Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen–Altez Industriebouw) and (who else?) Lucinda Brand (Baloise Glowi Lions) won their respective UCI Cyclocross World Cup races on Sunday on a flat course in Torralba on the Italian island of Sardinia. The 31-year-old Belgian was strongest in crunch time at the…
To no one’s surprise, the winners of their respective Tours de France, Tadej Pogačar and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, were awarded the Vélo d’Or as the year’s best cyclists at a ceremony held Friday evening in Paris.
The other shoe has finally fallen. NSN Cycling, the team formerly known as Israel–Premier Tech, has confirmed that it has signed 2024 Tour de France green jersey winner Biniam Girmay until 2028.
Lucinda Brand is on a cyclocross hot streak, with – as already stated in these pages – four race wins in a row, nine wins in 11 races and 51 podium finishes in succession. Those are Pogačarish accomplishments, but the 36-year-old Dutch rider is rarely…