If you open the Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe website and scroll down, you’ll find a story about Tom Pidcock titled “5 legendary moments from Tom Pidcock” and a video, Tom Pidcock on racing road, cyclocross and MTB. If you keep scrolling down, you’ll also find an article…
Two recent men’s cyclocross races were a perfect illustration of what I am calling the “Pogačar Effect.” The Pogačar Effect is what happens to a race in which the best rider in the world participates: it reduces the primary interest for spectators to riders fighting…
A look at the schedules for the rest of the year of the two young UAE Team Emirates–XRG stars, Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro, is, on the face of it, inexplicable. Ayuso is scheduled to ride in the Vuelta a España, the Rwanda World…
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) fought yet another tooth-and-nails duel for three weeks, though some of the suspense fell out of it after the Dane lost 1:05 to his Slovenian nemesis in the stage 5 time trial. Vingegaard’s deficit…