A few years ago, saying that women’s cycling produced the most entertaining racing in the sport might have sounded like a provocative take. Today, it feels increasingly difficult to argue otherwise.
Probably the biggest news to come out of last week’s orgy of national championships was that Visma–Lease a Bike’s Edoardo Affini crashed heavily on a descent in Friday’s Italian National Time Trial Championship, making his participation at the Tour de France far from certain.
When Ewa Zwolska joined The Unseen Stage, she never saw herself as a cyclist chasing a result. She was the mountain hut manager who squeezed training between exhausting workdays, the adventurer who loved long journeys more than structured workouts, and, perhaps most importantly, the Challenger…
When Markko Karu joined The Unseen Stage, he already knew what L’Étape could demand. The Estonian rider had experienced the event three times before, built years of endurance through mountain biking and long-distance riding, and approached this year’s challenge with quiet determination. But structured training,…
