William Fotheringham

On September 8 last year, there was a bombshell at the Tour de France. The race director, Christian Prudhomme, tested positive for the Covid-19 virus…

It looked to be bludgeoning business as usual for the Ineos sledgehammer…

Jai Hindley’s rainjacket in 2020, Remco Evenepoel’s ear-piece in 2021. The moment in the penultimate sector of sterrato on the road to Montalcino…

We’ve had a short winter, in bike racing terms. It was October 25 2020 when the last Giro d’Italia closed with victory for Tao Geoghegan-Hart…

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…

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

The daffodils are out, the cuckoos are on their way from Africa, its time for the first Monument of the season

From a bike racing perspective, Covid-19 messed up the seasons good and proper in 2020, which meant that the first sighting…

A new season, and it’s business as usual for Deceuninck-Quickstep…

Anyone who raced in the mid-1990s would have smiled at the announcement from the UCI last week that they were going to ban…

As the WorldTour men prepare to kick off their season in the GP La Marseillaise, the most obvious and biggest question for 2021 is…

With relatively little fanfare, it was announced last week that there will be no junior races for either men or women at the upcoming cyclo-cross…

Confession time. For a good deal of my cycling life, I was never that much into cyclo-cross…

Back in April 2018, I was invited to a bit of a get-together in deepest Flanders to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Quickstep…

Only 48 hours after the Vuelta finished in Madrid, La Course En Tête is proud to present its “pop-up” paperback book taking a look back at…

Earlier this year, the British magazine procycling discussed the idea that time trials might have little future in stage racing, given the constant…

Another Grand Tour, another time trial showdown, another unexpected and youthful winner. It sounds as if there’s a pattern developing in the world…

There are various ways of assessing the toughness of a massive Alpine climb like the Stelvio pass, but the race cape test is as good as any…

Professional cycling has been skating on thin ice since its return in August. The metaphorical floe has grown more fragile week by week through…