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.
Take an iconic course known for its technical curves, steep climbs and steeper (and deeper) sand pits, add a lot of snow and ice, and you get some thrilling cyclo-cross races – unless Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin–Premier Tech) is riding in the Elite Men’s…
If you were looking for a single, neat headline to sum up women’s cycling in 2025, you probably didn’t find it. There was no one race that “changed everything”, no total breakout star, no clean before-and-after moment. And honestly? That’s not a failure, it’s just…
Mathieu van der Poel and Lucinda Brand continued their domination and Thibau Nys beat Tibor del Grosso in a thrilling race in which the world champion was absent, a likely scenario of the future of men’s cyclocross.
