China has around 1.4 billion citizens, 700 times more than for example Slovenia. Yet, there has been 8 Slovenians and only one Chinese rider in WorldTour in 2025. Statistically, there should be a few Chinese cyclists strong enough to ride a GrandTour but... The last time a Chinese rider rode one was...

A few weeks ago it was published in many media his retirement and he himself had to come forward on social networks to deny the news, making it clear that it was possible that he would hang up the bike, but that he was looking for a team. And he has found it. Thus, the legendary Francisco Mancebo wi...

Mathieu van der Poel has already become world champion in cyclocross, gravel and on the road. However the elusive mountain bike rainbow stripes have slipped through the Dutch phenomenon's fingers multiple times, and the same goes for a big Olympic medal. In Tokyo 2021, Van der Poel crashed in traini...

Greg van Avermaet made it clear to everyone that his sporting level remains incredibly high even two years since he stopped his road career. Last weekend, the former Olympic road champion won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in the age category 40-44. Another incredible trophy to display in his...

Miguel Induráin is one of the best cyclists of all time. If we talk only about time trials, he is in the discussion of the greatest of all time. But the Spanish rider was much more than that, he also had the ability to hold off the great climbers in the high mountains. That led him to have a legenda...

Soudal - Quick-Step is a team that has over time hosted many of the world's best sprinters. Paul Magnier fits like a glove into what the team wants and needs, but in the team hierarchy he falls behind Tim Merlier and is aware of it. Hence, he is not entering 2026 with the hopes of making his Tour de...

For the typical non-runner, Mathieu van der Poel's speed on two legs is quite high. The cyclocross World Champion is not only a tremendous athlete on the bike, but also an active runner - and swimmer, as recently revealed by his training group. Van der Poel has posted his first Strava activity in al...

It is no secret that both Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel will both return to cyclocross this winter, although their dates may differ significantly. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider is more likely to be back to the discipline sooner, as he takes on some off-road training in Belgium.  In a...

Pinarello is a bike brand that like only a few others, are closely associated and always remembered by their partnership with one team: INEOS Grenadiers (the formerly known Team Sky). However that is now not only the case as the Italian bike brand will extend its sponsorship to Q36.5 Pro Cycling Tea...

Israel - Premier Tech, as it is currently known, is coming to an end. Israel has removed itself from backing the team any further after the intense protests at the end of the 2025 season, with its climax at the Vuelta a España where the race was significantly disrupted; and its other title sponsor P...

The Modern Adventure Pro Cycling team is going to be on the road in 2026, it has been made official and the team has signed 20 riders for its debut season. The United States of America gain a new ProTeam, the second division of the sport, and feature a lineup including some very experienced figures,...

Mathieu van der Poel is one of the most versatile and successful men in pro cycling, but even away from it, he is a sports man. An active golf player, and potential triathlete try-out too soon. On Instagram he has once again teased a possible participation in an Ironman triathlon, motivated by his c...

Despite not being a mountainous country, Great Britain's top pro riders who are still active are in their grand majority Grand Tour specialists: Chris Froome, Oscar Onley, the Yates twins, Tao Geoghegan Hart, even Tom Pidcock now... Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas who are hanging up their wheels soo...

Jonathan Milan is one of the best sprinters in the world and from 2026 he will be teammate's with Juan Ayuso at Lidl-Trek. The Italian has discussed several topics ahead of the 2026 season, including the Spaniard who is the grand novelty in the lineup after a few rocky years with UAE Team Emirates -...

No, it is not a joke. Q36.5 have unveiled a new rain jacket called 'the condom', which has been used by Tom Pidcock and Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team this year with great results. The name given by the Swiss clothing company is certainly eye-catching, and it came as a result of collaboration with the team...

Mathias Vacek is a rider that over the past year and a half has evolved tremendously and currently, he is one of the best classics riders and time trialists in the world, besides being Mads Pedersen's right-hand man throughout some of the season. The Czech start wants to be in the Tour de France thi...

This Saturday, some of the world's best indoor racers in cycling will gather in Abu Dhabi for the E-Sports World Championships. Whilst this involves a different skillset than other disciplines in the sport, it by no means refutes the incredible power that the riders have. In particular, the United S...

At the end of October, EF Education-EasysPost rider James Shaw looked towards social media to help in his efforts to find a contract into 2026. So far he hasn't yet succeeded, but has gathered quite a lot of attention and his performances should be enough to land the Briton another year in pro cycli...

Filippo Fiorelli is one of Team Visma | Lease a Bike's Italian signings for the 2026 season. After a great season at Bardiani he makes a huge leap to the WorldTour against all odds at the age of 30, a transfer that surprised him at all levels and will see him team up with the likes of Wout van Aert...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike has over the past few years been host for several quality riders, but in a team with so many leaders, it takes a lot to stand out. Attila Valter didn't manage to get the freedom he ambitioned in the Dutch team and is departing it at the end of 2025.  "Three great years in y...

By mid-November, several World Tour teams have already hostel small team camps where the new riders have been presented, and a lot of information has been gathered about everyone's data, sensations, ambitions and much more. But other teams continue to grasp for a lifeline and attempting to sign new...

Julian Alaphilippe is a rider with a big name, and so after several years of internal disputes at Soudal - Quick-Step, the Frenchman finally made his big move last winter towards Tudor Pro Cycling Team. A full change of scenery for the former two-time World Champion, who was now at the helm of a sec...

2025 was not a season that has seen too many sensational winners, at least not on the men's part. However the situations was very different at women's side where the season started with breakaway win at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, then followed by somewhat shocking performances of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot,...

Track cycling has been part of the Summer Olympic Games since 1896, while Road cycling joined in 1936 after a four-decade hiatus following its 1896 debut. Since then, Mountain bikes have also found its way to the Olympic Games in 2012 with less traditional disciplines such as BMX have already made t...

The first-ever World Championships on African soil are already a history, but behind the scenes, the Rwandan Cycling Federation are already working on a plan to keep the momentum going for years to come. Alongside the International Cycling Union, Rwandans are currently exploring the possibilities, w...

The disparity between best and worst WorldTour teams couldn't be more alarming. It is no secret that UAE Team Emirates - XRG operate on double (or sometimes even triple) the budget of teams such as Intermarché - Wanty and then it doesn't come as a surprise that the latter has opted to merge with Lot...

The richest grow stronger while average men starve. That's one way to summarize the current situation of the two top cycling divisions. The difference between top WorldTour teams and bottom-tier ProTeams is absolutely abyssmal and thus the many sponsors of these smaller teams pulling out is a logica...

In 2009, Alberto Contador was already one of the best cyclists in the world and the main contender for every Grand Tour he entered. He had just won his first Tour de France in 2007 and enjoyed a very successful 2008 with a victories at the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España - completing the triple cr...

The United States of America are a massively populated and wealthy country, in which access to cycling is easy but the calendar is reduced when it comes to professional road cycling. However, the nation has two World Tour teams and at the time being, 14 riders signed at the top division of the sport...

Out of the 10 most recent races Lorena Wiebes has started, she won 9. The European Champion is THE rider who has won the most in 2025 - men and women combined - and she 'hates losing'. Those are the words of the Gravel World Champion, who is women's cycling most dominating sprinter and is looking to...

Tim Wellens was signed by UAE Team Emirates - XRG and it turned out to be a transfer of absolute perfection. The Belgian is at his very best level ever, despite being at the top of the cycling world for over a decade already; and the team won a perfect right-hand man for Tadej Pogacar.  When questio...

The post-Tour de France criteriums are a long-standing tradition in pro cycling in which there are exhibition races (mostly in France and Belgium in the weeks following) in Europe and Asia after the end of the season. The Singapore and Saitama Criteriums recently have attracted a lot of headlines, a...

Great Britain currently has only one pro cycling team: INEOS Grenadiers. A country that is the birthplace of so many successful riders and has such an ingrained culture in the sport continues to suffer, and it seems to have no end. The lack of teams is already incredibly difficult for the nation, an...

Roger De Vlaeminck’s latest verbal grenade — claiming Tadej Pogacar “isn’t fit to lace Eddy Merckx’s shoes” and that he “wouldn’t drop me if I were still in the peloton” — has caused ripples well beyond Belgium. Now one of his former rivals, Riccardo Magrini, has joined the debate, accusing the four...

The 2026 season is still a long way off, but it is slowly approaching, and there are still several dozens of riders that race at the highest level without a contract. Amongst these are several leaders, veterans and the former World Champion Michal Kwiatkowski, whose time with INEOS Grenadiers may be...

Ben O'Connor at age 29 is right around the peak of his career but the 2025 season was a mixed bag. The Australian rider spent several years with Dimension Data and the Decathlon AG2R team where he became a stage winner at the highest level and almost a Grand Tour winner, but moved away into Australi...

Soudal - Quick-Step's development team has been set up in 2023 on the basis of Belgian continental Team Elevate p/b Home Solution Soenens. Since then, many talented riders have found their way to the higher divisions of cycling. And Federico Savino hopes to become another success story of this under...

Marion Norbert Riberolle will have to skip the upcoming cyclocross races in Merksplas and Hamme after being absent from the startlist of Niel Superprestige. The Belgian champion was hit by a car during training on Sunday, the day after the European Championships where she finished 13th. A day later,...

Alexander Salby will definitely have a smile on his face this off-season, no matter at which team he lands for 2026. The 27-year-old cyclist from Aarhus racked up 9 professional victories this season, massively extending his previous palmares that featured only two triumphs before the season. And de...

Following a disappointment at the European Cyclocross Championships, Lucinda Brand arrived for the Jaarmarktcross Niel with an added motivation to prove who's the best cyclocrosser in women's peloton. And in the third round of Superprestige on Tuesday, the Baloise - Trek Lions star was unmatched by...

Paul Seixas is bound to attract the attention of French cycling fans for years to come. The promising 19-year-old climber took his first steps in WorldTour this year with Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, proving his immense potential right away. And as is always the case, public would love to see their n...

Three rounds into the 2025/26 Telenet Superprestige and both overall classifications are already finely poised. Michael Vanthourenhout continues to defend his early dominance on the men’s side, while Inge van der Heijden has emerged as the surprise pacesetter in an unpredictable women’s contest that...

Jean-René Bernaudeau believes modern cycling is in danger of losing patience with its own talent — warning that the sport’s obsession with early success risks erasing a generation of riders who mature more slowly. In a reflective interview with Cyclism’Actu, the long-time TotalEnergies boss used the...

For years, Thymen Arensman had been tipped as one of the Netherlands’ most promising Grand Tour riders. But it wasn’t until the 2025 Tour de France — a race defined by Tadej Pogacar’s dominance — that the INEOS Grenadiers climber finally delivered the breakthrough many had long predicted. Two stage...

In the most recent update on the cycling market there are plenty teams that have hit the market hard including EF Education-EasyPost who have finally begun unveiling their transfers for the 2026 season, and Unibet Rose Rockets who have signed Victor Lafay in hopes of reaching the Tour de France next...

Pavel Sivakov has never been afraid to dig into the difficult questions about his own career. Once tipped as a Grand Tour winner in waiting, the Frenchman’s path has instead evolved into something more complex — and, in his eyes, far more meaningful. In a revealing end-of-season interview with Cycli...

Two days after a frustrating European Championship left him well off the pace, Laurens Sweeck bounced back in style at Jaarmarktcross Niel, claiming his first victory of the season in the tightest of finishes. The Belgian rider snatched victory from Niels Vandeputte in a thrilling final sprint, seal...

The men’s Superprestige Niel served up one of the most unpredictable finishes of the season, as Laurens Sweeck edged out Niels Vandeputte in a dramatic last-gasp sprint. From the outset, the race promised fireworks. Swiss rider Kevin Kuhn and Czech challenger Michael Jezek were the first to show the...

Jonas Vingegaard has admitted he was completely unaware of the knee injury that almost forced Tadej Pogacar to abandon the 2025 Tour de France — a revelation that has only now come to light thanks to Tim Wellens’ detailed account of the crisis that unfolded behind the scenes at UAE Team Emirates - X...

Lucinda Brand continued her superb run of autumn form with a commanding victory at the Superprestige Jaarmarktcross Niel, leading from the early laps and never looking back to claim her fourth win at the event and her fifth triumph of the 2025 season. On a dry, fast course that rewarded rhythm and c...

The end of the 2025 road season has led to the typical criteriums where cyclists perform exhibitions for the public. For example, this Sunday in Saitama one was held in which Jonas Vingegaard won. The Visma star won in front of the Japanese public. But as well as these races, there are also analyses...

The idea of charging fans to stand beside the road during a bike race – long considered unthinkable in cycling’s free-to-watch tradition – is gaining surprising traction. Days after Jerôme Pineau caused a stir by suggesting the 2026 Tour de France could “privatise” the upper slopes of Alpe d’Huez, f...

2025 has arguably been Ben Healy's best season of his young career, with a Tour de France stage win, time in the yellow jersey, and a bronze medal at the World Championships. While Healy’s aerodynamics, climbing ability, and racing instincts have all contributed to his success, EF Education-EasyPost...

The 2026 WorldTour season will, as usual, begin in Australia, with the Santos Tour Down Under scheduled from January 20 to 25, kicking off the international racing calendar. Organizers have unveiled a challenging route that blends opportunities for sprinters with decisive mountain stages, including...

Jonas Vingegaard won the Saitama Criterium in the traditional end-of-campaign exhibition race that he attended with other big stars of world cycling such as Primoz Roglic or Jonathan Milan. In Japan, he has talked about plenty topics including next season's Grand Tour choices, Cian Uitjtdebroeks' de...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike don't have the deep pockets of UAE Team Emirates - XRG or Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, and so this winter they have had to play their cards differently. They have signed a few unexpected riders, amongst them Filippo Fiorelli, a rider who turned pro at age 25 and has spent h...

INEOS Grenadiers currently have 22 riders confirmed for their 2026 lineup, with eight positions left to fill. In their roster currently are five riders who have not renewed with the team or signed a contract with any other. What will be of their future?  Kwiatkowski is obviously the biggest name on...

Jonas Abrahamsen is a very special rider, one of the most combative in the peloton, and his combativity has been shown also off the bike. Abrahamsen fractured his collarbone on the 18th of June, on the 5th of July he started the Tour de France, and on the 16th he won a stage. This, despite not even...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe is currently in a complicated situation with Oier Lazkano, having signed the Spaniard as a great hope into the 2025 season but not having had any reward from it. Furthermore the rouleur was suspended from racing internally from May onwards, and suspended by the UCI now in...

Barely a week after walking away from its crisis-stricken partnership with Israel – Premier Tech, Canadian company Premier Tech is already being courted by several top-tier squads eager to bring the brand back into the WorldTour fold. According to Daniel Benson’s latest reporting, both INEOS Grenadi...

Lidl-Trek has announced the addition of Bernhard Eisel as its newest Sport Director, marking a significant reinforcement to the team’s leadership structure. The Austrian, who enjoyed a 18-year professional racing career before retiring in 2019 and then spending four years in the team car with Red B...

In today’s season review, we’re looking at Bahrain – Victorious. The 2025 season was supposed to mark another leap forward for the squad, a team entering its ninth year at the sport’s highest level. With a mix of established names and emerging stars too, expectations were high for big results and so...

Clara Koppenburg, the German rider for Cofidis, has recently participated in the Nedbank Gravel Burn, a gravel stage race held in South Africa. She also opened up in a conversation regarding eating disorders in the peloton and how her performance changed taking into consideration her strategy.  Afte...

Sarah Gigante has taken her latest comeback to new extremes, completing a 190-kilometer indoor ride on Zwift during a 4.5-hour session over the weekend. The Australian rider suffered a heavy training crash while training in August, right after the Tour de France Femmes, which left her with a broken...

In recent years, there is no denying the progress that has been made in women’s cycling. On the face of it, salary minimums, better contracts and rising viewership seem to signal progress in women’s racing. But dig deeper and the gap remains wide, in prize money, team budgets, media access and caree...

The 2026 season still has a couple of months to go before it gets off to a flying start. However, preparations have already begun, and that means that the stars of the teams are surely already planning their respective calendars, especially for the grand tours. Within Team Visma | Lease a Bike, how...

Cyclocross didn’t spring from a lab; it sloshed out of winter fields and the need for riders to stay fit when the roads turned hostile. Ask where it began and you’ll land in early-20th-century France, where cyclists threaded farm tracks, hurdled fences, and shouldered their bikes between towns in a...

