It took cycling’s new Wunderkind, Paul Seixas, less than four and a half hours to win the six-day Itzulia Basque Country and register his first WorldTour stage race victory.
There was never a moment over this seven-day race when Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) did not look like the inevitable winner, not even when his good friend and rival Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe) took over the GC lead by 2 seconds after Thursday’s…
Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates–XRG), fresh from a strong podium finish in last weekend’s Strade Bianche, has a slim lead in one of this week’s two Tour de France warm-up races (the other being Paris-Nice), with all the difficult climbs still to come. After…
“So what the heck happened to Remco Evenepoel on the UAE Tour?” That was the headline of the Canadian Cycling Magazine story about the performance of the Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe leader on the ascent of the mighty Jebel Mobrah (13.2 km @ 8.1%, with ramps of…
When Dave Brailsford rejoined INEOS Grenadiers in a prominent, day-to-day role in early July 2025, on the eve of the Tour de France, it signaled that he and the team had had enough of the lack of eye-catching results that had made the INEOS predecessor…
UAE Team Emirates–XRG’s rising young superstar Isaac del Toro added another triumph to his growing Palmares by catching Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) in the final kilometre of Saturday’s Giro dell’Emilia and beating him to the finish line.
A look at the schedules for the rest of the year of the two young UAE Team Emirates–XRG stars, Juan Ayuso and Isaac del Toro, is, on the face of it, inexplicable. Ayuso is scheduled to ride in the Vuelta a España, the Rwanda World…
Simon Yates banished the ghosts of past failure by conquering the daunting Colle delle Finestre – the climb that had cost him victory seven years ago – to win the Giro d’Italia on Saturday’s thrilling – and baffling – stage 20. In a race with…
With three stages left to race, this rollercoaster Giro d’Italia is finely poised as less than a minute separates the top three GC contenders, with a fourth rider less than two minutes behind the surprise leader, Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates). The 21-year-old Mexican…
This Giro d’Italia has been like a thrilling espionage series, such as the great French show The Bureau: Long moments of calm are followed by explosive action, which is followed by new mysteries which lead to surprises that upset the narrative. And at the end?…
