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…
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…
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?
In the aftermath of the littering incidents that led to disqualifications and debate in the past few days, there has been much discussion…
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
Up to April Fool’s Day, Paris-Roubaix could reasonably be called Schrödinger’s Classic, after the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment. ..
As the conversation at Trek-Segafredo’s dinner table last Sunday night turned away from that afternoon’s Gent-Wevelgem and looked ahead to…
When you think of the Tour of Flanders, Australian contenders don’t really spring to mind…
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…
What is it about Deceuninck-Quick-Step and Gent-Wevelgem? The race may lack some of the importance of other one-day WorldTour events…
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?
Chris Froome has been in trouble before at this time of year — that’s with his racing form, just to clarify…