Valentin Paret-Peintre is one of Soudal - Quick-Step's most interesting cards and with Remco Evenepoel departing, he gains a new role in the team. More opportunities, more freedom, but also more responsibility.  "I think we are entering a new phase for Soudal Quick-Step. The team wants to refocus on...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is a team stacked with top talent from top to bottom and just being part of it requires a very high level. Julien Vermote didn't make the cut and is looking for a contract into the 2026 season. But at the time being, nothing is signed or assured.  “You always know it’s the...

One of the big stories of this winter is the merger between Intermarché - Wanty and Lotto. In many ways, a chaotic one, and one in which the riders do not seem to have been satisfied with taking into consideration the mixed signals that have been sent throughout the past few months. This sees severa...

Uno-X Mobility are officially moving up to the World Tour in 2026 and with this come some changes. In truth, the team will remain faithful with its block of leaders, but it could be on the verge of signing a new one. Torstein Traeen could be the rider elected to fill position number 30 in the Norweg...

Allan Peiper is one of the most influencial figures in pro cycling that fans don't often see. Throughout the past decades he's been the manager of several World Tour teams, and most recently managed UAE Team Emirates - XRG during Tadej Pogacar's first three years in the team. He stepped away from pr...

Primoz Roglic is heading into a season where a lot of new things await, as Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe is set to have Florian Lipowitz as a new big star and Remco Evenepoel coming into the team. The Slovenian's role is rather undefined but he has ambitions left in his career, and whilst he has the l...

Demi Vollering was one of the absolute best riders in the peloton already for several years, and her success was developed at Team SD Worx - ProTime, and so when news of her departure came at the end of 2024, it would go on to rock the women's cycling scene. She and Marlen Reusser went from part of...

Nicolas Roche had a successful road professional career that extended across nearly two decades with highlight two stage triumphs at the Vuelta a Espana. The Irishman hung up his bike at the end of 2021, but since then he didn't just sit on his sofa idly. In the subsequent years, Roche picked up gra...

While much of the sport’s focus often revolves around the “big three” of Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and Tom Pidcock, Dutch ex-pro turned expert Thijs Zonneveld believes the 2025 Cyclocross European Championships showed just how entertaining the sport can be without them. In Middelkerke, fa...

Belgian cyclist Jordi Warlop has decided to put an end to his career after eight years in the professional peloton. He is retiring at a young age, as he is just 29 years old. Sharing the news through his personal Instagram, Warlop reflected on both the triumphs and challenges of his career, expressi...

Promising Belgian rider Luca De Meester has announced his retirement from professional cycling at just 25 years old, bringing an abrupt end to a career that once promised much for the powerful classics rider. In a heartfelt Instagram post, De Meester revealed that ongoing medical problems had left h...

The 2026 road season is slowly approaching. Preparations have only just begun, but many important changes are expected for next year's calendar. One of them has to do with the renaming of one of the most historic and prestigious races, the Gent Wevelgem. The Gent Wevelgem is a race that has been hel...

Just days after UCI director Peter Van Den Abeele hinted that Tadej Pogacar’s team were blocking his potential return to cyclocross, veteran Italian journalist Beppe Conti has offered a strikingly different version of events — one that could place the world champion at the centre of one of cycling’s...

Greg Van Avermaet is no longer part of the road peloton, having retired two years ago. The 2016 Olympic champion enjoyed a splendid road career, and after finishing his mission, he took his skills off the road. Gravel racing seems to be mandatory for the retired ex-pros, but Van Avermaet has taken t...

Belgian cycling great Roger De Vlaeminck has launched a blistering attack on modern-day stars, claiming Tadej Pogacar is being “heavily overrated” and insisting no one from today’s peloton compares to Eddy Merckx. In a typically fiery interview with Het Laatste Nieuws, the 78-year-old icon dismissed...

After stepping away from racing last year to focus on his mental health, Leo Hayter will return to the professional peloton in 2026 with the new Hincapie-backed Modern Adventure Pro Cycling project. The Briton, once seen as one of INEOS Grenadiers’ brightest stage-race prospects, joins the 20-rider...

Jonathan Milan's 2025 season ended up being a bit longer than he would have liked it to be, but after the Saitama Criterium, the Lidl-Trek finally also gets his deserved time off the bike. While a great opportunity to go on holidays, the Italian also took some time to sum up the passed season and lo...

Pim Ronhaar was the man chosen to carry the Dutch flag highest during elite men's race at the European Cyclocross Championships in Middelkerke. Surrounded by Belgian rivals, the 24-year-old was faced with a difficult task, and ultimately a 4th place was the maximum possible for the rider of Baloise...

For a long time, Edoardo Affini was only Italian cyclist on Visma | Lease a Bike men's team. But that is bound to change in 2026 as the Dutch team signed three new riders coming from the Italian peninsula. Next to Pietro Mattio who graduated from Visma's academy, there will be also Davide Piganzoli...

It was supposed to be the day Joris Nieuwenhuis confirmed his rise into the elite hierarchy of men’s cyclocross. Instead, the Dutchman endured a harrowing afternoon in Middelkerke, fighting not for medals but for air. Nieuwenhuis had lined up among the pre-race favourites after victories at Rapencro...

Filippo Baroncini’s return to the bike in the Dubai sunshine marked a moment few inside UAE Team Emirates - XRG will forget. The 25-year-old Italian, who only months ago lay in an induced coma with multiple fractures after a horror crash at the Tour de Pologne, is pedalling again – and doing so with...

Cofidis rider Ludovic Robeet has shared a positive update on his recovery, two months after suffering a stroke that left his 2025 season in doubt. The Belgian has revealed that he is now back on the bike outdoors — a major milestone in what has been a long and uncertain road to recovery. In a heartf...

Belgian cyclocross continues to face an uncomfortable truth — two of its most recognisable riders are fighting the same potentially career-ending vascular condition. While Eli Iserbyt remains absent from competition nearly nine months after his last race, Laura Verdonschot has revealed that she too...

Thibau Nys fought through injury and self-doubt at the 2025 Cyclocross European Championships in Middelkerke on Sunday afternoon, but had to settle for silver after being out-sprinted by compatriot Toon Aerts in a dramatic finale on the Belgian coast. The 22-year-old arrived at the start line uncert...

Tears flowed on the sand of Middelkerke as Toon Aerts produced one of the most emotional victories of his career, claiming the European Championship after a dramatic sprint finish against Thibau Nys. For the 32-year-old Belgian, the gold medal marked not just a comeback to winning ways, but the begi...

In a thrilling finale worthy of a continental title, Toon Aerts claimed the Cyclocross European Championship in Middelkerke after a tense last-lap sprint against Thibau Nys. The 30-year-old Belgian held his nerve through the final dunes and powered to gold, securing his first major championship win...

There was no contest. In a season that felt like a highlight reel from start to finish, Tadej Pogacar has been voted CyclingUpToDate’s Men’s Rider of the Year for 2025, taking a staggering 630 of 851 votes (74%) in the public poll. The result reflects the scale of his dominance across every corner o...

After a busy and successful season in which he won a stage at both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, Wout van Aert is taking a well deserved rest before starting the 2025-2026 cyclocross season. Before going to the mud, the Belgian star decided to cross the Atlantic ocean and replace the bik...

After two seasons with Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, Matteo Sobrero is preparing for a fresh start with Lidl-Trek in 2026 — and as he leaves one of cycling’s most ambitious projects behind, the Italian has offered an unusually candid glimpse into what life inside the Red Bull structure is really like...

This Sunday's European Championships events eventually culminate with the men's elite race, one in which there are many potential candidates for victory. With no Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert, and in a course where Thibau Nys isn't expected to dominate, it's an open battle field in Middelke...

Jonas Vingegaard has raced and won the Tour de France's Saitama Criterium this Sunday, an exhibition race in Japan where he is having a family vacation away from Europe. The Dane also crashed early in the race, and provided an update on his injuries from the 2024 Itzulia Basque Country crash.  “I ju...

The 2025-2026 Cyclocross European Championships take place this weekend in Middelkerke, Belgium, and the men's elite race is the highlight of this Sunday. In the startlist are lacking big names such as Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and Eli Iserbyt; but we have defending champion Thibau Nys at...

Unibet Rose Rockets could well race the 2026 Tour de France after one more wildcard has been attributed from this summer onwards, the team's French nationality and the major growth in level this winter. Victor Lafay was attracted by the project and that goal, and for a potential return as a leader t...

Many World Tour riders are still at this point in time looking for a contract for 2026 and this includes high-level riders who are capable of leading positions almost anywhere in pro cycling. However many are not guarranteed a presence in the World Tour and the peloton but one team has seemed to hav...

Johan Bruyneel is a common critic of the UCI and its actions, specially those from David Lappartient - and after the suspension of Oier Lazkano over biological passport anomalies, the Belgian pundit brings forward the point that cycling's governing body may treat riders differently depending on thei...

The season has come to a close and throughout the weeks that follow there are multiple Tour de France-organized events, specially in the Asian countries, as some of the biggest stars in the world compete in exhibition races. Today at the Saitama Criterium, it was Jonas Vingegaard who took the win. ...

Turned pro with INEOS Grenadiers and was one of its brightest talents for years. But Ethan Hayter is a very particular rider, and his skillset has evolved greatly over the past few years. His move to Soudal - Quick-Step was motivated by a bad ending with INEOS management, and with an improvement whe...

Marlen Reusser has recently spoken out forcefully against doping in cycling, emphasizing the importance of integrity for both the sport and her own sense of fulfillment and categorically rejecting having ever considered to resort to it. “Not at all. Simply because I don’t need it,” Reusser said in a...

The Cyclo-cross European Championships are taking place this weekend in Middelkerke, Belgium. After Inge van der Heijden became the new female European champion on Saturday, it will be the turn for men on Sunday. The biggest dominator of the last decade, Mathieu van der Poel, will not be at the star...

After a fertile and successful career, the best Japanese rider ever Yukiya Arashiro no longer rides to prove anything to anyone. The 41-year old does not have a contract for the upcoming season yet, but retirement does not seem a possibility for now. Now part of Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini, a...

He’s just 19, but Adrià Pericas already sounds like a rider who belongs in cycling’s biggest team. The young Spaniard has capped off a breakout season with UAE Team Emirates - XRG by reflecting on the surreal moment he found himself training alongside Tadej Pogacar — and discovering that the world’s...

When Vincenzo Nibali starts singing and Nairo Quintana joins in, you know it’s not your usual post-race podium. For one weekend in Barranquilla, cycling legends from different eras swapped race radios and mountain passes for microphones and laughter — all under the Caribbean sun. The occasion was El...

UAE Team Emirates – XRG are heading into the 2026 season with an enviable problem. After years of building almost entirely around Tadej Pogacar, the emergence of Isaac Del Toro as a Grand Tour revelation and João Almeida’s steady climb towards elite GC status have opened up a fresh internal debate:...

Primoz Roglic has confirmed that he hopes to return to the Vuelta a Espana in 2026 to chase what would be a record-breaking fifth overall victory, after sitting out the 2025 edition for the first time since his debut in the race six years ago. Speaking to AS while attending the Saitama Criterium in...

Inge van der Heijden delivered the ride of her life in Middelkerke, storming to the European Championship title after a dominant solo display that stunned even the pre-race favourite Lucinda Brand. The Dutch rider led from the first climb to the finish line, securing an eighth consecutive European c...

It was billed as a coronation for Lucinda Brand, but it was Inge van der Heijden who produced the performance of her life on the sands of Middelkerke, powering to a shock victory at the Women’s Elite European Championships. The 26-year-old Dutchwoman led from start to finish to deliver an eighth con...

For most riders, the off-season means rest. For Davide Stella, it means one final race, another flight, and a notebook full of lessons from an eleven-month campaign that has carried him across four continents. The 19-year-old from Friuli, Italy, who began his year at the Al Salam Championship in the...

The stage is set for a fascinating women’s elite Cyclocross European Championship this afternoon in Lombardsijde — and for once, the Dutch stranglehold on the event looks vulnerable. With champion riders Fem van Empel, Puck Pieterse and Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado all missing from the start list, opp...

The dust is far from settled after Premier Tech’s abrupt decision to sever ties with the team formerly known as Israel – Premier Tech. Hours after the Canadian company confirmed it would end its co-title sponsorship with immediate effect, a leaked internal memo from general manager Kjell Carlstrom r...

Bradley Wiggins has revealed that he is travelling to the United States for an intensive week of trauma counselling — a visit to a Utah clinic funded by Lance Armstrong. Speaking during a promotional event for his new autobiography The Chain, Wiggins said he was preparing to fly to America “on Frida...

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has been voted CyclingUpToDate’s Women’s Rider of the Year for 2025, taking a commanding victory in the public poll after one of the most significant comeback seasons modern women’s cycling has ever seen. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike star collected 96 of 234 votes (41%), well...

The crisis engulfing the team formerly known as Israel – Premier Tech has reached a breaking point. Canadian company Premier Tech has terminated its co-title sponsorship with immediate effect, citing that the project’s “core reason” for involvement had been “overshadowed to a point where it has beco...

It’s been a year of highs and hard knocks for Jasper Philipsen. The Belgian sprinter, who began 2025 by winning Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne and later pulled on both the yellow jersey at the Tour de France and the red jersey at the Vuelta a Espana, has revealed just how mentally draining the middle part o...

One of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team’s newest recruit, Tobias Lund Andresen, has revealed that his first pre-season camp with the French squad was anything but a quiet affair — admitting the team’s bonding sessions involved “beer, shots and plenty of laughs” as the group got to know each other ahe...

The 2025 season is over. Although this last year on the road was not meant to be Davide Cimolai's farewell, the Italian has found himself in a situation where he has decided that the most logical thing to do is to hang up the bike. At 36 years of age, the Movistar Team member believes that the best...

Many cyclists have retired in the 2025 season, but very few (if any) with the career of Alexander Kristoff. The Norwegian has decided to hang up his bike at the age of 38 after one last dance with the Uno-X Mobility team, and with 98 pro wins under his belt. But that doesn't mean he's forgetting the...

The end of the 2025 season came as a blow to Cofidis. Despite attempts to retain the World Tour license, the French team was unable to avoid relegation, which has condemned it to the Pro Team category until at least 2028, where it could be promoted again after the end of that three-year period. It w...

Dylan Groenewegen, Wout Poels, and most recently Victor Lafay. Unibet Rose Rockets have made some serious moves this off-season with the aim to be at the start of the 2026 Tour de France. And with three former Tour stage winners among their ranks, that scenario is very well realistic all of a sudden...

Jayco AlUla had a dizzy period in recent months with complicated financial situation almost pushing the Australian team over the edge. At one point, riders were even allowed by UCI to leave the team, but ultimately everything came together successfully for both the men's and women's teams to continu...

Eli Iserbyt’s season — and possibly his career — hangs in the balance after another crushing injury setback forced the Belgian to stop racing completely. The 28-year-old Pauwels Sauzen–Altez Industriebouw rider has been ordered to take four weeks of full rest, with his future now depending on the ou...

After a season marked by both triumph and turbulence, Jasper Philipsen says his sights are shifting — from bunch sprints to the brutal cobbles of the Classics. The Belgian star, speaking to Tutto Bici Web after closing his year at the Tour de France EFGH Singapore Criterium, revealed that Alpecin-De...

Joran Wyseure has set his sights on a breakthrough performance at this weekend’s Cyclocross European Championships in Middelkerke, confident that the course, conditions, and timing all play to his strengths. Five weeks on from his victory at the Berencross in Meulebeke, the 24-year-old Crelan-Corend...

Tim Wellens has lifted the lid on just how close Tadej Pogacar came to abandoning the 2025 Tour de France — revealing the world champion required an emergency hospital scan mid-race due to a serious knee scare. The Slovenian went on to ride into Paris in yellow for a fourth time, but the Belgian has...

Team Picnic PostNL have moved to strengthen their roster ahead of the 2026 season, unveiling two promising signings with markedly different paths into the professional peloton — Italian climber Mattia Gaffuri and French all-rounder Henri-Francois Haquin. Both riders will step up from the continental...

Florian Lipowitz has reflected on the mental and emotional strain of his breakthrough Tour de France, revealing how the pressure of unexpectedly riding for the podium began to weigh on him as the race unfolded. The 25-year-old German, who became the first rider from his country since Jan Ullrich to...

A flicker of tension appeared in the Nys household last weekend — a reminder that even Belgium’s most famous cycling family isn’t immune to a bit of friction. For all their shared success in cyclocross, Niels Albert believes father and son Sven and Thibau Nys couldn’t be more different in temperamen...

Jonas Vingegaard will close out his 2025 season in style this weekend, swapping the rigours of Grand Tour racing for the spectacle of the Saitama Criterium in Japan — an event as much about entertainment as it is about cycling. The two-time Tour de France winner has travelled to Tokyo with his famil...

