Ill keep my thoughts to myself: Tom Boonen fuels Cancellara motor doping rumours (again) and claims angry, grim Lance Armstrong ignored him for years but former US Postal boss tells Belgian to shut up [Video]

Next April, it will be 15 years since Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen’s era-defining duel at the 2010 Tour of Flanders. And the sight of Cancellara, clad in his Swiss champion’s jersey, powering away from the Belgian champ on the Muur van Geraardsbergen – and the subsequent innuendo-fuelled controversy that’s hovered over that particular race-destroying acceleration ever since – is one that Boonen has clearly found rather more difficult to shake off over the years.

Because this week, in a podcast interview in Belgium, classics legend Boonen – not for the first time – addressed the motor doping rumours which have clouded Cancellara’s 2010 Ronde win for a decade and a half, pointing out several “weird” incidents which allegedly occurred during and after the Swiss star’s victory, and admitting that “I have my thoughts about it, but I’ll keep them to myself”.

Elsewhere in the podcast, Boonen criticised his former teammate Lance Armstrong, claiming that the banned Texan …