Jaagpad langs de Schelde

Matthias M.R. Declercq wrote in 2016 a book about a group of cyclists who got to know each other along this towpath. Five boys, five nice boys. More or less by chance, they meet each other over the course of a few years, at the beginning of this century, because they all share one goal: the race. They all aspire to a career as professional cyclists. Along the towpath by the Scheldt, from Ghent to Oudenaarde, they train together. Iljo Keisse, Wouter Weylandt, Dimitri De Fauw, Bert De Backer, and Kurt Hovelijnck. They are young, virile, popular, and indeed make it to professional cyclists. Their finest hour, once they are. But life proves to be harder than the dream. What brought them together, the race, also tears them apart. Merciless and definitive. Five boys, five nice boys.

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