During the first Tour, each rider was on his own. Outside help was banned and riders had to mend their bikes themselves. Now Tour race leaders are backed by other riders and dozens of coaches, assistants and mechanics. This is how the teams evolved in a hundred years…
(Infographics: WeLoveCycling.com)
To no one’s surprise, the winners of their respective Tours de France, Tadej Pogačar and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, were awarded the Vélo d’Or as the year’s best cyclists at a ceremony held Friday evening in Paris.
The other shoe has finally fallen. NSN Cycling, the team formerly known as Israel–Premier Tech, has confirmed that it has signed 2024 Tour de France green jersey winner Biniam Girmay until 2028.
Lucinda Brand is on a cyclocross hot streak, with – as already stated in these pages – four race wins in a row, nine wins in 11 races and 51 podium finishes in succession. Those are Pogačarish accomplishments, but the 36-year-old Dutch rider is rarely…
Next year’s Giro d’Italia looks like a change from the recent trend of more and steeper mountains and fewer opportunities for sprinters and all-rounders. Giro organisers are hoping that it will attract some superstars to the race. According to what the incoming Giro director, Paolo…
