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Classics

Cav is back!

April 13, 2021
Classics

The great Paris-Roubaix conundrum: wet and slippy versus dry and dusty

April 11, 2021
Racing

Basking in the cycling limelight once again

April 9, 2021
Comment

Bidons, littering and sock length — but why isn’t the UCI focussing on the issues that really matter?

April 7, 2021
Classics

Is this the return to the Age of Annemiek?

April 5, 2021
Classics

There will be no Paris-Roubaix this spring, but there are other ways to steep yourself in the dust, mud and...

April 3, 2021
Classics

Cav is back!

by William Fotheringham April 13, 2021
by William Fotheringham

Let’s get the bus joke out of the way now: you wait three years for a Mark Cavendish win, and then two come along at once…

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The great Paris-Roubaix conundrum: wet and slippy versus dry and dusty

by William Fotheringham April 11, 2021
by William Fotheringham

The 2021 cobbled Classics season ended not with bangs, clatters and a few curses, but with a whimper of frustration and the gentle pitter-patter of rain falling on northern France…

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Basking in the cycling limelight once again

by Peter Cossins April 9, 2021
by Peter Cossins

I watched the finale of the third stage of the Tour of the Basque Country with half of my attention on the race and the rest of it trying to spot landmarks that I recognised from a family holiday …

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Bidons, littering and sock length — but why isn’t the UCI focussing on the issues that really matter?

by Jeremy Whittle April 7, 2021
by Jeremy Whittle

In the aftermath of the littering incidents that led to disqualifications and debate in the past few days, there has been much discussion…

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Is this the return to the Age of Annemiek?

by Amy Jones April 5, 2021
by Amy Jones

Annemiek van Vleuten is now the second rider in history to have won the Tour of Flanders twice at a ten year interval…

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There will be no Paris-Roubaix this spring, but there are other ways to steep yourself in the dust, mud and blood of the Hell of the North

by William Fotheringham April 3, 2021
by William Fotheringham

Up to April Fool’s Day, Paris-Roubaix could reasonably be called Schrödinger’s Classic, after the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment. ..

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TWELVE YEARS, TWELVE WINNERS: WHAT MAKES THE TOUR OF FLANDERS SO HARD TO WIN?

by Nick Bull April 1, 2021
by Nick Bull

As the conversation at Trek-Segafredo’s dinner table last Sunday night turned away from that afternoon’s Gent-Wevelgem and looked ahead to…

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Michael Matthews riding to different beat ahead of Flanders

by Sophie Smith March 31, 2021
by Sophie Smith

When you think of the Tour of Flanders, Australian contenders don’t really spring to mind…

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In Flanders Fields

by Peter Cossins March 28, 2021
by Peter Cossins

Standing in the pre-stage mixed zone at Paris-Nice one morning earlier this month, I listened in to FloBikes reporter Gregor Brown as he…

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RACE TACTICS: HOW DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP WERE BEATEN AT GENT-WEVELGEM

by Nick Bull March 28, 2021
by Nick Bull

What is it about Deceuninck-Quick-Step and Gent-Wevelgem? The race may lack some of the importance of other one-day WorldTour events…

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Esteban Chaves: The smiling assassin returns

by Sadhbh O'Shea March 26, 2021
by Sadhbh O'Shea

Few people would have been unhappy to see Esteban Chaves take victory at Porte Ainé in the Volta a Catalunya…

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Will Chris Froome ever recapture past glories or is the World Tour’s best-paid rider now yesterday’s man?

by Jeremy Whittle March 24, 2021
by Jeremy Whittle

Chris Froome has been in trouble before at this time of year — that’s with his racing form, just to clarify…

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