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)
The other shoe has finally fallen; the endless merger has finally been made official. A day after the UCI included Lotto-Intermarché on a list of 18 World Tour teams granted licenses for the next three years, the newly – and finally – merged team announced…
Tom Pidcock won only six races in 2025, which isn’t really much to write home about when you compare it to the 20 races won by Tadej Pogačar or the 16 registered by the Slovenian’s UAE Team Emirates–XRG teammate Isaac del Toro. But this year…
Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen–Altez Industriebouw) and (who else?) Lucinda Brand (Baloise Glowi Lions) won their respective UCI Cyclocross World Cup races on Sunday on a flat course in Torralba on the Italian island of Sardinia. The 31-year-old Belgian was strongest in crunch time at the…
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.