There was only ever going to be one winner. After a campaign that rewrote records and redefined modern dominance, UAE Team Emirates – XRG have been voted CyclingUpToDate’s Team of the Year for 2025. The Emirati powerhouse claimed an overwhelming 199 votes in our reader poll — more than every other n...

For a couple of years now, Tadej Pogacar has become an almost unbeatable figure in pro cycling. The Slovenian is by far the most successful rider in the current peloton. As a result, in 2025 he surpassed a 2024 season that was already said to have been the best individual season in history. The most...

The 2025 season sees plenty of top riders and former stars hanging up their wheels and this includes former Grand Tour winners, World Champions and many of the 2010's best sprinters. It is a list of 28 World Tour riders and 17 ProTeam riders, thus far, who have confirmed they are ending their career...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike have won two Grand Tours this year and continue to perform at the very top level but financially speaking they are losing ground to the other top teams. Bjarne Riis, one of Denmark's most important figures and compatriot of Jonas Vingegaard, worries that this could become a...

EF Education-EasyPost have finally begun sharing their signings and after Luke Lamperti and Michael Leonard, the American team has confirmed the signing of another top talent who raced for the UAE Team Emirates - XRG development team: Matthias Schwarzbacher.  “Matthias can really impress in those sh...

INEOS Grenadiers' 2026 lineup is still rather unclear with many spots left unfilled, but one of them will not be taken by its rider Michael Leonard. The Canadian rider is moving away from the British team and joining EF Education-EasyPost on a three-year deal where the American team is looking to de...

The 2026 campaign is getting ready little by little. Although the off-season has only just begun, the days are passing, and in the blink of an eye the World Tour teams will once again be competing on the road for the best victories on the calendar. And, as every year, many spotlights will be on the...

Looking ahead to 2026, one of the expected developments in the World Tour peloton is the formation of a new team born from the merger between Lotto and Intermarché - Wanty. The two outfits have merged and will race under the former's first division license. However, the President of the CPA (Profess...

UAE Team ADQ concluded 2025 as the world's third best team, at least per the UCI ranking. Less than 2.000 points shy of FDJ - SUEZ and SD Worx, the women's version of the dominant men's team UAE Team Emirates - XRG can aim to join their male colleagues at the top of the cycling world next year. But...

Tom Pidcock's transfer to Q36.5 Pro Cycling seems to have been exactly what the talented Brit needed to unleash his best self. All of a sudden, Pidcock was able to consistently finish on podiums in the biggest races, including Vuelta a Espana, La Fleche Wallonne or Strade Bianche. With that, the 26-...

The 2025 season is now over and it is possible to make the math of the riders who have raced the most this year. Often unsung heroes, these are not usually the riders who take the big wins, but usually work horses or riders who love the Grand Tours and race a heavy calendar all-year long. The one wh...

The Cyclocross European Championships will take place this weekend in Middelkerke, Belgium, and it will be a track that is somewhat different than the regular. In a sandy course, defending champion Thibau Nys certainly won't be the man to beat as was the case last year in Pontevedra. He discusses hi...

Former Luxembourg rider Gaëtan Pons retired from cycling in 2019 at age 27 and became a sports director in recent years, making his presence felt at Unibet Rose Rockets where he's spent the past two seasons. His talents haven't gone unnoticed and Team Visma | Lease a Bike have gone on to sign the 33...

Remco Evenepoel had a very busy and successful end to the season, conquering the World and European time trial championships as well as finishing second to Tadej Pogacar in the road races and Il Lombardia. Afterwards, he had a team camp with his new teammates at Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe and a sti...

Unibet Rose Rockets are quickly becoming one of the top ProTeams in the scene, having signed several top riders this winter that will exponencially increase their level into the 2026 season. It is even possible to aim for a Tour de France wildcard in a few months, taking into consideration the array...

Yesterday Egan Bernal posted a video on his social networks to report the theft of the bike with which he won the Tour de France in 2019. The INEOS Grenadiers rider is the last rider of the British team to win the Tour back in 2019, when he and Geraint Thomas finished on the top of the standings aft...

Mathieu van der Poel's return to cyclocross is now not a distant scenario. As the peloton enter November and the winter, the specialists who spent the season on the road begin to prepare for a change with specific training. In the World Champion's case, some stunt riding in the Spanish sun.  In a sh...

XDS Astana Team were scrambling for UCI points this year and although the Kazakh team comfortably managed to make the split, it's easy to forget that at the start of the year, chances seemed low that the team would even be able to survive in the World Tour. Because of their ambitions, the team signe...

Tom Dumoulin has paid tribute to Jonas Vingegaard’s remarkable rise from loyal domestique to two-time Tour de France champion, admitting he never imagined the Dane would go on to dominate cycling’s biggest race. The Dutchman, who retired in 2022 at just 31, shared a team with Vingegaard at Jumbo-Vis...

In today’s season review for 2025, we arrive at the Arkea – B&B Hotels team. So unfortunately, this story is not one with a happy ending. The 2025 season was a turbulent and ultimately defining year for the Arka - B&B Hotels men’s road cycling team. Arkéa entered 2025 with modest expectations and lo...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is one of the teams at the very top of the cycling world and so for Dan McLay to be signed last winter, it was a great opportunity for a rebirth in the scene. He was set to be a key leadout man for Olav Kooij - who is now also leaving the team - but the Briton struggled thr...

The long-expected has been confirmed on Wednesday. Fem van Empel abandoned the Koppenbergcross after just half a lap last weekend, leaving fans in doubt about her reason for that and whether she would still participate in the European Cyclocross Championships in Middelkerke on Saturday. For the latt...

The biggest cycling teams are always on the lookout for the most talented young riders. The chances of discovering the next Remco Evenepoel or Tadej Pogacar are very intriguing, but teams shouldn't forget some steps in their easter egg hunt. At least that's how Cole Kessler who has been a part of th...

The end of a three-year UCI ranking cycle will bring many more or less significant changes to the structure of top cycling. The less happy news are that two traditional Belgian projects Lotto and Intermarché - Wanty will merge into a single team, closing a WorldTour formation alongside its under-23...

Ahead of 2025, Tom Pidcock made a daring move to leave one of the world's biggest teams INEOS Grenadiers to join a middle-of-the-pack ProTeam Q36.5 Pro Cycling. It was a clear statement from the 26-year-old Brit who has grown tired of the endless power struggles in the unclear leadership hierarchy a...

Alan Hatherly was a wildcard signing for Team Jayco AlUla in 2025, but it was a complete success. The South African has managed to balance his time on the road and mountain biking quite well, and on the previous he managed to take some quite interesting results where his potential was fulfilled - an...

Victor Lafay’s career looked dangerously close to an early ending after two seasons wrecked by injury and illness. But the picture around the 29-year-old’s future has brightened considerably, and he has been confirmed to join Unibet Rose Rockets.  Lafay was hailed as one of the breakout stars of the...

Valentin Paret-Peintre is a tremendously talented climber and this was recognized by Soudal - Quick-Step who signed him on a long-term contract. Initially set to support Remco Evenepoel in the mountains, the Frenchman now finds himself in a much more free position, where he should have plenty opport...

UAE Team Emirates - XRG have managed to win almost 100 pro races this year and next season they may achieve that taking into consideration their new signings. Benoît Cosnefroy is a proven winner, and if the Emirati team is able to get the Frenchman into his best form, then he can certainly boost tho...

In a year filled with unforgettable displays of power and nerve, readers have chosen Tadej Pogacar’s solo World Championships victory in Kigali as the defining ride of 2025. The Slovenian superstar claimed a commanding win in our Individual Performance of the Year poll, earning 267 votes — a result...

Team Jayco AlUla have landed a major sprinting coup ahead of the 2026 season, securing the signature of German fast-man Pascal Ackermann on a two-year deal. The 31-year-old will lead the Australian squad’s sprint programme through 2026 and 2027, bringing a formidable palmares and a wealth of experie...

Lenny Martinez has spoken candidly about the controversy that overshadowed his Tour de France debut, admitting that the backlash to his sticky-bottle incident was difficult to ignore — even as he insists there was no intent to gain an unfair advantage. The young French climber was sensationally dock...

With the 2025 season in the books, it’s hard to ignore how two of cycling’s brightest young stars — Isaac del Toro and Juan Ayuso — have travelled down completely different roads this year. Both started with the same jersey, both were tipped to become the future of UAE Team Emirates - XRG. By season...

Tadej Pogacar’s peers are running out of superlatives. And now, three Grand Tour champions — Nairo Quintana, Egan Bernal and Vincenzo Nibali — have united in their belief that the Slovenian will continue to dominate cycling in 2026 and beyond. Speaking during the Giro de Rigo event in Colombia, in q...

Dylan Groenewegen spent four seasons at Jayco AlUla, leading the Australian team to 21 professional victories, including two at the Tour de France. Scoring around 4,600 UCI points in that period, Groenewegen was an important contributor to Jayco AlUla's total amount as the team was far from safe, fi...

Twelve hours after conquering the Koppenberg in one of the standout cyclocross displays of the season so far, Thibau Nys found himself wrestling a very different opponent at Rapencross Lokeren: chaos. Dropped shifters, repeated bike swaps, a crooked cockpit and finally a sand-pit crash turned the Eu...

Unibet Rose Rockets will become a name to be respected within the professional peloton in 2026. A project that started on whim rather than with a clear vision has taken things up a notch this season with mutliple strong recruitments on the transfer market. Their latest "magic trick" was to sign Wout...

The European Cyclocross Championships are just around the corner. This weekend, Middelkerke will host the 11th edition of the race to crown the best cyclocrosser of Europe. Among main favourites are the defending champion Thibau Nys in men's race while the flying Lucinda Brand's odds to win the wome...

For a week this September, Rwanda has become the heart of the cycling world. With first-ever cycling World Championships on African soil, many of the biggest stars explored the scenic land whilst competing for rainbow jersey. And while the likes of Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel are not likely to...

Lotte Kopecky won't remember the 2025 season as one full of positive emotions and big successes. In a last attempt to write an optimistic final chapter to her story of 2025, Kopecky will line up for the popular track event, the Six Days of Ghent (November 18-23). Kopecky won't contest the general cl...

After several stop-start seasons hampered by health and setbacks, Max Schachmann quietly rebuilt himself in 2025 — and now the former two-time Paris-Nice champion is eyeing a full-blooded return to winning level in Soudal - Quick-Step colours next year. Back in the Wolfpack jersey for the first time...

Lidl-Trek rider Otto Vergaerde has spoken out after his home in Melle, Belgium was burglarised while he was on holiday in Spain with his girlfriend, with thieves breaking in via the roof and stealing jewellery and watches. The 31-year-old Belgian had only just arrived for his break when the shocking...

Even before the peloton heads back to the slopes of Alpe d’Huez twice during the 2026 Tour de France, the iconic climb is already at the centre of a fierce debate about cycling’s future. Former B&B Hotels manager Jerôme Pineau has reignited the long-running question of how the sport should fund itse...

EF Education-EasyPost have confirmed the signing of American talent Luke Lamperti, securing one of the United States’ brightest rising stars ahead of the 2026 season. The 22-year-old arrives from Soudal - Quick-Step and is already seen as a future cornerstone of the American WorldTour squad thanks t...

Tiesj Benoot has sounded an alarm over what he views as an increasingly intense developmental culture in men’s road cycling, warning that the current generation of rising stars risk burning out long before they hit their prime. Speaking on the Thomas Guenter Podcast, the 31-year-old reflected on how...

The wave of anti-doping headlines in professional cycling has continued, with the UCI confirming the provisional suspension of Portuguese rider António Carvalho Ferreira. The announcement arrives fresh after high-profile cases involving Oier Lazkano and Vinicius Rangel, marking a turbulent spell for...

Eli Iserbyt’s fight with recurring iliac artery issues has taken another worrying turn — and one rider who lived the same nightmare believes the Belgian star may now be facing the hardest decision of his career. Viktor Verschaeve, who was forced to retire early after his own battle with the conditio...

UAE Team Emirates - XRG’s 2025 campaign will be remembered for dominance across every terrain — and for the arrival of Isaac del Toro as one of cycling’s biggest new GC forces. Speaking to L’Équipe, experienced teammate Tim Wellens has reflected on the Mexican talent’s rapid rise, while lifting the...

From Grand Tour dynasties to breakout brilliance, the 2025 men’s season delivered fireworks at every level. We witnessed history at the Tour de France, the emergence of new GC superstars, and sprinting and Classics campaigns that will be talked about for years to come. Nine names stood above the res...

Simon Yates has been voted CyclingUpToDate’s Signing of the Season, edging out Tom Pidcock in one of the closest polls of our End of Year Awards so far. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike recruit secured 163 votes, just ahead of Pidcock’s 157, after a season that delivered instant Grand Tour glory and re...

Veteran Eurosport commentator Javier Ares has reacted to the provisional suspension of Oier Lazkano, calling for calm and due process while expressing surprise at Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s decision to immediately cut ties with the Spaniard following biological passport irregularities. Speaking o...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe has formed a superteam capable of matching and perhaps realistically challenging UAE and Visma for victory at the Tour de France. But now all of the pieces have to fit together, and that includes several leaders who have their own personal ambitions. Primoz Roglic talks a...

The fallout from Oier Lazkano’s suspension continues to ripple through the sport, with former Quick-Step sports director Brian Holm suggesting the warning signs were visible long before the rider’s biological passport results triggered UCI action and his dismissal from the peloton. Holm, speaking to...

Tadej Pogacar may have completed his historic Tour–Europeans–Worlds treble in 2025, but former Tour de France White Jersey winner Tejay van Garderen believes the Slovenian is far from finished. In fact, the American insists cycling’s most dominant rider currently operates “without a rival” as the pe...

In the latest episode of the podcast Watts Occurring, former teammates Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe talked about the impact of technological progress in professional cycling and whether a rider like Tadej Pogacar could still dominate using equipment from a decade ago. Thomas began the conversation w...

Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado’s comeback has been dealt a fresh setback, with the former world champion still unable to pin down a return date as she continues to battle a lingering knee injury. The 25-year-old had been due to resume competition at Tabor on 23 November, but that target has now been rul...

Cycling legend Mark Cavendish retired last year after a long and successful career in which he arguably became the best sprinter ever, amassing 165 wins, 35 of which came at the Tour de France. They say there is no place like home, and Cavendish seems to agree, as he immediately returned to his home...

Bobby Julich, former American professional cyclist, reflected on what he described as another phenomenal season of racing from start to finish. In his detailed season recap he shared with Velo, Julich reviewed standout performances across four main categories: Grand Tours, classics, sprinting, and...

2025 was an unforgettable season for Filippo Conca with no doubt. His victory in the Italian National Championships, achieved with the amateur Swatt Club, surprised many and opened the door back to the WorldTour, where he is now riding for Team Jayco AlUla. The 27-year-old already made it to the Wor...

Team Bahrain - Victorious has announced that former Swiss professional cyclist Enrico Gasparotto will rejoin the team in 2026, this time stepping into the role of Sports Director. Gasparotto previously raced for the squad in 2017 and 2018 (when it was called Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team), playin...

After taking an extended break, Mathieu van der Poel is now back in full training ahead of his cyclocross season. The Dutch world champion, who wrapped up his 2025 campaign after the Mountain Bike World Championships in mid-September, has not limited himself to cycling. Recently, Van der Poel joined...

Sir Bradley Wiggins says he still views his London 2012 Olympic gold as the defining moment of his career — not Paris, not podiums in yellow, but the day he turned a childhood escape route into one of British sport’s most iconic scenes. A decade on from retirement, Britain’s first Tour de France win...

Lidl-Trek boss Luca Guercilena believes Juan Ayuso will thrive in new colours next season, insisting the Spanish climber represents both a statement signing and the right cultural fit for a maturing super-team. Speaking to Cycling News, Guercilena stressed that the decision to bring Ayuso on board —...

Wout van Aert has spent more than a decade thrilling Belgian crowds — but on Saturday, it was his son’s turn to steal a little of the spotlight. At Tim Declerq’s farewell criterium in Belgium, four-year-old Georges van Aert rolled up to the kids’ start line in Belgian colours, calmly guided into pos...

Albert Philipsen has already produced moments that make seasoned pros feel old — and he has only just completed his first season in the elite ranks. That was the verdict from fellow Danes Rasmus Wallin and Andreas Stokbro on Radio Tour – In Breakaway with Anders Mielke, after the 19-year-old capped...

Bart Wellens has voiced serious concern for Eli Iserbyt’s mental wellbeing as the Belgian cyclocross star faces yet another painful setback in his long fight to return to racing. The former world champion says Iserbyt’s situation — battling complications following four iliac artery surgeries this ye...

