After a tough 2020 and a protracted calendar, the 2021 cycling season has given fans around the world a warm embrace of normality with an almost full racing calendar.
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…
The 2021 UCI Road World Championships in Flanders started rolling on Sunday with a breathtaking individual time trial that turned into a thrilling mano a mano between the two favourites, Filippo Ganna of Italy and the host country’s Wout van Aert.
They have notched up multiple world championship wins in cyclocross and mountain biking. They have both won Tour De France stages and big classics including the Tour of Flanders and Strade Bianche. It feels like Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert can’t be…
Wow, what a breathtaking, dramatic Tour de France we have just witnessed. Everything about the three-week race was good for the soul: the racing was fast and hard, there were terrific performances by new stars and, best of all, the loud, aggressive crowds were back,…
The 2021 Tour de France, which starts on June 26, is both the easiest race to call and the most difficult. I don’t think you need a super-computer to predict that the winner of the yellow jersey will be one of three riders. And the…
