The safest bet in the history of gambling, as sure as putting money on the sun rising tomorrow, was that Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) would win Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. It was a sure thing not only because he is a once-in-a-generation talent, perhaps the best…
The 21-year-old Spaniard Juan Ayuso, with stellar support from his UAE Team Emirates, won the crash-marred Itzulia Basque Country, overturning a deficit of 4 seconds to race leader Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) on the final climb of the race.
After an intense competition on the challenging pavé of northern France, the world champion, Lotte Kopecky, emerged victorious at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes, outpacing rivals Elisa Balsamo and Pfeiffer Georgi in a thrilling sprint finish within the iconic Roubaix velodrome.
A minor route change to this Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix undertaken by race organizers ASO at the request of the professional riders’ union, the CPA, to reduce the danger of a crash at the entrance to the notorious Trouée d’Arenberg, or Forest of Arenberg, has unleashed a…