Isaac del Toro has been crowned CyclingUpToDate’s Breakthrough Rider of 2025, winning a remarkable 82% of the public vote in our End of Year Awards poll. The Mexican sensation’s standout campaign — headlined by a podium finish and race-leading stint at the Giro dItalia — made him the overwhelming ch...

Lidl-Trek had the budget and two winters ago they signed Jonathan Milan from Bahrain - Victorious. In the years that followed, they've turned the Italian into a proven winner with a world-class leadout and an enviable palmarès. At the Singapore Criterium, Milan explained his motivations.  "My first...

Doping is a topic that has for many years been a part of cycling and that is something that will not likely come to an end in any foreseeable future. Whilst previously, many riders were caught after their wrongdoings after the testing system evolved, the case of Oier Lazkano brings worries that some...

Former cyclocross World Champion Paul Herygers is a vocal voice in the world of cyclocross and after the opening weeks of the season, he has shared who he believes will be the main favourites for next weekends' European Championships in Middelkerke - perhaps the most important event of the first hal...

Intermarché - Wanty and Lotto are merging this winter and this has left many extra riders in the market from both teams. Surprisignly, Lotto hasn't held on to one of its best performing classics riders Arjen Livyns, and in the midst of the chaos, XDS Astana Team have taken the opportunity to sign th...

Michael Matthews has had a long partnership with Team Jayco AlUla and it is set to continue. After the team faced financial issues and had its very existence at risk, the path is now secured and uphill. With it begin the renewals the team was in need of, including its leader this Monday morning.  “M...

And just like that, the 2025 cycling season has been and gone. And what does that mean? It’s time for the assessment and review of each team’s performance throughout the year. Who improved on 2024? Who took a step back? In today’s piece, we review the Alpecin-Deceuninck men’s road cycling team in th...

Tom Pidcock was at INEOS Grenadiers and at the end of last season he made the move to Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, two lineups that were on very different sides of the spectrum when it comes to pro racing. However, in the Swiss team the Briton found the perfect environment this year and has thrived, perf...

Italian sprinter Alberto Dainese will ride for a new team in 2026. Despite remaining winless in 2025, Soudal - Quick-Step signed him to add even more firepower to the sprinters section, which is already packed with loads of talent. He is thus making the jump from the ProTour level with Tudor Pro Cyc...

On a date that carries special meaning for him, Italian rider Fabio Felline has officially announced that he is retiring from professional cycling. The 35-year-old from Turin shared the news on November 1, a day he used to celebrate his traditional Fellinata, a gathering to bid farewell to the seaso...

Eli Iserbyt has suffered a relapse of his injury after undergoing four surgeries earlier this year on the iliac artery in his left leg. The 28-year-old Pauwels Sauzen - Altez Industriebouw Cycling Team rider had hoped to make his comeback in a couple of weeks, but that plan has now been abandoned....

Marion Norbert Riberolle finished second at the Rapencross morvaLokeren on Sunday, only behind Lucinda Brand, but her thoughts after crossing the line were far from the race itself. The French-born rider, now representing Belgium, used her post-race interview to express grief following the tragic de...

Cyclocross may be on the brink of its biggest leap in decades — and in the eyes of UCI Director of Sport Peter Van Den Abeele, even cycling’s most dominant Grand Tour rider could soon return to the mud. With a major UCI rule change coming in 2027 that will allow WorldTour teams to earn points from o...

In the latest episode of their podcast The Move, Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin discussed recent speculation regarding Tadej Pogacar’s race calendar after claims made by Patrick Evenepoel, father of Remco Evenepoel. Patrick Evenepoel said a few days ago that Pogacar might skip the Tour de France...

Twenty-four hours after ruling the Koppenberg and lighting up the cyclocross world, Thibau Nys experienced the other side of the sport’s brutality — a mechanical-ruined afternoon at Rapencross Lokeren that turned into a fight for survival rather than glory. While the European champion stormed to vic...

Chris Horner has doubled down on his criticism of UAE Team Emirates - XRG’s Stage 20 collapse at the 2025 Giro d’Italia earlier this year — now fuelled further by Isaac Del Toro’s own candid comments on the communication breakdown that cost him the Maglia Rosa on the Colle delle Finestre. Reacting t...

Joris Nieuwenhuis delivered a commanding performance at Rapencross Lokeren, powering clear mid-race and never looking back to take his second victory of the season in the X2O Badkamers Trofee — while Thibau Nys endured a wildly contrasting afternoon marked by frustration, crashes and mechanical woes...

Biniam Girmay is trying to leave Intermarché-Lotto, the team that is set to be officially announced soon and with the new names to be revealed as well. The Eritrean has for the first time spoken this openly about the topic with the media at the Tour de France Singapore Criterium where he is one of t...

Wout van Aert has offered an honest early verdict on the 2026 Tour de France route, admitting the parcours may not be perfectly aligned with his strengths — while confirming that his winter racing plans remain flexible as he eases back into training following a long break. With a route heavy on pure...

Rui Costa has announced his retirement from pro cycling. The Portuguese rider has spent the last two seasons of his career with EF Education-EasyPost, and has closed down a career that began 18 years ago in the professional peloton. Behind him lays a World title in 2013, three stages at the Tour de...

Lucinda Brand’s autumn momentum shows no sign of easing. The Dutch powerhouse claimed her fourth win in just five starts this season at the Rapencross in Lokeren, breaking clear from Sara Casasola and Aniek van Alphen with two laps to go and powering away to another authoritative triumph in the X2O...

Lucinda Brand continued her superb early-season form with a commanding victory at the Rapencross Lokeren, distancing her rivals in the second half of the race and riding to her second win of the weekend in the X2O Badkamers Trofee. Belgian champion Marion Norbert Riberolle produced a storming late c...

Ben O'Connor has had a rocky first years with Team Jayco AlUla but mentally he is in a good place after many years 'abroad'. The Australian rider is starting his season early on next year, as he has already expressed clear interest in racing the national championships in early January - which could...

Primoz Roglic has won the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España on four occasions, but the Tour de France is no longer a realistic goal. In a Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe that continues to grow in quality, his role has changed, as has his calendar. But where will Primoz Roglic race in 2026, and is th...

The off-season is upon the pro peloton however a few riders have made the trip to Asia over for one of the post-season Tour de France criteriums. In Singapore, a few of the world's best were present this Sunday in an exhibition criterium, and the Tour's green jersey Jonathan Milan emerged victorious...

Primoz Roglic was signed to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe at the start of 2024 and ever since the team has brought up two other great leaders. Florian Lipowitz evolved straight within the team, whilst Remco Evenepoel was now bought from Soudal - Quick-Step. How does the veteran plan to fare in the mid...

Oier Lazkano is now involved in what is currently the most prominent doping case in cycling, albeit being a rather tricky one. The Spaniard hasn't tested positive for any specific substance, and in his first statement issued since the suspension, he defends his innocence.  "I have never used doping...

At the end of 2024 Team SD Worx - ProTime lost DemI Vollering, Niamh Fisher-Black and Marlen Reusser, who all had stellar 2025 seasons. The Swiss rider hasn't, in any way, fallen behind Vollering and has seen her very best level in 2025 where realistically only a handful of riders had a year compara...

Mark Cavendish was never not a controversial figure in the sport of cycling and in a book that hehe has released one week ago called 'Believe: Achieving the Impossible' he has discussed his time with Soudal - Quick-Step, one marked by a grandious comeback to the top of the sport, and a very rocky bu...

Remco Evenepoel is the one that got away, for INEOS Grenadiers. Over the years it's been heard time and time again that the British team attempted to buy the Belgian out of his contract with Soudal - Quick-Step, but unsuccessfully. But according to Mark Cavendish these aren't just rumours, it is a k...

For the final time in his long and successful career, Lars van der Haar faced the infamous slopes of the Koppenbergcross. On November 1, the Dutch rider from Baloise Glowi Lions finished sixth on the muddy and historic climb known as the Bult van Melden, marking the end of an era in professional cyc...

It was a farewell that could hardly have been scripted better. After a decade and a half in the professional peloton, Elia Viviani ended his career on the highest possible note: winning the world title in the elimination race at the Track World Championships in Chile. The 36-year-old Italian deliver...

After over a decade in the professional peloton, South African climber Louis Meintjes has decided to bring his career to a close. He got seven professional wins, including one stage at la Vuelta a España and the infamous 2024 Itzulia Basque Country stage, in which a massive crash forced Jonas Vingeg...

After 21 edtions, the Tour of Norway is in serious risk of disappearing from the cycling calendar, at least in 2026. Tour of Norway director Roy Hegreberg has sounded the alarm after the Norwegian government proposed abolishing the special subsidy scheme for international cycling races in its 2026 s...

Jonas Vingegaard's long-anticipated debut in Danish national colours may not have delivered the fairytale result on paper, but the significance of the moment is still resonating inside the national camp. After finally pulling on the red and white jersey at the 2025 European Championships, the two-ti...

The 2025 women’s peloton delivered a season for the ages — Grand Tours decided by seconds, a first-time French Tour champion, landmark Classics victories, and rising stars transforming into genuine headliners. From dominant sprinting to all-terrain mastery and epoch-making GC performances, these six...

Thibau Nys is building something special on the Koppenberg. On the climb where his father Sven forged legend-status, the 22-year-old delivered another commanding display to take his second Koppenbergcross title — and in doing so underline that the famous surname is no burden. It is a standard he int...

Tadej Pogacar has already rewritten cycling’s modern record book. Now, the UAE has frozen one of his most iconic gestures in time — unveiling a golden statue that places the sport’s dominant force at the heart of the nation that has adopted him as its sporting symbol. Rather than depicting a sprint,...

Thibau Nys returned to cyclocross in emphatic fashion on the cobbles of the Koppenberg, storming to a dominant victory in his first race of the season to claim his second career win on this legendary climb. The European champion out-powered Cameron Mason after an intense early battle, eventually rid...

Superteams rose. Dynasties wobbled. New forces broke through. If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that cycling’s balance of power continues to shift — and the battle to be the best team in the world has never felt fiercer. Grand Tour dominance, Monument brilliance, relentless week-long consistency, and...

A frightening end to October has forced rising British star Zoe Backstedt to hit pause on her cyclocross campaign before it even begins, after a crash in training left her with two small fractures in her hand and wrist. The 21-year-old used Instagram to reveal the incident — and to stress that her h...

Lucinda Brand conquered the Koppenberg at long last, claiming her first ever victory on the iconic climb after taming treacherous mud, cobbles and a spirited challenge from French sensation Célia Gery. The Baloise Trek leader finally cracked the 19-year-old in the closing laps to secure a hard-earne...

After becoming the great star of the Movistar Team, Iván Romeo dreams of a 2026 season that surpasses a magical 2025. The young cyclist from Valladolid was the best rider of the team throughout the season, winning victories such as the Dauphiné and the Spanish Championship. He has also discussed the...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is one of the top teams in the peloton and alongside the sports director role comes a lot of responsibility and pressure. Jesper Morkov has thrived in this role this year guiding the team to both its Grand Tour wins despite being around the same age as several of the team's...

Tom Pidcock is unlikely to do cyclocross during the winter and after a long and very successful season on the road, the Briton is not yet on full holiday mode into the winter. He is currently in South Africa but is racing the week-long Nedbank Gravel Burn, mostly on easy mode, but on stage 5 he took...

Oier Lazkano was signed by Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe and Danish pundit Michael Rasmussen argues that the German team knew about Lazkano's suspicious biological passport values. This is because when he was signed, certainly there was the sharing of medical files, which have either not been analyzed...

The suspension of Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe's Oier Lazkano has been one of the main stories this year in the world of cycling and little was known about the situation of the Spanish rider. However more and more begins to come out and reveals a long police investigation that culminated in a house v...

A member of the Axeon under-23 during its golden years, Soudal - Quick-Step and INEOS Grenadiers, few could've imagined that Jhonatan Narváez' level could increase further at this point in his career. However what happened is that with his new contract at UAE Team Emirates - XRG, the South American...

Cyclocross can get serious at times, but not when Influencer Average Rob is around! The famous youtuber's Turbo Cross is back for yet another edition in 2025, but in a new format. This fun cyclocross race will take place on December 22nd, right at the start of the Christmas holidays. This time, Aver...

Ruben Van Gucht, one of the leading cyclocross commentators for Sporza, has been sentenced to a nine-month driving ban and a fine of 4,800 euros by the Dendermonde police court. This adds to Van Gucht's growing number of oversteps after a massive controversy of last year regarding his comments about...

The cyclocross peloton is trembling as one of the sport's biggest stars is ready to make a 2025/26 debut at the Koppenberg this weekend. So far, it's been all fun and games, but with the presence of European champion Thibau Nys, the competition will grow in seriousness. And the 23-year-old who also...

Recently Remco Evenepoel travelled to the United States to put on a few days of research work for Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe to use regarding everything the team has directed to the time trials. However, Evenepoel had spent a lot of time in the Specialized headquarters previously with Soudal - Quic...

UCI points are closely tracked by teams, specially as this year there were promotions and relegations based off a difference of just a few points. When it comes to riders there is also always interest, although Tadej Pogacar takes the top of the charts without any challenger... But what if the UCI r...

Team time trials were in the past decade underutilized in the top of the cycling world and what once used to be a tradition in Grand Tours became less and less common. However over the past few years, the discipline seems to be having a resurgence, so much so that in 2026, the UCI calendar will feat...

In traditional Unibet Rose Rockets style, today's signing announcement came in form of an interesting video. After a teaser, in which the French team dropped hints about the upcoming transfer, it has been confirmed: Rory Townsend, Irish national champion, is making the move over to add even more fir...

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has made the most successful return to road cycling that she could've hoped for this year, winning Paris-Roubaix Femmes and Tour de France Femmes. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider was asked about several topics but has talked about her Tour de France success with a lot of d...

Oliver Naesen is a veteran of the peloton but a man that remains firm in the World Tour due to his vast experience as a classics rider and road captain. The Belgian rider is part of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale and is seeing first-hand how much different the sport is becoming and the amount of focus t...

It can't be said that the UCI's announcement of the suspension of Oier Lazkano came as a major surprise, however it has now led to major consequences to all involved. The Spaniard has been released by Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe who has had to issue a statement over their riders; whilst Movistar has...

Mark Cavendish is a rider that has spent multiple generations in the peloton and has become one of cycling's most successful riders ever, now holding the Tour de France stage win record. In a recent interview he was asked about doping quite a lot, as the Manx Missile is a rider that has bridged acro...

Tadej Pogacar made his debut with UAE Team Emirates - XRG back in 2019 at the Tour Down Under, and seven years later he may make a return. The World Champion has only raced in Australian back in that week in 2019 and also at the 2022 World Championships, but without success. May he want to change th...

"Having lots of good riders is a privilege, not a problem" applies to several teams. Will it apply to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe? In 2026 the German team will have a sea of sharks, but without a Tadej Pogacar or Jonas Vingegaard, cycling's new super team will have to be careful for them not to cann...

The peloton approaches November and whilst many are taking their much-deserved holidays or beginning their preparations towards the 2026 season, some riders - including a few top figures - are still left scrambling for contracts, either to remain in the World Tour or outright save their career. We t...

The 2025 season has come to an end but at this point in time, almost 200 riders from the World Tour and Pro-Team level remain without a contract for next season. Many will find a new home or renew with their current team, but with the end of October also come worrying or interesting questions - depe...

Nils Eekhoff won't remember 2025 for being a great season, but it's also a year from which the 27-year-old can draw a lot of optimism into the future. The Picnic PostNL rider's season had many ups and downs, from his biggest victory to the day, through multiple injuries, to a strong final push at th...

The Elimination race at 2025 Track World Championships in Santiago, Chile was the last dance of Elia Viviani. And it was a masterpiece. The Italian made no mistake and remained in control of the action, beating New Zealand's Campbell Stewart and Dutchman Yoeri Havik. Thus, the legend of Italian cycl...

For more than one decade, Matt White played a pivotal role in the story of Jayco AlUla. That was until early May of this year when his job at the team was terminated. Although a replacement for his leading role has not been publicly communicated by the Australian team yet, the 51-year-old has alread...

Neither men's WorldTour team Jayco AlUla nor the Australian team's women's team Liv AlUla Jayco were present at the initial list of applicants for WorldTour licences for the 2026 season published by UCI some week ago. The reported reason were supposedly missing bank guarantees at the time of first d...

The 2025 season is over and history has been made. UAE Team Emirates - XRG has won 97 races this year, surpassing all the previous established records and setting a new benchmark due to the many wins of Tadej Pogacar, Isaac del Toro, João Almeida, Juan Ayuso, etc. Now we take a look at all World Tou...

