The final climb of the time trials in the UCI World Championships in Kigali didn’t cause any significant mechanical issues on its long stretch of bone-rattling cobblestones, as I had feared, but the Côte de Kimihurura (1.3 km @ 6.3%), did prove decisive in many…
This year’s transfer season has been explosive so far, with stars and superstars breaking their contracts, and it looks like there’ll be more detonations in the future. The biggest bombshell came right at the beginning, with Remco Evenepoel leaving Soudal Quick-Step for Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe with…
Sunday’s UCI Elite Men’s World Championship Time Trial provided the most incredible image of the year, if not the decade, when with 2.1km left to ride on the 40.6km course in the Rwandan capital Kigali, defending champion Remco Evenepoel passed Tadej Pogačar, who had started…
This week, the rainbow jersey lands on a continent it’s never visited before. From September 21–28, 2025, Kigali becomes the loud, hilly, sun-drenched centre of the cycling world — the first time the UCI Road World Championships are held in Africa. That fact alone changes…
