Dylan van Baarle Archives

What We Should Expect Of This Year’s La Vuelta

August 25, 2023 at 12:49 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

The 78th Edition of the Vuelta Espana, the third and final Grand Tour of the year after the Giro D’Italia and the Le Tour de France, gets underway on Saturday 26th of August in Barcelona and will conclude three weeks later in Madrid after 3,153.8km,…

Jumbo-Visma Want to Win All Three Grand Tours in 2023

August 21, 2023 at 10:39 am2 min reading

Road cycling

Jumbo-Visma have unveiled their formidable line-up for the 2023 Vuelta a España, a roster that boasts the firepower of Jonas Vingegaard and Primož Roglič as co-leaders. Both riders have showcased an impeccable performance this season, with Vingegaard claiming the Tour de France title and Roglič…

Dylan van Baarle on Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Win: ‘The team told me to use my instinct and that’s what I did’

February 27, 2023 at 12:34 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

A debut race in a Jumbo-Visma jersey meant a debut win for Dylan van Baarle.

Van Aert Targets Monuments and the World Championships in 2023

January 16, 2023 at 3:11 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

Wout van Aert is arguably the best cyclist in the world, which is an astonishing thing to say about someone who has never won a Grand Tour and probably never will. But that’s not because the 28-year-old Belgian Jumbo-Visma rider couldn’t win a Giro or…

My Personal Highlights of the 2022 Season by Matt Stephens

October 21, 2022 at 7:00 am

Road cycling

I think it’s fair to say that from whatever perspective you look back upon the 2022 cycling season, the general consensus, distilled into one word, would be along the lines of ‘superb’, ‘outstanding’, ‘historic’ or ‘explosive.’ Whatever one word you would choose to sum up…

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What Can We Expect From the UCI Road World Championships?

September 16, 2022 at 12:38 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

The 2022 UCI Road World Championships will kick off on September 18 at Wollongong, Australia, with a star-studded list of past and future champions. The question that has been plaguing me since I learned that two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar will be racing…

The Amazing Season of Team Jumbo-Visma

August 22, 2022 at 2:50 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

Cycling aficionados tend, much less than, say, football fans, to follow the exploits of individual cyclists, rather than teams. The reason is obvious: Football teams have community followings that don’t end when a fan moves to another city or country. A fan of the Chelsea…

Who Will Win the Yellow Jersey at This Year’s Tour?

July 1, 2022 at 7:06 am5 min reading

Road cycling

Picking the winner of this year’s Tour de France yellow jersey is easy. The reason it’s so easy is that Tadej Pogačar, who has won the Tour GC competition the last two years, is head and shoulders the best rider in the race and, all…

A Few Takeaways From Paris-Roubaix 2022

April 18, 2022 at 9:41 am5 min reading

Road cycling

This year’s version of the so-called Hell of the North, the Paris-Roubaix, proved yet again how exciting (because dangerous and unpredictable) a one-day bike race can be, especially if there are lots of cobblestones to traverse.