Isaac Del Toro has opened up about the day he lost the Giro d’Italia — and the confusion that surrounded the defining moment of his debut at the Italian Grand Tour. Speaking to GCN en Español, the 21-year-old Mexican admitted his frustration at how team radio communication unravelled on the Colle de...

The news that had been feared for months have today been confirmed. Oier Lazkano, rider for Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, has been officially suspended by the UCI after having shown biological passport abnormalities from 2022 to 2024.  "The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that Spanish r...

The Tour Colombia is a race that has delivered a lot in the past decade but over the past few years it hasn't been ran. In 2026 it was set to make a return, and was officially added to the UCI calendar. However the good news were short-lived, and it is now confirmed that the organizers lack the fund...

Arkéa - B&B Hotels were set for relegation this winter out of the World Tour, but the French team's end is only the symptom of a bigger illness in the peloton. Financially speaking, a few teams have evolved significantly whilst behind, those who don't get left behind significantly and can no longer...

Sam Bennett was at the top of the sprinter world in the early 2020's, entering the decade with a victory in the Tour de France's points classification and a couple of golden years with Soudal - Quick-Step. Ever since, things haven't been as bright for the Irishman who is on his way out of the World...

The curtain may have fallen on the 2025 cycling season, but some of the sport’s biggest names aren’t quite ready to put their bikes away. On Sunday, 23 November, the streets of the Principality will once again host BeKING Monaco, an off-season criterium that attracts world champions, Tour winners, a...

In a season packed with drama, dominance, and defiance, a handful of riders still managed to stand out with performances that demanded replays. From long-range solo wins to perfectly timed strikes in the sport’s biggest races, these were the rides that defined 2025 – the ones that made you sit forwa...

Remco Evenepoel isn’t wasting a single moment before the 2026 cycling season begins. While most riders are already on holiday, the Belgian star has spent the past week fine-tuning every aerodynamic detail of his setup — in true Formula 1 style. The 25-year-old travelled to California for extensive t...

The race to secure the next Remco Evenepoel or Tadej Pogacar is accelerating — and senior figures from inside the World Tour are sounding the alarm over the pressures now placed on teenagers poised to become the future of the sport. Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s Head of Performance, Robbert de Groot,...

Andrea Raccagni Noviero has ended his first WorldTour season by setting his sights on the two most sacred dates on the Italian calendar. After a year that stretched from Australia to China and delivered real signs of progression, the 21-year-old believes the next step is obvious: aim for Milano–Sanr...

Alexander Krieger took a rather unorthodox path to becoming a professional. For the German, it's taken 10 season of racing at the Continental level before making a debut on the grand stage with Alpecin-Deceuninck at the age of 28. Six seasons down the road, Krieger had accomplished everything he dre...

After 14 seasons at the heart of one of cycling’s most dominant dynasties, Salvatore Puccio has called time on his career — and admits he’s leaving behind a sport that no longer resembles the one he joined. Speaking to TuttoBiciWeb, the long-serving INEOS Grenadiers / Team Sky rider reflected on how...

Thibau Nys has a bright future ahead of him on road, however the Belgian talent's biggest passion is cyclocross and that's why we can look forward to seeing the Lidl-Trek talent in action already this Saturday at the Koppenbergcross. Due to the late start of the winter (compared to his rivals), the...

Egan Bernal has admitted to a mix of admiration and frustration when racing against Tadej Pogacar — the man who has come to define his generation. Speaking to Colombian TV show Despierta Win, the 2019 Tour de France winner said that Pogacar’s dominance often leaves rivals feeling powerless. “He’s on...

A fresh doping scandal has surfaced in cycling as October draws to a close — a stark reminder that, despite years of reform, the sport still cannot completely shake off its darker past. The shadow of the Lance Armstrong era has long since lifted, yet the fight for credibility continues. The latest r...

For a decade, Jakub Mareczko was one of the most enigmatic sprinters at the professional level. Partly due to his impressive turn of speed. But mostly thanks to his palmares with a total number of professional victories that would humble many of his sprinter colleagues. 50. If you're looking for Gra...

The small town of Buja, located in the northeast of Italy, very close to the frontier with Slovenia, became the center of emotion and nostalgia as Alessandro De Marchi officially said goodbye to professional cycling. “Now I’ll tell you something you might not expect,” De Marchi said to bici.pro when...

Julien Vermote is currently without a contract into the 2026 season and his task is being made more difficult due to the teams' pursuit of young riders and the 'next Evenepoel or Pogacar'. The Belgian in the meantime, with 15 seasons of racing at the top level and the motivation, is struggling to fi...

Doping left a permanent mark on cycling and even though in recent years there haven't been more than individual cases at the highest level, it's still a topic that hits headlines from time to time. But back when Luke Rowe made a professional debut in early 2010s, the biggest doping scandals of the g...

As one of the main preparation races for the Tour of Flanders, E3 Saxo Classics holds a special place in the Flemish Classics calendar. The last two editions were won by Mathieu van der Poel, but the 2026 race promises to be a bit different from recent years. The reason for a change has been explain...

The cyclocross season has barely started yet, but the 2025 European Championships are already around the corner and a topic of the day for all the specialists. Belgium as a men's cyclocross powerhouse are the ones that are expected to dictate the pace and not a single thing about that changes in the...

Greg Van Avermaet isn't competing on road since 2023, but the 2016 Olympic champion remains in a top shape, as is evident from his latest Strava activity. However the effort alone would not be all that interesting, if during the run, he didn't run across a familiar face - Mathieu van der Poel. Unlik...

The debate began the moment Christian Prudhomme left the stage in Paris. Too few time-trial kilometres, too much backloading, too many climbs packed into the final weekend — but as The Gruppetto host Rob Hatch put it bluntly during TNT Sports’ route-reveal special, “there isn’t a route in the world...

A transfer twist appears to be brewing in the WorldTour, with multiple reports in the Dutch media — including WielerFlits — claiming that Louis Barré is poised to join Team Visma | Lease a Bike for 2026. The 25-year-old Frenchman has reportedly been released from his Intermarché-Wanty contract a yea...

After a relatively quiet end to the 2025 season, Movistar Team has announced a sweeping internal restructuring aimed at modernising the organisation and strengthening its fight to remain in the World Tour beyond 2026. The Spanish outfit confirmed the creation of a new development framework under th...

Sir Bradley Wiggins has lifted the lid on what he describes as a deeply troubling culture inside British Cycling during his time with the national programme, claiming he overheard racist, sexist and homophobic language from senior figures within the organisation. The five-time Olympic champion, who...

If 2025 was the year of the breakthrough, it was also a year when a few high-profile moves changed the shape of the peloton entirely. Some transfers delivered instant Grand Tour glory, others revitalised careers, and a few quietly proved to be the glue that kept whole projects together. We’ve shortl...

After a few years of quality riding in the Belgian circuit, Tom Paquot managed to find his way into the World Tour in 2023 with Intermarché - Wanty. He was promised a contract back in May with the team but it never came, turned down conversations with other teams and now is fighting to find a contra...

How many teams have the pleasure of having two potential green jersey winners at the Tour de France? It's not often a choice any team has to make, but Lidl-Trek into 2026 has to choose one of its sprinters over the other to pursuit the fast men's top objective: Mads Pedersen and Jonathan Milan.  In...

The cycling world was shocked to learn about the extent of Filippo Baroncini after his crash at this year's Tour de Pologne, and the UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider was placed in an induced coma for two weeks. A lot could've happened, but was is close to the best case scenario is coming to reality as...

Lars van der Haar is racing his final cyclocross winter as a professional rider. At age 34, the Dutch veteran has decided to hang up the wheels in February and ride these last few months of his career all-out. In modern cyclocross, he has without a doubt stood out as one of the world's best.  "It’s...

Team Jayco AlUla had Simon Yates in their ranks from the very start of his career in 2014 all the way into 2024. It was a decade of a successful partnership that saw the Bury-native win the Vuelta a España, stages in all Grand Tours and almost three dozen triumphs including plenty World Tour ones. H...

When Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish sat side-by-side on BBC Radio 2 with Dermot O’Leary, it felt like more than just a reunion of two old teammates — it was the rekindling of a bond forged across some of British cycling’s most golden, and most turbulent, years. For Wiggins, the moment was one of...

Still with no luck, the Swiss cycling is looking for a successor of Fabian Cancellara's cycling throne. While Stefan Küng came close to repeat his heroic feats, on his best days he still fell short of making the final step. Thus the baton is slowly being passed down to Mauro Schmid. The Jayco AlUla...

Magnus Cort Nielsen had a strong start into the 2025 season, dominating the O Gran Camino with four stage victories. Later, he also finished 6th at Strade Bianche and Milano-Sanremo to close spring with a 2nd spot at Eschborn-Frankfurt. But instead of becoming a springboard into a strong second half...

Former Belgian professional cyclist Frans Melckenbeeck passed away on 28 October 2025. He would have celebrated his 85th birthday on 15 November 2025. Born in Lede, East Flanders, Belgium (15 November 1940), his career made him one of the notable riders of the 1960s peloton. Melckenbeeck’s most cele...

The list of teams that applied for men's WorldTour license for the 2026 season has been published by UCI already some time ago, but one striking name has been missing among the initial 20 interested parties. Usually registered under the GreenEdge license, Jayco AlUla, just like the women's alternati...

Marlen Reusser says she is still feeling the physical and emotional toll of her gruelling World Championship triumph in Kigali, describing the time trial that earned her gold as an effort that “cost me seven lives.” The Swiss powerhouse enjoyed the finest season of her career in 2025, winning the To...

The men’s elite cyclocross season is about to take a sharp turn with the return of European champion Thibau Nys, who will line up this weekend on the Koppenberg, one of the most iconic and brutal courses in the sport. Both Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert are still yet to make their seasonal d...

Dylan Groenewegen says he’s “ready” to make a return to the Tour de France as he prepares for a new chapter with the Unibet ROSE Rockets in 2026 — and hopes the team’s growing strength, bolstered by the signing of veteran Wout Poels, will earn them a place on cycling’s biggest stage. Speaking to In...

Former Brazilian national champion Vinicius Rangel Costa has been handed a 20-month suspension by the UCI for whereabouts failures, ruling him out of competition until April 2027. The UCI confirmed on Tuesday that the 24-year-old has been sanctioned for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation after recording...

After weeks of speculation about tension inside Lidl-Trek’s newly-assembled GC dream team, sports director Kim Andersen has confirmed that Juan Ayuso and Mattias Skjelmose have now cleared the air following the announcement of the Spaniard’s high-profile transfer from UAE Team Emirates - XRG. Speaki...

Florian Lipowitz has confirmed that his 2026 season plans are already taking shape – and that the Giro d’Italia will not be part of them. Instead, the German revelation of 2025 has set his sights firmly on a return to the Tour de France, where he hopes to once again lead Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe...

After several weeks away from competition, Wout van Aert looks to be rediscovering his rhythm. The Visma | Lease a Bike star uploaded a 96.9 kilometre ride to Strava on Monday, captioned tongue-in-cheek: “Annexatie van de Vlaanders completed.” The route traced a wide loop through the Belgian country...

The recently unveiled 2026 Tour de France route has sparked debate across the cycling world, but few opinions carry as much weight as those of 2011 Tour winner Cadel Evans and Australian compatriot Stuart O’Grady. Both men believe the latest edition will be an unforgiving race that could create hug...

Thor Hushovd has never been one for modest targets. Days after Uno-X Mobility confirmed their long-awaited WorldTour promotion, the team’s general manager is already sketching out what comes next — and the ambitions are every bit as daring as the journey that got them here. The promotion, sealed by...

Dutch ex-pro turned analyst Thijs Zonneveld has never been one to hold back — and his verdict on the newly revealed 2026 Tour de France route is as sharp as ever. The 45-year-old has accused organisers of “playing it safe” and serving up a mountain week that “makes no sense”, describing one Alpine s...

The 2025 WorldTour season has been one of the most exhilarating in recent memory — a year defined by the emergence of an entire new wave of talent. From Grand Tour podiums to dominant sprints and stunning one-day heroics, these six names have all reshaped the sport’s future in their own way. We’ve s...

The past 12 months have seen a complete U-turn in Tom Pidcock's career, with a contract termination at INEOS Grenadiers leading him to go towards the small-level Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team in 2026, where he has found his best level and turned the Swiss team into another World Tour-level outfit. The Brit...

Alpecin-Deceuninck are a full-on classics and sprint team and they may be on the verge of collecting one of the best value riders on the market for their specific goals. Arkéa - B&B Hotels is coming to an end and there is one rider on the market who specializes in support of top classics riders and...

Israel - Premier Tech are no more, after the pressure from fans, race organizers, team sponsors and riders themselves to remove the state sponsorship and its owner Sylvan Adams from the team. It seemed to be the end of story for the Middle Eastern nation in the sport for the time being, however it m...

Cycling is a sport where unfortunately tragedy happens on a frequent basis, however frequently it is because of training or racing crashes. But outside of competition, the athletes are also regular humans and disaster can happen at any time. For Uno-X Mobility's Simon Dalby, this almost happened rec...

Stephane Heulot was the general manager behind the Lotto team for three years but that came to an end this summer, and the Frenchman admits quite a lot of dissatisfaction towards how business is conducted currently in pro cycling, with less and less human values, contract breakings and lack of long-...

The sport we know and love today is all about endurance and enduring spirit, but with the bonus of scientific performance analysis and high-tech products. But that wasn’t always the case. Cycling didn’t arrive as a fully formed sport; it took shape as technology, culture, and ambition converged. Pin...

Money means a lot in the world of cycling, and looking at UAE Team Emirates - XRG it is easy to see this develop as the team is able to sign multiple of the world's most successful riders and at the same time many of the brightest talents. But almost no teams are able to do this, and most teams only...

Thirteen years after his historic Tour de France victory, Bradley Wiggins has opened up about the internal tensions that marked his time at Team Sky. In his new book The Chain, the 2012 Tour winner details how a single moment of insubordination from Froome nearly caused him to quit the race. The con...

Tobias Johannessen was one of the unexpected stars of the 2025 Tour de France. Although the 26-year-old Norwegian had previously shown glimpses of his potential here and there, his ability to perform over the course of three weeks was a pleasant discovery this summer. Partly thanks to the massive 52...

Despite a very long list of victories in 2025, the season of Lorena Wiebes doesn't end on a high as she would've hoped for. The new world champion in Omnium and Scratch did not complete her three-peat in Madison for which she partnered up Lisa van Belle. In fact, the Dutch favourites crashed during...

The Lotto-Intermarché merger is now inevitably going to take place. But rather than "50-50 merger" with the best of both teams coming on-board the new project, we see the most promising riders of Intermarché - Wanty setting out on new adventures. And the case is not any different for Hugo Page. The...

Lidl-Trek rider Andrea Bagioli has announced that he and his partner Letizia are expecting their first child — a piece of news that quickly drew a flood of affection from across the peloton. The 26-year-old Italian shared the update on Instagram with a photo of the couple’s small dog Maya beside a b...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s new team manager Zak Dempster has opened up on the scale of the challenge facing him in 2026: managing a roster so deep in Grand Tour potential that internal competition could become as fierce as the battles against Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. Speaking in an int...

The newly unveiled 2026 Tour de France route has triggered frustration and disbelief among Belgian cycling figures, who believe organisers have missed a rare opportunity to test Tadej Pogacar with a more balanced parcours. While the race begins with a 19.7km team time trial in Barcelona, the individ...

For Joxean Matxin, there’s no secret to UAE Team Emirates - XRG’s historic 2025 campaign — there’s just Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian once again stood at the heart of everything as the team rewrote the record books with 95 victories, the highest tally ever achieved by a professional squad. “Working w...

Paul Seixas may already be the name on every French fan’s lips, but the teenager himself is in no hurry to live up to the weight of national expectation and test himself against the best in the world at the Tour de France.  After a sensational first full season in the WorldTour, the 19-year-old says...

As debate continues over whether the newly unveiled 2026 Tour de France route has once again been built to favour Tadej Pogacar, one notable name in French cycling has pushed back on suggestions that Christian Prudhomme’s team should be actively trying to stop the Slovenian. Speaking on Les Grandes...

Elia Viviani’s farewell to cycling was pure theatre — one final surge, one last rainbow jersey, and a golden goodbye worthy of his glittering career. In Santiago, the 36-year-old Italian didn’t just win the men’s elimination race at the Track World Championships; he sealed a storybook ending that fe...

Lidl-Trek have hosted their first team camp into 2026 already, one of the few World Tour teams to already put in the work over a month before its first training camp, and during it an important business deal has been concluded: Lidl has taken a majority share of the team's stake, although everything...

