Philippe Gilbert is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team BMC Racing Team. Gilbert is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics ? the Amstel Gold Race, La Fl�che Wallonne and Li�ge?Bastogne?Li�ge ? in a single season, which he accomplished in 2011. Gilbert also finished the 2011 season as the overall winner of the UCI World Tour. Gilbert was accused of abusing Cortisone by an anonymous former Lotto teammate during this dominant period with Omega Pharma-Lotto, an allegation which the Belgian vehemently denies. A Classics specialist, Gilbert has won several classic cycle races, including Paris?Tours twice, the Giro di Lombardia twice, the Amstel Gold Race three times, La Fl�che Wallonne, Li�ge?Bastogne?Li�ge and the Cl�sica de San Sebasti�n. He has also won stages at each of the three cycling Grand Tours; he won a stage at the Giro d'Italia in 2009, a stage at the Tour de France in 2011, and five stages at the Vuelta a Espa�a, winning two in both 2010 and 2012, and one in 2013. [More at Wikipedia]

July 5th, 1982 in Verviers (Age 41)