In the Tour and won the green jersey in 2007. However, he has said that he may be forced to skip the Tour this year due to problems with his knee. He suffered the injury in a crash in the Tour of California in May, and aggravated it in another crash at the Tour ... More...

Boonen could miss Tour if knee pain continues
June 23, 2010 (12:51) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen has admitted for the first time that he may not be able to ride the Tour de France this year due to a knee problem. “I'm not now thinking of forfeiting the Tour de France, but if the pain comes back at the Belgian championship, we should seriously consider it,” he told the Belgian news agency Belga. The Quick Step rider injured his left knee in a crash in the Amgen Tour of California and again in the Tour de Suisse. He abandoned the latter race on the penultimate day. It was ... More...

Boonen must rest knee before national championships
June 22, 2010 (11:51) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen must rest his knee for a few days and will miss the Halle-Ingooigem race on Wednesday. However, the Quick Step sprinter expects to back in time for the Belgian championship on Sunday and the Tour de France which begins the following weekend. Boonen is the current Belgian national champion but abandoned the Tour de Suisse on Saturday due to pain in his left knee. He injured the knee in a crash in the Amgen Tour of California, and then again at the Tour de Suisse. He had the knee examined ... More...

Boonen with continued knee problems
June 21, 2010 (12:09) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen continues to have problems with his left knee, and is undergoing further medical examinations. The Quick Step rider's participation in the Tour de France is nevertheless not endangered at this time. Boonen skipped the closing time trial of the Tour de Suisse on Sunday. “The tendon in the left knee is inflamed,” he told Sportwereld . “On Saturday it was raining hard and was cold. All of that is no benefit to a joint that is still healing weeks after the crash in Sacramento ... More...

Boonen, Cavendish, Ciolek escape serious injury in sprint tumble
June 15, 2010 (22:37) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
The high speed gambles that cycling's sprinters take usually pay off in victory, but today the luck ran out for HTC-Columbia speedster Mark Cavendish and several of his closest competitors. Cavendish was unleashing his powerful final burst to push his way past Milram's Gerald Ciolek. On his left, Heinrich Haussler was attempting the same feat. Both riders came past at the same time, then dove for the center of the road, collided and crashed causing a chain-reaction wreck that took down some ... More...

Boonen unsure for Belgian nationals
June 15, 2010 (11:21) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Tom Boonen is unsure whether he will be able to defend his title in the Belgian national road championship race Sunday, June 27. He is still suffering from a knee problem he picked up in a crash at the Tour of California last month. “I'm not worried,” he told the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. “But it will be tricky for the the Belgian championships. I will try to go the start of the Tour a week later in good form. I still have three weeks before the start.” “My ... More...

Boonen, Chavanel return in Tour de Suisse
June 11, 2010 (22:21) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
The Quick Step team's Sylvain Chavanel and Tom Boonen will return to competition on Saturday's first stage of the Tour de Suisse.  Chavanel has been out of competition since a heavy crash into a team car during the finale of Liège - Bastogne - Liège left him with a fractured skull. He estimated last month that he would be out for another six weeks, making this weekend's race two weeks ahead of schedule. Boonen has also been on the mend since his crash in the Tour of California. ... More...