There was an exceptional moment in Mathieu van der Poel’s superb ride to victory in this year’s UCI World Championship Road Race: he crashed. He was riding on his own, well ahead of his pursuers, Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogačar and Mads Pedersen, when he lost…
For me, the most impressive sight at the recent Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TdFF) was that of the Belgian SD Worx rider Lotte Kopecky collapsing from exhaustion at the end of the race’s queen stage, after she had climbed to the summit of…
Dutch multi-discipline cyclist Mathieu van der Poel overcame protestors and a late crash to win the 2023 UCI Road Race World Championship on Sunday and become the first rider to hold world championships in both cyclo-cross and road racing. Belgium’s Wout van Aert finished second,…
