C-Cycling,
21 Août 2011
Exclusive Interview - Wout Poels
One of my young personal favorites Wout Poels unfortunately had to abandon the Tour de France cause of illness, but now he is back on the bike and ready to shine in the Vuelta when the peloton hits the big mountains!

pezcyclingnews.com,
20 Juillet 2011
"Maybe I'm getting to be a boring guy?"
Half-an-hour down the road from the Saxo press conference is the Vacansoleil 'do'. Vacansoleil is a team which punches above it's weight and whose riders could never be accused of over analysing; 'let's go!' is the Hoogerland and De Gendt philosophy.

C-Cycling,
30 Juin 2011
Interview - Wout Poels
Wout Poels has impressed me massively this season so far. Saturday the young Vacansoleil climber starts his first Tour de France and I think it will be a good idea for all of you to keep a close eye on him when the peloton hits the mountains!

velonation.com,
13 Mars 2011
Who is the big Paris-Nice discovery?
In the 2009 Tour of Britain one of the stars of the show was a young Belgian from the Topsport Vlaanderen team, Thomas De Gendt. He enlivened the race and won the sprints and mountains jerseys. Much was expected of the man from St. Niklaas in 2010; but the big results refused to come.