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29/09/2010 - Vantorre Remy de Virelles est le grand vainqueur.

16/05/2010 - Following an absolute top season 2009 it goes without saying that all eyes are looking towards the performances of Pieter Veenstra. After a very successful pre-season it is an immediate hit in the very first 1-day long distance race Signy Signetz (518km).

03/05/2010 - In the winter months we already introduced you the new partnership “Vangeel – Lemmens” from Kuringen (province Limburg, Belgium).

02/05/2010 - Ex -Heulenion (near Kortrijk) Remy Vantorre has now lived in the Waals Virelles near Chimay for 7 years. First the pigeon lofts arrived, later a lovely new villa. Totgether with his wife Roza he enjoys the peace, the nature and the pigeons.

18/04/2010 - The chilly Spring hangs in the air, and the new 2010 sport season started during the Easter week… everyone began again with a ‘clean slate’. We all have one thing in common at the moment… each one of us (sometimes with fear) wait for what the coming weeks will bring in the pigeon sport.

28/03/2010 - C’est à 2008 que remonte notre premier contact avec le tandem Nihoul père et fils de Senzeilles (Cerfontaine), à proximité de la carrière de marbre de Beauchâteau, un patrimoine unique à préserver tant au niveau de sa faune, de sa flore et de sa géologie, qu'en raison de son passé industriel.

19/03/2010 - The greatest fanciers of the Netherlands in 2009 are without doubt Pieter & Gea Veenstra from Drachtstercompagnie. With the winning of no less than 4x a 1st National Title in the tough competition Wie Heeft Ze Beter (W.H.Z.B.), they have performed something which is unequalled!!

07/04/2010 - For many years I was allowed to visit the national champion KBDB Grand Distance in my own province Antwerp. In 2008 it was the turn of André Colbrandt from Bottelare (East-Flanders) but this year I had to travel to the West-Flemish Zwevegem.

07/03/2010 - Anyone who followed the race reports from 2009 closely, or thoroughly analysed the national long distance results, will have come across the name De Jaeger-Devylder! It couldn’t be otherwise… because Freddy and Daniel had an excellent 2009 sport season!

05/03/2010 - Après des visites à Sombreffe et Mettet, respectivement chez les tandems Thibaut-Boons et Molle-Fallay, je continue mon périple namurois en me rendant chez Jean-Jacques Baleau, auteur d’une saison tout bonnement exceptionnelle surtout avec la jeune génération.

01/03/2010 - Championnat RFCB Hainaut 2009 - Journée provinciale le 14 mars à Maurage.

09/02/2010 - When, in that blessed year 2003, the combination Salens-De Boelpaep was held over the christening font neither Fred or Georges, with at the back of their mind “together we are strong”, could imagine in their wildest dreams where it would lead to.

22/02/2010 - In the winter before the ’09 season friends Jo Vangeel and Ulrich Lemmens (Lemmens-Hild, Balen) decided to start a partnership in Kuringen. Jo is racing and breeding the pigeons,

22/02/2010 - La période hivernale constitue une opportunité pour jeter un oeil sur la précédente saison, ou de se projeter dans la prochaine qui est maintenant à nos portes.

14/02/2010 - As you probably know, I try to alternate resounding, well-known names with the noble unknown. This is how I came into contact with Ronny Borloo from Roosdaal. A fancier that came to the great public via the big gates.

11/02/2010 - I have spent 20 years creating an inbred family of all purpose Janssen racing pigeons. I have travelled to Europe many times and have always returned home totally delighted with the quality of my own family of racing pigeons.

10/02/2010 - Indeed, you read it right, a sprint champion! I don’t make a habit of it, but this time I will make an exception for the championship KBDB. I don’t have to travel far for this report. My neighbouring Retie was only a few kilometres away.

05/02/2010 - It was November 2005 when a ‘schock wave’ passed through the Netherlands by the auction of the colony Marijke Vink… seen at that moment as one of the leading colonies in the Extreme Middle Distance in the Netherlands.

03/02/2010 - Championnats Provinciaux Namur : Général, Vitesse, demi-fond et fond et as pigeons

03/02/2010 - Championnats interprovinciaux Wallons : Général, Vitesse, demi-fond et fond. Champion Général, Roger Pierre de Pecrot.

28/01/2010 - Luc began in the 80’s. At the time Luc raced with his father Leon Van Coppenolle. In 1986 this dup reached their absolute peak; they were general champion of Belgium.