Today marks exactly 100 days before the 109th edition of the world-famous Tour de France starts. The 2022 Tour launch in Denmark was more than 25 years in the making as many convoluted historical events and logistic problems kept popping up, preventing it from happening.…
Though the Tour de France is six months away, it is still possible to speak with near certainty about who the favorites and their main rivals will be (barring an unexpected event, such as illness or injury).
Whenever you ask someone about thrilling moments in sport, they always miss including cycling in their list for some unknown reason. Even avid cyclists will probably quote some football game rather than Mathieu van der Poel’s mind-altering win at the 2019 Amstel Gold or Tadej…
How good a cyclist is Wout van Aert? Ask one of his rivals. “We have to be honest,” said cyclocross rider Toon Aerts, after van Aert won the first cyclo-cross competition he raced in nearly a year by nearly 2 minutes. “If you see how…
The route of next year’s Tour de France has been announced, and everyone seems to agree that it has all the makings of a classic. The Grand Départ will take place in Denmark, where it had been scheduled to be held last year before Covid…
There’s a rumour going around the pro-cycling circuit that two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar is Superman. Not always, of course. Only when he wants to be, as in the Tour de France. The ease with which Pogačar won the last two editions of…
The 109th edition of the most famous cycling race in the world has now a confirmed route! Copenhagen will host the Grand Départ, then we’ll be off to Northern France and its cobbles, and we’ll go for a brief visit to Belgium and Switzerland as…
The headline sounds promising, but the negotiations are far from finished. The British sprinter, who won the Škoda Green Jersey at this year’‘s Tour de France and Patrick Lefevere, the team‘s GM, has not are yet to agreed on financial terms with Patrick Lefevere, the…
In 2016, an inflatable arch caused a crash at the Tour de France when it unexpectedly deflated and collapsed on Adam Yates, throwing him off his bike. Officials blamed a spectator’s belt buckle for the accident but the real culprit was physics. Let’s take a…
