De Ronde van Fransman?
Chavanel: On form for DeRonde? (AFP photo) Sylvain Chavanel has been looking stronger and stronger over the past few weeks. Today, he just took De Panne with a killer TT. With the once again seemingly dominant Quick Step classics armada around him, a tricoleur jersey on his back and the frustration of last year's nearly weighing on his mind... I'm thinking maybe this Sunday might finally be his day. The scenario? With all eyes on a Tommeke bound in a straight jacket likely strapped tighter than the belts of JetBlue passenger-posse holding down a flipped-out pilot, Patrick Lefevere will play his French ace. Not that many French riders have won the Ronde van Vlaanderen . Three to be exact. Most recently Jacky Durand survived a day-long break to take the Ronde solo in 1992. Before that, there was Jean Forestier in 1956, now the oldest living winner of the Ronde. But the year before, 1955 saw Louison Bobet win a battle of giants to become the first French winn