Some bike-racing fans might consider the 2018 UCI Road World Championship, to be held between September 22 and 30 in Innsbruck-Tirol, Austria, an anticlimax of the road race season, since it follows the three Grand Tours. But that would be a mistake.
The most intriguing feature of the last, and most mountainous, Grand Tour of 2018, the Vuelta a España, is that the winners of the first two tours, Team Sky’s Chris Froome (Giro d’Italia) and Geraint Thomas (Tour de France), are not participating. This leaves the…
Miguel Angel Lopez won the stage after attacking with 1.2km to go on the summit to Calar Alto, but it was Chris Froome who was the happiest man in the peloton. He managed to finish second, ahead of Vincenzo Nibali, while claiming the six-second bonus.…
Is this Chris Froome’s last chance to win a Grand Tour double? Will this be Contador’s victorious swan song? Many riders will want to stake a claim – but only one rider will end the race wearing the Maillot Rojo…
The Grand Départ in Dusseldorf saw Geraint Thomas don the yellow jersey for the first time in his career, 10 years after he first appeared at the Tour in London. Stefan Küng’s time was only 5 seconds slower, so he earned himself the white jersey,…