Road racing is a team sport but it’s always good to have a winning strategy. In Sunday’s men’s Road Race World Championship, Belgium may have had the best rider in Wout van Aert but the French had the best strategy, enabling the exciting Julian Alaphilippe…
Who would have thought that the first five stages of the Tour de France could provide so much drama? If it had been a movie, no one would have believed that a single sporting event could contain so much feel-good drama, so many horrific crashes…
Unfortunately, the defending champ of the Škoda Green Jersey, Sam Bennett, is not fit enough to race at the 2021 Tour de France. Deceuninck – Quick-Step GM, Patrick Lefevere, therefore had to choose a different sprinter from the team’s ranks. And to the delight of…
Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Nippo) proved to be the strongest of a four-rider breakaway, winning the sprint in front of Benjamin Thomas (Groupama-FDJ) and Joey Rosskopf (Rally). Joel Suter (Switzerland) was dropped on the final climb and finished fourth. Bissegger only turned pro six months ago…
The world champion was hardly seen throughout the race until being guided to the front by his team in the build-up to the final climb. He then chased down Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) on the Mur de Huy and went past him in the last 75…