After enjoying a dream season to remember forever in 2023, Visma–Lease a Bike suffered a year to forget immediately in 2024. The spring crashes of the team’s superstars, Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert, have been amply documented. But van Aert’s final crash, on stage…
Belgium’s Tim Merlier produced a powerful burst of speed some 100 m from the finish line and then withstood a late challenge by Olav Kooij of the Netherlands to win Sunday’s European Road Race Championship. Madis Mihkels of Estonia edged out another Belgian sprinter, Jasper…
Crashes are part of cycling, and have always been, but especially in the past few years, as the racing got much faster and much more competitive, with riders often going at full speed right from the start of a race or stage.
Primož Roglič’s fourth Vuelta a España championship, tying him with Roberto Heras for most GC wins in the race, was a triumph of intelligence, talent, legs and, above all, deception, a kind of Three-Card Monte on wheels. The plan was clearly devised by the Red…
