After her seventh consecutive win at La Fleche Wallonne on Wednesday, it’s safe to say that Anna van der Breggen is the undisputed ‘Queen of the Mur’…
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Alaphilippe and Van der Breggen repeat in the Ardennes, as Moscon struggles to outride his past in the Alps
Another Fleche Wallonne, another win for Anna Van der Breggen and for Julian Alaphilippe…
Watching Chris Boardman pulling ridiculously long turns during his unsuccessful breakaway attempt at Flèche Wallonne 21 years ago…
Cherie Pridham had to establish a website and task a friend to manage the interview requests that came through it such was the interest in her historic appointment…
It’s 40 years since a French rider won the Amstel Gold Race and 41 since that country last tasted success in Liège-Bastogne-Liège…
Out of all the Monuments, there is a case to be made that Paris-Roubaix is the grandest…
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. ..