The 2025 road season has been finished and a few riders have stood out this year in terms of victories. There have been a few notable faces that have stood out, specially towards the end of the year bringing in victories left and right. Most would believe Tadej Pogacar is the one who has raised his...

Last year the Giro d'Italia's presentation was delayed until late December, hampering the decision making of the World Tour's leaders to make the decision to which Grand Tour they would be riding. There's no sign of the delay repeating itself this year and within the next month we should learn about...

Unibet Tietema Rockets are one of the most inovative projects in pro cycling over the past few years and by the year the French team is growing its level. In 2026 it's already having Dylan Groenewegen on board as a strong new leader and the Tour de France is becoming a more realistic dream. But Bas...

The transfer of 2024-2025? Perhaps, but there is no denying that Tom Pidcock's departure from INEOS Grenadiers was one of the strongest stories of last winter, and one of the riskiest too. With a strong millionaire contract, a British team backing him up and a team stacked with stars, it came as a s...

The route of the Tour de France 2026 was unveiled a few days ago in Paris, and as always, it has sparked mixed reactions among riders and fans.  One of the men that attended the presentation was Sandy Dujardin. The TotalEnergies rider shared his excitement and ambitions for the coming season in an i...

Former Paris-Roubaix champion Sonny Colbrelli is set to leave his position as sports director at Bahrain - Victorious after a little more than three years in the role. Colbrelli, who had raced with Bahrain - Victorious from 2017 until his premature retirement in 2022, joined the team’s management sh...

Michael Vanthourenhout turned a shaky beginning into a spectacular victory at the Druivencross Overijse on Sunday, confirming his excellent start of the season. The Pauwels Sauzen - Altez Industriebouw Cycling Team rider endured a difficult first lap, finding himself only in 18th position. Graduall...

Tadej Pogacar is certain to race the 2026 Tour de France and skip the Vuelta a España, however Remco Evenepoel's father Patrick has seemingly opened the door for a different scenario. He argues the Slovenian is considering skipping the Grand Boucle and racing the Giro-Vuelta double instead.  “When I...

Frederik Wandahl’s 2025 season has come to another premature end. The 24-year-old Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe rider has endured a year defined by misfortune, suffering two major crashes in just six months — the latest coming at the Tour of Guangxi, where he sustained a broken jaw and several other i...

As the cyclocross season hits full stride, the question echoing across the sport is simple: when will Mathieu van der Poel return to the mud? The reigning world champion has yet to pin on a number this winter, but according to former rider and Derailleur analyst Bart Aernouts, the answer rests entir...

For years, Urska Zigart has been known to the wider public as the partner of cycling’s modern-day phenomenon, Tadej Pogacar. But in 2025, the 28-year-old Slovenian made sure the conversation changed — and that her own results began to speak just as loudly. After several years of steady progress, Zig...

Michael Vanthourenhout produced a masterclass in patience and precision to win the men’s Superprestige Overijse, overhauling long-time leader Pim Ronhaar on the final lap to take his second major victory of the season. The Belgian champion timed his effort perfectly on the brutal Druivencross circui...

Sara Casasola delivered the performance – and the result – of her cyclocross career in Overijse, taking full advantage of a late crash by Lucinda Brand to claim her maiden Superprestige victory. The 25-year-old Italian became the first from her country ever to win the historic Druivencross, powering...

Sara Casasola claimed arguably the biggest victory of her cyclocross career with a composed and opportunistic ride at Superprestige Overijse, becoming the first Italian rider ever to win the prestigious “Druivencross”. The 25-year-old pounced in the final lap after Lucinda Brand crashed while leadin...

French rider Anthony Turgis has voiced unease at what he calls cycling’s “obsession with elevation gain”, arguing that the increasingly mountainous nature of the Tour de France risks alienating classics specialists and all-rounders. Speaking to Cyclism’Actu following the official route reveal for th...

The 2026 Tour de France route presentation in Paris has reignited one of Danish cycling’s biggest questions — will Mads Pedersen finally return to the world’s biggest race, or will Lidl-Trek once again leave their former world champion at home? According to TV2’s cycling experts, the newly unveiled...

After a short off-season spent recharging in the United States, Mathieu van der Poel is back in training and preparing for his latest assault on the cyclocross calendar. According to team boss Christoph Roodhooft, the world champion’s return to the mud is now only a matter of weeks away – with an of...

I’ve gone back and forth on this more times than I care to admit. The 2025/26 cyclocross season is about to light up, and with it comes the familiar question: is it fair, never mind sporting, for Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert to parachute into a handful of winter races, maul the field, and...

As the 2026 Tour de France route was unveiled, one voice in Danish cycling was quick to share his verdict – and his warning. Brian Holm believes Team Visma | Lease a Bike must throw their full support behind Jonas Vingegaard next summer, instead of splitting leadership duties with Wout van Aert. The...

Yves Lampaert has published a new book, Forza Lampaert, co-written with journalist Wouter Deboot. The work recounts not only the many achievements of the 34-year-old, but also the dramatic evolution of professional cycling over the past decade. One story that captures that change involves former te...

For six years, Alessandro Covi was one of those quiet constants within the ever-expanding empire of UAE Team Emirates - XRG — a rider whose name rarely stole headlines but whose fingerprints were all over the team’s most dominant era. Now, as the 27-year-old Italian closes one chapter and opens ano...

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale are having new sponsors and a brand new budget into 2026 that saw them sign lots of quality riders - besides having Paul Seixas in development with unknown limits. But for next year already the team will be counting on Olav Kooij as its new head sprinter, with a brand new...

An ambitious idea but one that has taken many twists and turns and remains very difficult to this day, as we are close to entering November. The Lotto-Intermarché - Wanty merger has been a big topic of dicussion for months but details about the new project are not fully clear, within team management...

Being a pro cyclist is an incredibly difficult job, and a complete lifestyle. However it feels like more and more in modern times riders are forced to take up the ultra-professional habits from a very young age, and a few in the peloton believe this will lead to widespread early retirements. Tosh va...

Cycling is a sport where comparisons are born left and right, and with Tadej Pogacar setting an historical precedent for a rider of his age, he is the one that most riders are connected to. But many do not want the pressure that comes with connecting the names, even if it is a compatriot. That is th...

Isaac del Toro didn't miss a beat and took his chrono-route double at the Mexican national championships. A native of Ensenada, where the race was held, the UAE rider took his 18th victory of 2025 (although these last two will officially count towards the 2026 UCI calendar). The race had no mystery....

The Grand Depart of the 2026 Vuelta a Espana was officially presented in Monaco on Thursday — and race director Javier Guillen used the opportunity to send a very public invitation to Tadej Pogacar, who just so happens to live in the Principality. Next year’s race will open on 22 August 2026 with a...

The route for the 2026 Tour de France, unveiled a few days ago, has sparked mixed reactions among riders and fans. While most of the attention naturally turned to the mountain stages where Tadej Pogacar will pursue a record-tying fifth title, the fast men were left to assess whether the new design t...

Ben Healy has had an excellent 2025 season, winning a stage at the Tour de France and finishing in the podium in two other stages, besides of securing the 9th spot in the final GC and even wearing the yellow jersey one day. The culmination came at the World Championships, where Healy took bronze beh...

Soudal Quick-Step CEO Jurgen Foré has warned that the 2026 Tour de France will not be one for pure sprinters, after the route was unveiled a few days ago. Speaking to Het Laatste Nieuws, he described the upcoming edition as one of the most demanding in years. "It will be a Tour for the strong sprin...

For Filippo Conca, the 2025 season was one he will never forget. His victory in the Italian National Championships, achieved with the amateur Swatt Club, surprised many and opened the door back to the WorldTour, where he is now riding for Team Jayco AlUla. The 27-year-old already made it to the Worl...

As the dust settles on the 2026 Tour de France route presentation, former pro Jens Voigt believes that Florian Lipowitz could be the key figure in Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s prospective Tour hierarchy next summer – even ranking his fellow German ahead of Primoz Roglic and soon-to-arrive Remco Eve...

Just days after the unveiling of the 2026 Tour de France route, the organisers of the Vuelta a Espana have officially confirmed that next year’s edition will begin in Monaco, marking yet another foreign start for Spain’s Grand Tour. The 81st edition of the race will open with a 9.6km individual time...

Jakob Omrzel says he’s not interested in being called “the next Pogacar”. But he’s absolutely interested in living like Pogacar. The 19-year-old Slovenian, who will step up to Bahrain - Victorious’ WorldTour squad in 2026 after a breakout 2025 campaign, told Siol that the world’s best rider is the r...

Fem van Empel reached another milestone in her extraordinary rise through cyclocross, claiming her 50th career victory with a composed yet crushing performance at Exact Cross Heerde. The world champion extended her perfect early-season run with another solo triumph, mastering the sodden Heerderstran...

Joris Nieuwenhuis claimed his first win of the 2025–26 cyclocross season with a perfectly timed chase at the Exact Cross Heerde. After spending much of the race pursuing long-time leader Pim Ronhaar, the Ridley Racing Team rider made his move in the closing lap, powering past his compatriot to secur...

The 2026 Tour de France now has an official route, Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel shared their analysis in his podcast The Move on what the race, the mountains and the favorites will be like. They especially focused on Tadej Pogacar and his mental challenge to take on the victory in his fifth TD...

With the 2025 season over, preparations for 2026 are already underway. The cycling market continues to make major moves for the future. At UAE Team Emirates - XRG, in addition to focusing on the present, they are always thinking about the long term. For this reason, the Emirati team has announced th...

Ned Boulting is one of the most iconic voices of the Tour de France and also one of the most honest, and upon seeing the route reveal, he was not happy with it. According to the British pundit the route lacks the time trialing and the novelty whilst featuring terrain that is already well known and i...

Isaac del Toro has long been tipped as one of cycling’s next great all-rounders — but after a 2025 season featuring 16 victories, a Giro d’Italia podium, and a top-three finish in the UCI world rankings, even seasoned observers are beginning to run out of superlatives. According to TV 2 Sport’s cycl...

World champion Fem van Empel claimed another commanding victory on Dutch soil, powering clear in the final lap to win the Exact Cross Heerde ahead of Aniek van Alphen and Leonie Bentveld. The Visma | Lease a Bike rider continues her strong early-season form with another clinical display in the sand...

As we reach the end of October and most riders enter the off-season, a few riders in the World Tour are still looking to prolong their career. Quality riders some of them, it is a surprising fact. That is the case with Great Britain's James Shaw who isn't having his contract with EF Education-EasyPo...

Demi Vollering is one of the most talented riders in the female peloton and also a vocal one, but she has found that over the years her words are often taken in the wrong way and she is often target of criticism - which she feels she does not deserve.  "The things I was bombarded with after that Wor...

UAE Team Emirates - XRG had two available spots in their roster for the 2026 season and for the past week it had been heavily rumoured that one of them had been filled by French puncheur Benoît Cosnefroy. The Emirati team has officialized the signing today, one of the most unlikely of this transfer...

Tom Dumoulin was one of the best and most popular riders in the 2010's and faced off against some of the mythical figures in modern cycling, but did not really have head-to-heads with Tadej Pogacar with both at their prime. Perhaps that was best for the Dutchman who believes he may be watching the g...

Jonas Vingegaard is one of the most unique riders in the peloton and also one of the most talented, but he hasn't been able to translate that quality into the one-day races. In a recent interview he discusses that, Tadej Pogacar's presence, the capacity to do two Grand Tours a year and how long he m...

The 2025 road season has officially ended and the riders seeking to get new contracts no longer have a chance to show their worth - on the road that is, as other disciplines continue to provide opportunities. At this point in time a few teams work to secure their current riders into 2026, however a...

Lenny Martinez already tried his hand at the Tour de France twice, but without a real success. However, the gem of French cycling already prepares for another attempt at the Grande Boucle with parcours that should suit the lightweight climber. In particular the final two mountain days on Alpe d'Huez...

These days, Jonas Abrahamsen is one of the main stars of the newly WorldTour team Uno-X Mobility. The charismatic Norwegian gained a lot of attention through his fearless attacks at Tour de France and performances in Classics, but his story to be one of the better cyclists in professional peloton wa...

The French cycling fans will have multiple reasons to look forward to the 2026 Tour de France. One of them is the return of scenic Alpe d'Huez. Another the promise of a tight-knit GC battle until the final days. But most importantly, the hopes of once again having a serious GC contender with Paul Se...

The 2026 season continues to take shape from the cycling market. For UAE Team Emirates - XRG, the pressure will be on and expectations will be sky high. After breaking the all-time record for victories in a single year, the Emirati squad will have to give its all at the start of the new triennium. B...

The Vuelta a España 2025 was almost completely ruined by the citizen protests against the participation of the Israel - Premier Tech team. Many stages were affected by the demonstrations, and some of them were cancelled, such as the final in Madrid. Therefore, there is a certain degree of concern ab...

Enric Mas has opened the door to a possible bombshell in 2026 — revealing that he could skip the Tour de France to finally make his long-awaited debut at the Giro d’Italia. After a frustrating 2025 season cut short by a knee injury sustained at the Tour, the Movistar Team leader didn’t race again fo...

Former Tour de France stage winner Jan Bakelants has questioned whether the 2026 route revealed in Paris this week truly serves the interests of cycling as a spectacle — or whether it has once again been sculpted to suit the world’s dominant rider, Tadej Pogacar. In his analysis for HLN, the Belgian...

FDJ - Suez have made no secret of their ambition — winning the Tour de France Femmes remains the ultimate goal. But after being thwarted by an untouchable Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in 2025, Stephen Delcourt’s team are determined to return stronger than ever next summer. Speaking to DirectVelo at the of...

As Michael Woods bows out from professional cycling, the 39-year-old Canadian hasn’t shied away from stirring one of the sport’s longest-running debates — the comparison between Tadej Pogacar and Eddy Merckx. Speaking to Cycling Weekly, the Israel - Premier Tech rider argued that the Slovenian world...

Former Grand Tour winner turned YouTube analyst Chris Horner has weighed in on Richard Plugge’s criticism of the 2026 Tour de France route — particularly its opening team time trial — calling the Team Visma | Lease a Bike manager’s concerns overblown and “missing the point entirely”. Speaking on his...

Valentin Paret-Peintre has welcomed the 2026 Tour de France route with excitement and ambition, confident that the mountainous profile — and the departure of Remco Evenepoel from Soudal - Quick-Step — could open the door to greater personal freedom next July. Speaking to Cyclism’Actu after the route...

Bernard Hinault was the last French rider to win the Tour de France and is, alongside a few others, a record holder. He is held very dearly by the French and his opinion is also a very important one. Besides Tadej Pogacar and Paul Seixas, the now 70-year old also extensively talked about the Alpe d'...

Kevin Bonaldo, 25-year-old cyclist of the SC Padovani Polo Cherry Bank team, died Friday morning at the San Bortolo hospital in Vicenza. For a month he had been fighting between life and death after suffering from a cardiac arrest at the end of the Piccola Sanremo race in Sovizzo, on September 21. ...

The separation between Juan Ayuso and UAE Team Emirates - XRG looked to be a long time in the making and reached its ultimate climax during the Vuelta a España. The decision had already been taken, but after the team revealed the departure during a rest day, the Spaniard exploded and was not shy of...

We now know what the Tour de France 2026 has in store for us in terms of route, and it is one where there are not too many days where you can make serious differences. In fact there are only six days in which we could see the favourites distance each other in any meaningful way - although it is diff...

France has been waiting for one of its riders to win the Tour de France now for 40 years and it still hasn't happened. For the past decade a few riders came a distant second or where thereabouts, most notably Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot, and now the 'home' nation can hope again with Paul Seixas....

Isaac del Toro made the last-minute decision not to end his 2025 season in Italy and travelled to Mexico to continue racing, taking part in the Mexican national championships where he is the obvious favourite for both events. This Thursday, he has already conquered the time trial event.  The Mexican...

After the reveal of the Tour de France route Team Visma | Lease a Bike DS Grischa Niermann expressed satisfaction at the backloaded route with most decisive stages beginning only on the 14th day of racing. Richard Plugge, the team CEO, has also put an eye on the final Alpe d'Huez stage but particula...

The best female cyclists will head to Switzerland for the Grand Départ of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes. Over nine stages in August, the top athletes will clash to find out which one is the queen of the season at the women's variant of Grande Boucle. Continuing in the trend of past seasons when the...

For the first time in team history, Tudor Pro Cycling won't have to look left or right with uncertainty about whether they'll get selected for the 2026 Tour de France. As the best of ProTeams on the 2025 UCI ranking (only behind Uno-X Mobility, but the Norewgian team will be promoted to WorldTour),...

