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Tour Drama as Pogačar Takes Yellow and France Wins First Two Stages

July 1, 2024 at 7:48 am4 min reading

Road cycling

The 2024 Tour de France opened with more drama than Star Wars as Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) took the yellow jersey on stage 2 (as he did in the Giro d’Italia) and Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich PostNL) won his first-ever yellow jersey on a remarkable…

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Pogačar Takes Giro Lead – But It Wasn’t Easy

May 6, 2024 at 9:27 am4 min reading

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A funny thing happened to Tadej Pogačar on his first step on the road to a crushing victory in the Giro d’Italia: he lost. The overwhelming favourite to win the first Grand Tour of the year was upset in stage 1 by a cyclist most,…

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Pogačar Looks to Have Giro d’Italia at his Mercy

May 3, 2024 at 5:55 am4 min reading

Road cycling

With the dominance of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in this year’s spring Classics and the clear superiority of the UAE Team Emirates leader Tadej Pogačar in the upcoming Giro d’Italia, grumblings are being heard in the sport about the lack of suspense in road…

Evenepoel’s Meltdown Explodes Vuelta as Jumbo-Visma Dominate

September 11, 2023 at 12:49 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

The second week of this year’s Vuelta a España had as much drama as a Mexican soap opera. Most of that drama was packed into two stages, the 13th and the 14th, which went over high mountains and featured the usual suspects: the three Jumbo-Visma…

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,…

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Pogačar Wins La Flèche Wallone with Powerful Final Sprint

April 20, 2023 at 11:38 am4 min reading

Road cycling

It would have been a huge upset if anyone but Tadej Pogačar had won Wednesday’s La Flèche Wallone, after his dominant performance in Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race. The 192.4-kilometre route ends with two short, steep climbs, of the type he used to launch his victorious…

The Surprises Packages of the Tour de France 2022

June 28, 2022 at 9:37 am5 min reading

Road cycling

As we tick ever closer to the Grand Depart in Copenhagen, article upon article will be finalised on the riders set to take Le Tour by storm. But, like any event, some riders will stand up and break out to make a name for themselves…

Who Looks Good in the Giro d’Italia

May 4, 2022 at 11:49 am5 min reading

Road cycling

The Giro d’Italia is starting on May 6 from the Hungarian capital Budapest two years late because of the Covid pandemic. But what explains the race having only 26.3 km of time trialling, the lowest amount since the early 1960s, but a whopping 51 km…

Mikel Landa Wins Vuelta a Burgos and Other Cool News from the World of Cycling

August 9, 2021 at 10:06 am4 min reading

Road cycling

Another Monday is here, and so is our news from the world of cycling. So, what did you miss?

The Sticky Bottle: A Controversial Race Trick for Gaining Extra Speed

April 15, 2021 at 1:26 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

As with every other professional sport, cyclists also need assistance sometimes. The question arises, though, how much outside help is considered acceptable and when normal aid becomes cheating. The ‘sticky bottle’ trick seems to lay perfectly somewhere in between.