The 2024 world road race season got underway on Friday with the first stage of the Women’s Santos Tour Down Under, 93 km through the Adelaide Hills from Hahndorf to Campbelltown. Favourites for the GC in this three-stage race, which features short stages and high…
Considering how few stages there were for sprinters in this year’s Vuelta a España and how few top sprinters had therefore entered the race, the contest for the Škoda Green Jersey turned out to be surprisingly exciting – topped off by a final sprint, in…
The inexorable, and probably inevitable, march of Alpecin-Deceuninck’s sprinter Kaden Groves to the Škoda Green Jersey victory in the 2023 Vuelta a España has been hit by some headwinds. The latest blow came on Thursday’s rare flat stage 12, 151 km from Olvega to Zaragoza,…
Continuing his stellar performance in the 2023 Vuelta a España, Kaden Groves of Alpecin-Deceuninck clinched victory in the fifth stage, held in Burriana. Groves’ main rival, Filippo Ganna of Ineos Grenadiers, put up a spirited challenge, accelerating from the fifth position, yet falling short of…
The Dutchman claimed his first win in 2023 after attacking as he crested the Poggio and then powering down the descent to the finishing line. Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) tried to chase him down but…
In many ways, the Elite Men’s side of the 2022 World Road Championships, held in Wollongong, Australia, provided two enormous races. On the first day of the competition, there was an enormous upset in the individual time trial as an unheralded Norwegian, Lukas Foss, beat…
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…
This year, the coastal town of Wollongong, Australia, will host the UCI Road World Championships, with 23 titles awarded through junior, U23 and elite categories across Road and Time Trial disciplines. Winning those iconic rainbow bands defines a rider’s career. There is nothing quite like…
When Sir Dave Brailsford and Team Sky made this claim back in 2009, they were, fair to say, being ambitious. Setting such a lofty goal in a sport full of tradition was asking for trouble. But the then Team Sky boss was, to his credit,…