The 2026 Tour de France Femmes route has been revealed and it has quite a few differences compared to 2025. This year, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot was a cut above the rest on the long mountain passes and ultimately won with nearly 4-minute advantage. In 2026, a new challenge with Mont Ventoux will stand...

The route for the 2026 edition of Tour de France has been revealed on Thursday morning. As always, opinions differ, although the lack of time trial kilometers is once again tangible. But generally speaking, the parcours promise a close battle for the yellow jersey until the very last stages with two...

The Tour de France route has been revealed and it has provided for a lot of debate. The CyclingUpToDate team has taken a look at the route and some of our writers have shared their opinion on the 2026 edition and the climbs that await the riders, as well the how it fits Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaa...

As we go into the month of November, one of cycling's most popular riders and successful sprinters Biniam Girmay still does not have a publicly announced contract for the 2026 season. This isn't because no-one has offered him a deal, but seemingly because the Intermarché-Wanty - Lotto merger seems t...

Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert are both legends of cyclocross, despite still having a few years of their career left and already skipping full cyclocross campaigns already for many years. However, many still hope that the duo would come back to their roots and race one more full season or fo...

Throughoout the day some have wondered whether it was a conscious decision that the upcoming year's Tour de France was backloaded, and the answer is yes. In Paris, Tour director Christian Prudhomme has confirmed that the race will have its most difficult stages all pointed towards the end so as to k...

Remco Evenepoel is the best time trialist in the world and a rider with the dream of winning the Tour de France one day. That may not be in 2026, as the route has been presented almost without a single kilometer of flat time trialing. Within Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe the choices for Grand Tours ne...

The Tour de France is not often the race where innovation is experimented on, but it may be the case in 2026. Only in the Grand Tours do the intermediate sprints have such a large amount of points and is absolutely critical in the fight for the points classifications, and in 2026 the sprinters will...

The 2026 Tour de France is one that will feature a lot more diversity when it comes to mountain stages than this year's, and also some higher and more difficult peaks. After the route presentation Team Visma | Lease a Bike's DS Grischa Niermann shared his thoughts on the route and is quite satisfied...

It is here! We take a look at the official profiles of all Tour de France stages for the 2026 edition. It is a race that includes a Grand Depart in Barcelona, stages in all mountain ranges and a brutal set of days in the Alps including two consecutive summit finishes at the Alpe d'Huez, with the fin...

Jonas Vingegaard had an unlucky spring but ultimately found his best level once again in the summer, only it wasn't enough to beat Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France. Despite this, the Dane manage to carry some of his form over to the Vuelta a España where he was still able to win despite not havin...

The route of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes has been announced this morning in Paris and it features a very difficult route which differs quite a lot from this year's. The time trials are back at next year's edition and we will have a mythical first-time summit finish at Mont Ventoux, with a finale...

The Tour de France presentation is taking place this morning and directly from Paris comes the route of the 2026 edition which will feature two summit finishes at the Alpe d'Huez to finish off the race before heading to Paris. All of the stage starts and finales have been confirmed!  As had been mad...

Unibet Tietema Rockets is looking for a potential wildcard for the 2026 Tour de France and other big races, and this winter has seen a big bet on some strong and popular Dutch riders. After the signing of Dylan Groenewegen, Wout Poels is now also joining the ProTeam.  Considering they were 30th in t...

Denmark’s golden era has rarely felt richer. Jonas Vingegaard finished 2025 as the nation’s top-ranked rider globally after winning the Vuelta a Espana and taking second at the Tour de France, while Mads Pedersen produced a wall-to-wall campaign that rarely dipped. Ask former Tour de France star Mic...

Tadej Pogacar could enter 2026 without a genuine rival at the very top of men’s cycling, according to former professionals Nicolas Fritsch and Steve Chainel. Speaking on Eurosport’s Bistrot Vélo, the two French analysts discussed the balance of power in the sport following another dominant campaign...

More than a decade on from his historic Tour de France victory, Sir Bradley Wiggins has again hinted that there is more to be revealed about the controversial Team Sky era that defined the Grand Tours during British cycling’s golden decade in the 2010s. Speaking on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, Wiggins su...

As we enter the off-season, the peloton begins to fully rest up from a full year of racing, before they begin to think about the 2026 season. With no Grand Tour routes revealed yet, very little plans have been made. But a few riders have already announced where they want to race in 2026 when it come...

Over the next three years, Tudor Pro Cycling will aim to secure a spot for themselves in World Tour. The Swiss PRT team brings together the strongest team at the level, led by experienced stars Julian Alaphilippe, Marc Hirschi, Michael Storer, Matteo Trentin and newcomer Stefan Küng. And behind thes...

The final update of the 2025 season features Asian races such as Tour of Guangxi and the Utsunomiya Japan Cup Road Race, two Italian classics - Giro del Veneto and Veneto Classic -, the NIBC Tour of Holland and Chrono des Nations. You can check the previous UCI rankings update here. After the final...

Uno-X Mobility will join XDS Astana Team in exuberant celebrations at the end of this season. Both teams have achieved what many deemed unlikely, if not impossible, and will compete at the WorldTour level in 2026-2028 period. Unlike Astana who achieved the miracle through their own effort, the Scand...

The women's cycling has undergone a rapid development in recent years. But in an attempt to catch up to their men counterpart, it seems like the ladies have skipped a few steps. Where this shows is in attempts to further expand the sport are running into obstacles that cannot be overcame as easily a...

The 2025 season was similar to 2024 in the sense that Tadej Pogacar won anywhere he landed his feet, unless his opponent was Mathieu van der Poel. Next year, we cannot expect a massive shift in the world's order, however French cycling has an ace up their sleeve for the foreseeable future. That card...

Mental health in sports is something that is still to this day rather neglected, and it has been made public that only World Tour team has a full-time psychologist according to Martijn Tusveld, a Dutch rider who has spent many years at the top level. He is currently working to become one, and is sur...

Danny van Poppel is ready to take a bigger leading position within Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe. With Jordi Meeus and Sam Welsford these past two years, the Dutch rider had been a leadout man with occasional freedom throughout his time with the German team, but he has proven himself to be worth more...

Into late October there aren't many riders with great potential left in the market, which has been ongoing for almost three months at this point. However today Unibet Tietema Rockets - who are changing names towards Unibet Rose Rockets - have announced the signing of Jannis Peter, a climber who rece...

The winners of the Velo d'Or will be announced on the 5th of December in Paris and this Wednesday we've gotten to know the men and women nominated for the award. Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Demi Vollering are all amongst the list of contenders for the...

The death of Muriel Furrer at the 2024 World Championships was one that was critical for the cycling world and has brough back to the surface some of its safety issues. In this cases Furrer crashed out of sight of any other rider or race staff and due to the lack of a GPS tracking system or radio, s...

The cyclocross calendar has changed quite a lot last season and this year the changes remain rather similar. With no huge trips and the World Cup more condensed, we could potentially see Wout van Aert or Mathieu van der Poel contest for the competition if they so wish to do it.  Van Aert specially,...

The world of cycling is one that has many twists and turns around every corner, and although most riders and figures are typically media trained and avoid getting into controversial topics and sharing their personal opinions on controversial figures, this does happen. Now, UCI president David Lappar...

It's hard to imagine having a better season then what Tadej Pogacar experienced this year, however it is possible. With Milano-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix still missing from his palmarès, the World Champion has clear races where he should put his focus on next season, alongside races such as the Tour...

Florian Vermeersch has become the new rainbow jersey at the Gravel World Championships earlier this month, after coming second to Mathieu van der Poel last year. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider is incredibly talented in the flat and treacherous one-day races, and was a close supported of Pogacar a...

Movistar Team has done a lot of behind the scenes deal over the past few weeks or months and it has now finally unveiled them. After the end of the season, there had been the worry that the Spanish team was going to be losing some of its leaders or important riders, but that is not the case as this...

It's official. Isaac del Toro will compete this week in the National Championships of Mexico 2025, both in the road race and in the time trial. Thus, before closing his year, the third best rider in the UCI classification will try to wear a couple of jerseys that he could wear throughout the next ca...

The Nacht van Woerden is one of cyclocross' most iconic venues with the event always taking place at night, and this year before the start of any major cup. This Tuesday night we've had some quite popular winners as Felipe Orts and Fem van Empel raised their arms in glory.  In the women's race van E...

In the quiet mountain backdrop of Andorra, far from the chaos of Grand Tours and finish-line fanfare, Alex Carera reflected on what truly drives cycling’s biggest star. The super-agent — who has guided Tadej Pogacar’s career since 2016 — believes the secret behind the Slovenian’s sustained dominance...

Unibet Tietema Rockets are no longer just a team that is a byproduct of Tour de Tietema YouTube channel. 26th on the 2025 UCI ranking, the Dutch team with French license can now be rightfully referred to as a full-pledged ProTeam. And as such, they can seriously aspire for a Tour de France wildcard....

The final update of the 2025 season features Asian races such as Tour of Guangxi and the Utsunomiya Japan Cup Road Race, two Italian classics - Giro del Veneto and Veneto Classic -, the NIBC Tour of Holland and Chrono des Nations. You can check the previous UCI rankings update. As expected, the top...

Matej Mohoric won't look back at 2025 with the best memories. But in his last competitive start of the year, the Slovenian was able to give his difficult season a somewhat happy ending. A third place at the Gravel World Championships in Limburg were certainly one of the few highlights of Mohoric's 2...

Sophie Alisch gained international attention as an upcoming boxing talent when she became German junior champion at the age of just 14. As a professional, Alisch went undefeated with 10 consecutive victories. But after her 10th triumph less than a year ago, Alisch surprised with an announcement to s...

Between the disappearances of three successful professional teams at the end of 2025, there are also some positive news to be deduced from the list of WorldTour and ProTour applications for 2026. Among those, we find two new ProTeams with Hungarian MBH Bank Ballan CSB taking up the traditional Itali...

It's taken a brief back and forth, but now Soudal - Quick-Step truly concluded its lineup for the 2026 season. Their 30th (31st) rider for the upcoming period will be Laurenz Rex, a strong cobbles specialist who comes over from Intermarché - Wanty with a reputation of a two-time Paris-Roubaix top-10...

After a month of rest, Wout van Aert is back on the bike — and, if his latest Strava post is anything to go by, the build-up to another cyclocross campaign has quietly begun. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider logged a 107-kilometre ride on Tuesday morning, his first since the Super 8 Classic on 20...

Vincenzo Nibali has backed Isaac del Toro to take on a Grand Tour leadership role next season, believing the young Mexican is ready to step into the spotlight after another dominant year for UAE Team Emirates - XRG. In quotes collected by TuttoBiciWeb, the Italian legend offered an in-depth reflect...

Former world champion turned general manager Thor Hushovd says Uno-X Mobility are dreaming big after officially earning promotion to the UCI WorldTour, telling Sporza that the team now wants to “deliver a Norwegian Tour de France winner” in the years ahead. The team’s rise marks a major milestone fo...

Brent Copeland has issued a stark warning to cycling’s governing body, urging the UCI to introduce structural reforms before the sport “loses its balance” under the financial weight of superteams. The Team Jayco AlUla general manager, who also serves as president of the AIGCP (the international asso...

Jonas Vingegaard has opened up for the first time about the chaotic scenes that overshadowed the 2025 Vuelta a Espana, revealing how close the peloton came to abandoning the race altogether during the height of the protests that repeatedly halted stages. The Dane, who ultimately went on to win the r...

In a season where Belgian cycling was dominated by the usual debates around who shone brightest, former pro turned analyst Jan Bakelants has urged fans not to underestimate Wout van Aert’s 2025 campaign — describing it as “one he’ll still be remembered for in thirty years’ time.” While many have poi...

When Uno-X Mobility sealed their long-awaited promotion to the WorldTour on Sunday, the achievement was more than just a sporting milestone — it was the culmination of years of quiet ambition and steady growth. And according to Magnus Cort Nielsen, the celebrations inside the Scandinavian team were...

At 35, Primoz Roglic no longer rides as the calculating perfectionist who once seemed destined to win every stage race he entered. The Slovenian has evolved into something rarer — a rider at ease with his own contradictions. Ten seasons into his WorldTour career and approaching what may be his final...

Few riders in the peloton speak as frankly as Johannes Kulset. The 21-year-old Norwegian has just completed the most transformative season of his young career, helping Uno-X Mobility secure a historic promotion to the WorldTour. But when the conversation turns to Tadej Pogacar, cycling’s dominant fo...

Groupama - FDJ have confirmed the signing of Ewen Costiou, the 22-year-old Frenchman widely regarded as one of the country’s brightest emerging stage-race prospects. The Breton rider joins the team on a two-year contract, switching across from the collapsing Arkea - B&B Hotels setup. The announcemen...

A notable absentee from the UCI’s newly published list of provisional WorldTour registrations for 2026 has raised eyebrows across the peloton: Team Jayco AlUla. The Australian outfit – home to riders such as Michael Matthews, Luke Plapp and Ben O’Connor – has not yet successfully submitted its paper...

Movistar Team rider Iván García Cortina believes cycling’s biggest force, Tadej Pogacar, can be beaten – and says the Spanish squad is quietly confident heading into 2026 thanks to a rejuvenated Enric Mas and new signing Cian Uijtdebroeks. The Spaniard, who this year shifted into a more defined supp...

Just a few months ago, Australian veteran Michael Matthews faced the possibility of losing not only his career, but his life. On the eve of the Tour de France, the Team Jayco AlUla rider suffered a pulmonary embolism, a diagnosis that shattered all certainties and forced him to skip the Grande Boucl...

INEOS Grenadiers have confirmed the signing of 23-year-old Norwegian climber Embret Svestad-Bardseng, one of Scandinavia’s most promising young riders, on a three-year contract. The move marks a major step in the career of a rider who has quietly impressed during his debut WorldTour season — and is...

As the level in pro cycling increases year after year, the sort of performances that earned big wins and results a few years ago can no longer pull it off, and so we begin to see a trend of riders retiring from competition earlier than they would have otherwise. Over the past hours Nans Peters and J...

Tadej Pogacar and UAE Team Emirates are already looking ahead to 2026 — and the mission is clear. After a historic 2025 season in which the Slovenian superstar claimed his fourth Tour de France title, three Monuments and a second consecutive world title, team boss Joxean Fernandez ‘Matxin’ says all...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is at the very top of the cycling world and getting a contract in it is a difficult task, regardless of the quality of the rider. 36-year old Julien Vermote, in the final years of his career and after an entire season without a team, found himself racing for one of the very...

Tom Dumoulin’s may have retired from professional cycling, but the Dutchman's days turning heads for sporting performance are seemingly not over. The 2017 Giro d’Italia champion, long renowned for his time trial prowess and meticulous pacing, produced an extraordinary debut marathon performance in A...

Tadej Pogacar wasn't really challenged by anyone for his last two Tour de France titles. Thus the Slovenian is already at 4 yellow jerseys, and the number could've been much higher if it wasn't for Jonas Vingegaard. In recent years, the Danish climber has been the only man to give fans a hope of exc...

When Filippo Fiorelli got the call that would change his career, he was sitting around the dinner table with his family. It wasn’t a call he’d been expecting, and it certainly wasn’t from the team he had in mind. “Paolo [Alberati, his agent] phoned while we were eating,” Fiorelli told Bici.Pro. “I o...

Lotte Kopecky cannot look at a successful 2025. The world champion emerged victorious at the Tour of Flanders, but otherwise concludes the season pretty much empty-handed. At least, viewed through the strict metric of previous years. The Belgian dealt with multiple problems throughout the year and u...

Tour of Holland made its international debut last week. The new stage race in the Netherlands brought about a ray of hope in a country that has been struggling organization-wise lately with a fresh breath of air. Not everything went perfectly over the week, but generally speaking the race has been a...

Stefan Küng wrote his final chapter in the jersey of Groupama - FDJ at the Chrono des Nations last Sunday. The partnership produced many stunning performances over the seven years and the two parties say goodbye in a friendly manner, the Swissman believes. For the 31-year-old time trial specialist,...

We've grown accustomed in recent years that the Tour de France holds a Grand Départ outside of France and that the situation will not be different in years to come. For 2026, we eye a start in Barcelona (Spain). In 2027, the peloton will head across the La Manche to depart from Edinburgh (Scotland,...

For Alex Carera, few riders symbolise cycling’s new global era quite like Biniam Girmay. The Italian super-agent, who manages some of the sport’s biggest names including Tadej Pogacar, believes the Eritrean sprinter has reshaped not just the results sheet, but the identity of modern cycling itself....

Egan Bernal has posted a deeply personal reflection on social media, offering a rare insight into the mindset that carried him from the brink of tragedy back to the top of professional cycling. The Colombian Grand Tour champion, who has battled through multiple major injuries since his life-threaten...

