As the saying goes, Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. On the other hand, as Tony Soprano liked to say: “Whaddaya gonna do?”
Just when you thought Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceunick) had forgotten how to lose – he remembered. At the same time, INEOS Grenadiers and Tom Pidcock finally remembered how to win a big race. The UK team had won only two stages this year and…
It has been a mediocre start to the 2024 season for the once mighty INEOS Grenadiers, who under the name Team Sky were the unchallenged lords of road racing from 2012 to 2019. In that eight-year span, they won the Tour de France seven times…
Tadej Pogačar’s astonishing 81km solo attack to secure victory at the Strade Bianche was a feat that left many speechless, including the Slovenian rider himself. Launching an offensive from such a distance, Pogačar shattered conventional cycling strategies, reminiscent of legendary exploits by cycling greats like…
To no one’s surprise, Mathieu van der Poel won his sixth cyclo-cross world title in Sunday’s UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships by surging to the front with his first pedal stroke and gradually pulling away from his rivals. His Dutch compatriot Joris Nieuwenhuis capped off an…
In a remarkable show of resilience, Wout van Aert of Visma-Lease a Bike clinched a standalone victory at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup held in Benidorm, Spain. Van Aert’s defining moment came in the final lap where, despite a crash following the barriers and losing…
Which rider ended 2023 as UCI’s top-ranked performer and began 2024 as the sport’s highest-paid rider? According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, it was UAE Team Emirates leader Tadej Pogačar who reportedly earns €6 million per year. That puts him well ahead of his Slovenian…
If everything goes as planned, this year in road racing should be a watershed in the sport, with an unprecedented number of superstars racing against each other in some of cycling’s iconic races. Most of these riders’ schedules have now been made public so that…
To paraphrase the Who: “Welcome to the new year, same as the old year,” because Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceunick) opened 2024 the way he closed 2023 by blowing away the competition in a cyclo-cross race. Even a rain-swamped and muddy track on the first…
If anything the last few cyclocross races have proven is that, yes, the so-called Big Three – Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and Tom Pidcock – really are superior to the other riders in the sport, but also that, currently at least, there…
