Last Saturday and Sunday was Opening Weekend of the road racing season, though there had been plenty of racing before. It was, in fact, the opening weekend of the spring Classics season with the Omloop Nieuwsblad, won easily by Mathieu van der Poel, and Sunday’s…
After Jumbo-Visma won all three Grand Tours in 2023, still the only team to have accomplished that feat, the two years after that were letdowns for its successor, Visma–Lease a Bike, primarily due to the injuries suffered by its two superstars, Jonas Vingegaard and Wout…
The UCI is always tinkering with its regulations to make cycling safer, drug-free, more appealing to a global audience and to ensure that the playing field is as level as it can be, given the glaring discrepancy in funds the teams have at their disposal.
When Dave Brailsford rejoined INEOS Grenadiers in a prominent, day-to-day role in early July 2025, on the eve of the Tour de France, it signaled that he and the team had had enough of the lack of eye-catching results that had made the INEOS predecessor…