Tadej Pogačar did what no one — including himself — expected: he won a bunch sprint. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider launched his Criterium du Dauphiné campaign in jaw-dropping style, outsprinting Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) at the end…
This year’s Critérium du Dauphiné, which kicks off on Sunday, can be viewed as an appetizer for the main course, the Tour de France, because the three Tour favorites – Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel – are all riding in it. That should…
Excellent performances by Lorenzo Fortunato and fellow Italian Christian Scaroni in the Giro d’Italia have just about secured XDS Astana’s maintenance as a WorldTour team until at least 2029.
The Giro has wrapped. And I can already imagine that, in 50 years, some better future version of me will write a history piece for Škoda We Love Cycling about how Simon Yates crushed Del Toro and Carapaz on the Queen Stage and completed a…