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It's that time of the year, the part of the season where riders start making moves ahead of next year. Here's a round-up of who’s moving WorldTour teams? Team Ineos Transfers Team Ineos will be adding Giro winner Richard Carapaz from Movistar to add to its existing three Grand Tour winner lineup. It's only fitting... Continue Reading →
The 2019 Tour de France is finished and its youngest winner in over a hundred years is home in Colombia. Now we look forward to the season's third Grand Tour. The 2019 Vuelta a Espana starts with a team time trial on Saturday the 24th August and concludes three weeks later with a carnival stage... Continue Reading →
It’s the 54th edition of the men’s Amstel Gold Race. A race named after beer. And it falls on Easter. Who will rise to the challenge? The cobbled classics are sadly done for the year, now we move to the Ardennes Classics, starting with the Amstel Gold Race this Sunday. Here's what you need to... Continue Reading →
Italian Alberto Bettiol, 25, stuns Flanders favorites and scores EF's biggest victory in years. A big day for Italian cycling The Tour of Flanders offered up a big day for Italian cycling fans. First, Maria Basianelli put the end cap on a fantastic spring by winning the women's race, then Alberto Bettiol stunned everyone with... Continue Reading →
Who's ready for the ‘hardest one-day race’ on the WorldTour calendar, the Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen)? “It is, without question, the hardest one-day bike race ever created,” George Hincapie, who finished a record 17 times, wrote in his biography. Here's how the race got its start: The History of the Ronde van Vlaanderen... Continue Reading →
The first of the five 2019 Monuments took place in Italy on Saturday at Milan – San Remo. The “sprinters’ classic” saw Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain – Merida) escape on the Poggio and ride solo to the finish last year, avoiding a sprint. The big question for 2019, would the race end in a sprint once again?... Continue Reading →
The 110th edition of Milan-San Remo is this Saturday, the first of five Monuments for the 2019 season. Here's a look at the course and the riders to watch. The Course Milan-San Remo is the longest single-day race on the professional cycling calendar. The race covers a rather horrifying 291km which will see riders in... Continue Reading →
Despite the real racing season still being about 3 weeks away I’ll be very happy to watch guys racing bikes on terrain that doesn’t look like the Tour of Las Vegas this weekend! No more desert(ed) highways, no, now come the spring classics starting with the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad For years this race was a rival... Continue Reading →
Woah. What a crazy day at the Tour de France. A protest by local farmers resulted in a 15-minute neutralization on Stage 16 after a police officer used pepper spray on protestors. Said pepper spray then blew into the peloton. Oops. https://twitter.com/quickstepteam/status/1021707168184258560 Luckily no breakaway had been formed at that point in the race, and race... Continue Reading →
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, often called La Doyenne ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium. First run in 1892, it is the oldest major one-day race and it's this Sunday, April 23rd. It's also the final of the five Monuments of the European professional road cycling calendar and it's a damn hard race. In... Continue Reading →
The Flèche Wallone is tomorrow, which means you have an excuse to find a stream in the morning and pretend to work while you watch some fantastic bike racing. Or, if like me your day is filled with meetings, you can record it and watch it while you train tomorrow night. If you're a Belgian, however,... Continue Reading →
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