Is there anyone who can stop Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) from winning Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race, the first of three Ardennes Classics to be raced over eight days? Probably not. Not Tom Pidcock (Q36.5), who won the race last year while still with INEOS…
We’ve all been so focused on the thrilling “Battle of the Superstars” between Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogačar in the past few weeks that we forgot that there was a third superstar recuperating from a bad crash who might have played a big…
Anybody wondering about how hard it is to ride the extravagantly cobbled Paris-Roubaix should have seen the face of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) as he headed for victory on Sunday. Rather than triumph, his twisted grimace expressed anguish, fatigue and all the pain in…
There are a few ways to win a monument like Paris-Roubaix. You can bide your time, wait for the sprint, or roll the dice in a late attack. Or, if you’re Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, you attack solo from 25 kilometers out, ride yourself into the history…
