When at last the women’s race season started at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, discussion centered around how SD Worx (formerly, Boels Dolmans) had deployed their…
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From a bike racing perspective, Covid-19 messed up the seasons good and proper in 2020, which meant that the first sighting…
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A new season, and it’s business as usual for Deceuninck-Quickstep…
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This week’s announcement confirming that Eurosport x GCN had secured live coverage of both the men’s and women’s editions of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad…
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After a slew of cancellations saw the usual opening races on the women’s calendar lost to the pandemic, and with the fate of myriad …
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Britain is speeding ahead in terms of Covid-19 vaccination levels, but the road racing scene remains dormant…
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Arguably the most unedifying moment of “The Last Dance”, the acclaimed 2020 ESPN and Netflix documentary revolving around Michael Jordan, is when…
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Anyone who raced in the mid-1990s would have smiled at the announcement from the UCI last week that they were going to ban…
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Last month, some of the biggest names in running spoke out in opposition to a move by UK Athletics…
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The discussion of mental health in the peloton is, encouragingly, becoming more nuanced after Thibaut Pinot became the latest team leader…
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A little over four and a half years ago, I was stood on a Paris side street grilling UCI president Brian Cookson on his …
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As the WorldTour men prepare to kick off their season in the GP La Marseillaise, the most obvious and biggest question for 2021 is…
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Little did we know last March when organisers began postponing events due to the emerging coronavirus pandemic that those same events…
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With relatively little fanfare, it was announced last week that there will be no junior races for either men or women at the upcoming …
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Pound’s righteous fury: how cycling’s ethical crisis accelerated progress in anti-doping worldwide
Dick Pound, the founding President of WADA, nemesis of Lance Armstrong and one of the most pivotal figures in world anti-doping…
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Heading for the top: which women’s World Tour stage races will step up to the plate in 2021?
by Amy Jonesby Amy JonesThe Premier Women’s Stage Race of 2021: with the Giro Rosa relegated from WorldTour level and a ‘Women’s Tour de France’ still one year …
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The Black Lives Matter protests that followed the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 forced society to confront racism in dramatic …
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I made a new best friend during the lockdown. Restricted to taking exercise within a kilometre of home and for no more than an …
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Another Grand Tour, another time trial showdown, another unexpected and youthful winner. It sounds as if there’s a pattern developing in the world…
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A little over a week ago, the Education First team sent a letter to cycling’s governing body, the UCI, and to RCS, promoters of …