Mathieu van der Poel. Annemiek van Vleuten. Tom Pidcock. Demi Vollering. On Sunday morning, most people would have guessed that at least one of …
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When Gazzetta dello Sport, the venerated Italian sports daily, publishes a wild transfer rumour — and over the years, there have been a few …
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Like countless others before me, my introduction to cycling was through the Tour de France. My dad faithfully watches the race every year…
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Cycling’s pursuit of diversity is bringing out the most dogged and driven characteristics in riders, none more so than in Biniam Girmay’s momentous victory …
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My day started with my mum in tears, initially because she was pleased that I’d remembered to call her on Mother’s Day…
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Back in the day I always had a soft spot for the Three Days of De Panne. Not because I’d had any particularly memorable …
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Trofeo Binda is an outlier on the spring calendar. It’s a rare one-day race that doesn’t have a men’s equivalent…
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The finale of the 2022 Milan-San Remo represented peak Slovenia, both on the way up and on the way down the famed and winding …
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Due to work commitments at Paris-Nice, I missed out on Tadej Pogačar’s latest extraordinary feats at Strade Bianche and Tirreno-Adriatico…
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Historical echoes matter across all sport. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that they are one of the foundations of sport…
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So there we have it, the first edition of the Paris-Roubaix weekend…
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Slipping and sliding but never slowing, Lizzie Deignan all but cruised over the muddy cobbles on her way to history…
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Well, it’s been quite the wait. And I’m not just talking about the fact that it’s been two and a half years since there …
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Watching Chris Boardman pulling ridiculously long turns during his unsuccessful breakaway attempt at Flèche Wallonne 21 years ago…
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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…
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Waiting for Roubaix: Hayman’s heavenly day in Hell
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithOut of all the Monuments, there is a case to be made that Paris-Roubaix is the grandest…
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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 …
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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 …
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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. ..