I doubt if there’s ever been a cycling post-season as uncertain, and even inscrutable, as this one. This uncertainty concerns three teams that have had sufficiently successful seasons to ride on the WorldTour next year: the current Pro teams Lotto and Israel–Premier Tech and the…
Toon Aerts of Belgium and the Netherlands’ Inge van der Heijden overcame deep sand, stiff North Sea breezes, and two strong favourites to win the Elite Men’s and Women’s European Cyclocross Championships over the weekend.
If cycling heaven is winning the Tour de France and hell is climbing the Alpe d’Huez in a torrential downpour, the sport’s limbo must be ending the season without a contract for the coming year.
In 2026, amateur cyclists from around the world will once again have the chance to ride a stage of next year’s Tour de France under the same closed-road conditions as, presumably, Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard, who between them have won the last six Tours.