Joxean Matxin has spoken publicly for the first time since Juan Ayuso’s acrimonious split from UAE Team Emirates - XRG, insisting that despite the controversy surrounding the 23-year-old’s departure, he still holds the young Spaniard in the highest regard. Speaking in an interview with Eurosport Esp...

Wout Van Aert had a fairly eventful season with a challenging spring programme that converted into two Grand Tour participations and finishing the season in Canda. And all of that despite starting his preparation from zero after a knee injury at the 2024 Vuelta a Espana. As the Belgian definitely pl...

As speculation grows over whether Jonas Vingegaard could one day broaden his horizons beyond the Grand Tours, Eurosport’s team of Danish cycling experts have urged caution — warning that the two-time Tour de France winner should not risk diluting his formidable stage-racing strengths in pursuit of t...

While most riders are already switching off for the winter, France’s 19-year-old sensation Paul Seixas seems determined to keep pushing his limits. The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team starlet ended his 2025 campaign in the same relentless fashion that has defined his breakout year – by completing a...

The demise of the Arkéa – B&B Hotels team has sent shockwaves through French cycling, prompting its long-time general manager Emmanuel Hubert to issue a stark warning about the sport’s financial imbalance. Speaking to RMC Sport after confirming the team’s closure, Hubert argued that the disappearanc...

When the curtain falls on the 2025 season, it won’t just mark the conclusion of another year of racing — it will mark the end of an era. Forty riders are confirmed so far to be hanging up their wheels this year, a cohort that together shaped modern cycling: from Sky’s industrial dominance to the fre...

The UCI has clarified its position on ketone supplements, confirming it will not impose any restrictions on their use, but also making clear that it “does not recommend” riders take them. In a statement issued on Monday, cycling’s governing body said that there is “no reason for them to be used”, ci...

The 2025 cycling season may have only just drawn to a close, but preparations for next year are already well under way — and for Remco Evenepoel, this week marks the beginning of a new chapter. Less than ten days after riding his final race in Soudal - Quick-Step colours at Il Lombardia, the Belgian...

Isaac del Toro’s engine shows no sign of cooling after a sensational season that saw him take 16 victories and finish third in the 2025 UCI World Ranking, behind only Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. The 21-year-old Mexican, already being hailed as one of cycling’s brightest young stars, has refl...

After a struggle for consistent form this year, Joshua Tarling closed his 2025 campaign with a performance of reassurance and authority at the Chrono des Nations, storming to victory ahead of Jay Vine and Stefan Kung to underline once again why he is regarded as one of cycling’s top time trial speci...

The world’s most dominant squad, UAE Team Emirates - XRG, are reportedly closing in on another marquee signing — with French classics specialist Benoit Cosnefroy tipped to join Tadej Pogacar’s powerhouse from 2026. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio, UAE are in advance...

Jonas Vingegaard has offered a word of caution to France’s brightest young prospect, Paul Seixas, urging the 19-year-old to resist the temptation of making an early Tour de France debut. Speaking to RMC Sport, the double Tour champion said that while Seixas’s talent is undeniable, the unique pressur...

The Tour of Holland has so far been market by its controversies, with stage 3 having been cancelled due to the lack of police escort and the presence of vehicles on the route, as well as the disqualification of Jan-Willem van Schip. The latter has now reacted to the decision that was case upon him,...

Michael Storer closed his 2025 season with one of the finest results of his career, finishing third at Il Lombardia behind only Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel. For the Tudor Pro Cycling Team rider, it was the culmination of a steady, confident rise through a demanding year that included two Grand...

Olav Kooij has put an end to his chapter with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, after six fruitful seasons in which he has become one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton, getting 47 professional wins. The first edition of the Tour of Holland was the perfect place for the Dutch star to say goodbye, alt...

Belgian cyclocross star Eli Iserbyt has not been able to participate in the first races of the 2025-2026 season, as he is still recovering from multiple surgeries on his iliac artery. He already suffered nerve pain in his left leg last season, and he has not been able to compete since February. Iser...

29-year-old Paul Double from Team Jayco AlUla clinched the overall victory at the Tour of Guangxi on Sunday, capping his first WorldTour general classification triumph after a tense and emotional finale in Nanning. The 29-year-old Brit, who seized the leader’s jersey after winning the uphill finish...

Michael Vanthourenhout had an excellent start to the Superprestige series, securing a hard-fought victory in the opening round in Ruddervoorde. He narrowly defeated Joris Nieuwenhuis in a sprint, and got his second victory of the season, after winning the Swiss Cyclocross Cup #1 - Internationales Ra...

Sakarias Koller Loland’s first professional victory at the 2025 Veneto Classic will be remembered as far more than a personal milestone. His breakthrough ride not only delivered the 24-year-old Norwegian the biggest win of his career, but also secured Uno-X Mobility’s long-sought promotion to the UC...

After years spent as the figurehead of a powerhouse squad, Demi Vollering’s first season away from Team SD Worx - Protime was always going to be a test — of freedom, of leadership, and of faith in a new structure. Now, as her debut campaign with FDJ - Suez draws to a close, the Dutch star has reflec...

This Sunday the 19th of October sees quite a bit of UCI races closing out the season in Europe and Asia when it comes to top events, but over in the Pyrenees, the micronation of Andorra has hosted a mountain time trial and criterium featuring only Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic and I...

Few figures in French cycling command the same respect or longevity as Marc Madiot. The Groupama - FDJ boss, now into his fourth decade as a manager, has seen just about everything the sport can throw at him. Yet even he sounds genuinely excited when the conversation turns to 19-year-old Paul Seixas...

After a nightmare season that had threatened to derail his whole career, Christophe Laporte has triumphantly brought his 2025 campaign to a redemptive close by winning the overall classification at the Tour of Holland — his first victory since returning to action from a debilitating mid-season illne...

Sakarias Koller Loland produced the ride of his young career to win the 2025 Veneto Classic, out-sprinting Florian Vermeersch, Diego Ulissi, and Lorenzo Germani after a chaotic and hard-fought finale on the steep roads above Bassano del Grappa. The Norwegian from Uno-X Mobility emerged from a day of...

Michael Vanthourenhout has claimed a thrilling victory this Sunday afternoon at Superprestige Ruddervoorde, taking his first ever win at the venue after outlasting Joris Nieuwenhuis in a dramatic sprint to the line. The men’s Superprestige opener had been chaotic from the start, with heavy condition...

Joshua Tarling confirmed his status as one of the world’s premier time-trial specialists with another emphatic victory at the Chrono des Nations, stopping the clock at 51 minutes 12 seconds over the 45-kilometre course in Les Herbiers. The 21-year-old Brit averaged 52.6 km/h, mastering the damp, tec...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe's Dutch national champion Danny van Poppel has taken victory on the final stage of the 2025 Tour of Holland, not from a traditional sprint, but from a breakaway. In terms of the GC win however, that goes to Christophe Laporte of Team Visma | Lease a Bike.  From the start,...

The 2025 edition of the Chrono des Nations marks the end of the European road cycling season, and once again brings some of the world’s top time trial specialists to Les Herbiers, in France’s Vendée region. As tradition dictates, the event will feature a packed schedule of races across all age categ...

Marion Norbert Riberolle has taken victory at Superprestige Ruddervorde 2025, taking one of the biggest wins of her career and ruining the return to the field for world champion Fem van Empel. Amandine Fouquenet, France’s national champion, made the fastest start, leading through the opening corners...

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has had a stellar season upon her return to road racing and the climax of this was at the Tour de France Femmes. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider has been able to show her best form and apply her abilities to their very best, and next year she will try to replicate this for...

The road season officially ended for Tadej Pogacar more than a week ago at Il Lombardia. However, the Slovenian has been participating in some final criterium exhibitions. The last of them, the Andorra Cycling Masters, where he talked about his possible participation in the 2026 Vuelta a Espana and...

Alex Baudin is not a rider who has come directly to battle with Tadej Pogacar often throughout the past year but he - like many others - very much feels the effect of the Slovenian's presence in any race, and is honest about how it is quite annoying to rarely find breathing room to take wins.  "Hone...

Stage 6 of the Tour of Guangxi had some more climbing and it featured some interesting action, however the outcome of the day was the same as every single other sprint stage in the Chinese race, with Paul Magnier leading the way through the finish line for the final World Tour race day of the season...

Lenny Martínez has had a strong first season with Bahrain - Victorious with victories all-year round in all kinds of races. He has closed it off with another triumph, this time around at the Japan Cup which together with several other races today, closes out the UCI calendar for the season.  The Fre...

Isaac Del Toro’s late-season surge didn’t just pad a palmarès, it potentially showed what the future of cycling looks like. Across Italy and beyond, his acceleration has started to bend races to his will, and the implications for 2026 and 2027 are already being debated. The conversation around trans...

As the 2025 season winds down, the annual debates about how cycling can improve are already heating up. Among the most vocal critics this October are two long-serving Italian managers, Roberto Reverberi of VF Group-Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè and Serge Parsani of Solution Tech–Vini Fantini. Both have denou...

South African climber Louis Meintjes quietly closed the curtain on his professional career last weekend at Il Lombardia, bringing to an end 13 years in the peloton. The 33-year-old from Pretoria, a former Vuelta a España stage winner and national champion, leaves the sport with a mix of pride and re...

The Tour of Holland returned to the road on Saturday for stage 4, and it was Dutch rider Timo de Jong who seized the moment. The VolkerWessels Continental rider claimed his first professional victory after outsmarting bigger names in a selective finale. It was a result that carried both relief and d...

Three straight Sundays, three straight silvers behind the same man. On paper, finishing second to Tadej Pogacar at the World Championships road race in Kigali, the European Championships in France, and Il Lombardia in Bergamo looks like a hammer blow. In reality, I think it’s the opposite: a reassur...

The 2025 Veneto Classic marks the grand finale of Italy’s autumn racing block, wrapping up the season on October 19 alongside the Chrono des Nations. A relatively new addition to the calendar, the one-day 1.Pro race has quickly carved out a key place in the late-season landscape. It’s an event that...

Jan Christen signed with UAE Team Emirates - XRG and this year he has evolved immensely, but that comes with its downsides as he is no longer underestimated and no longer enjoys the freedom attacking that he had earlier in the year that brought him a few important wins.  "It's relaxing to be signed...

On the 19th of October we've got the final of the Italian Autumn classics, which will bring the season to a close at the same time as the Chrono des Nations. The Veneto Classic is a recent addition to the calendar but it is a 1.Pro race, providing valuable UCI points for those still hunting for ever...

On the 19th of October, the European season comes to a close, and one of the races that brings it to an end is the Chrono des Nations, one of the calendar's most traditional races and the only one-day time trial race that isn't integrated in some championships. We take a look at its profile and prev...

Paul Double is a rider with a lot of quality and an interesting history in the sport of cycling, and unlike most riders in the modern age, it seems is now beginning to reach the peak of his career at age 29. Today he won the queen stage of the Tour of Guangxi, his first World Tour triumph, and tomor...

Danish cyclist Mattias Skjelmose is back in the news after his surprise withdrawal from the Tour of Guangxi with back problems, amid an atmosphere already charged by controversial statements and questionable decisions within the Lidl-Trek team. Before the start of the competition in China, Skjelmose...

The very fast Exact Cross Essen delivered thrilling action this Saturday afternoon, as we've seen two sprint finishes essentially in both men's and women's race. In the end it was Lucinda Brand and Toon Vandebosch who managed to come away with the victories.  In the women's race Lucinda Brand was th...

Mattias Skjelmose is in China this week where he had started the Tour of Guangxi, but abandoned with back pain as he had previously announced before the race. At the race, manager Kim Andersen talked about the setbacks the Dane experienced this year and how it turned it into a difficult season despi...

The queen stage of the Tour of Holland delivered on the action, with a Dutch continental rider forming part of the day's breakaway, getting caught by the main favourites on the day but then going on to take the stage win on the mythical VAM-berg whilst Christophe Laporte has taken the race lead afte...

Victor Lafay is a very talented however one who is also realistic about his time and outlook on a pro career in cycling. The Frenchman, winner of a stage at the 2023 Tour de France - and man who followed Pogacar and Vingegaard on the previous day, is 50-50 about ending his career and the decision ma...

The merger between Intermarché - Wanty and Lotto is one that will bring two World Tour teams together next year, but not with their combined set of leaders. A few of the main figures will be leaving whilst others stay, but few riders knew or even currently know who actually is staying. Head of the C...

Israel - Premier Tech has had problems with being an attractive team and signing new figures but ultimately with the departure of the main sponsor and Sylvan Adams it's finally begun announcing new riders coming in. This Friday, Ryan Mullen has been confirmed as to joining over from Red Bull - BORA...

Mathieu van der Poel is a World Champion on the road, gravel and cyclocross on multiple occasions already but is missing Mountain Biking on his palmarès. Over the years he has put in some focus on it, but not enough to succeed. Richard Groenendaal questions his commitment and believes there has to b...

Every year there are plenty post-Tour de France criteriums that fill in the weeks after the race, however the race's influence spreads into the fall with several criteriums in Asia. This does include the Singapore criterium where many of the world's best sprinters and Primoz Roglic will be at the st...

Starting fees in cyclocross are very high and often are what keeps the top pros running with a high pay throughout the year. Bart Wellens, former World Champion and legend of the discipline, questions whether it's worth it for the riders to take up a road calendar during the summer whilst also accus...

Isaac del Toro has been for a few years one of the brightest talents in pro cycling however few would've expected his evolution to be so sharp in 2025, where he was on the verge of winning the Giro d'Italia and got to the end of the season with 16 victories.  "It was crazy good. I learned a lot and...

The Tour of Guangxi is the final World Tour event of the year and it closes out the calendar in Asia. China hosts the six-day race where there are still lots of UCI points to attribute and some meaningful victories too. Stage 6 will take place on the 19th of October. The stage is estimated to start...

Oier Lazkano’s situation at Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe has quietly become one of the strangest stories in the professional peloton. The Spaniard has not raced for the German WorldTour outfit since Paris-Roubaix — more than six months ago — and rumours continue to swirl about what has kept him sidel...

Tadej Pogacar’s historic 2025 season has left much of the peloton in a state of collective despair — at least that’s the view of Het Nieuwsblad analysts Guy Van den Langenbergh and Jan-Pieter De Vlieger, who believe the Slovenian’s relentless dominance is starting to suffocate competition at the ver...

Team Jayco AlUla's Paul Double has won the queen stage of the Tour of Guangxi and has set ground for the overall win this Sunday in the Chinese race which will close out the calendar. The Briton won the summit finish to Nongla and has become the new race leader with a strong performance.  The UAE Te...

Albert Withen Philipsen's professional debut was wildly anticipated in 2025 and the Dane did not fail to deliver. Although he didn't quite reach the heights of his classmate Paul Seixas who took bronze medal at elite European Championships last week, Philipsen's inclusion into WorldTour went smoothl...

After 15 years in the professional peloton, Wagner Bazin WB will cease to exist in 2026. The historic Belgian (pro-)continental team, which began as Wallonie-Bruxelles and went through several identities over the last decade, is coming to an end amid internal disagreements, sporting frustration and...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike had hoped to celebrate Olav Kooij's birthday and have a lively stage with Christophe Laporte in the fight for the overall in the Tour of the Netherlands, but the day in Zuid-Limburg came to an abrupt end after the opening kilometers. The race was stopped after a serious inc...

Next Sunday, Andorra will host the first edition of the Andorra Cycling Masters, an unprecedented event that will bring together just four of the world's top cycling names: Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic and Isaac Del Toro. But one question inevitably arises: why won't Remco Evenepoe...

Remco Evenepoel’s move to Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe has brought one of cycling’s most intriguing partnerships to an end. After years of speculation and internal tension, the Belgian has left Soudal - Quick-Step — a decision that, according to Axel Merckx, was always going to happen. “This marriage wa...

The Dutch cycling federation (KNWU) has released a powerful statement condemning the wave of online abuse directed at riders in the aftermath of the women’s race at the UCI Gravel World Championships in Limburg. The event, which took place last weekend in the rolling hills of South Limburg, produced...

Fresh details have emerged about the frightening scenes that led to the cancellation of stage 3 at the 2025 Tour of Holland, with XDS Astana Team's Cees Bol describing a series of near-misses that left riders with no choice but to stop racing. The Dutch sprinter, speaking to WielerFlits, explained t...

Mathieu van der Poel’s 2025 season was as close to flawless as cycling gets. Victories at Milano-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix, two stage wins and the yellow jersey at the Tour de France — all achieved with a trademark blend of aggression and mastery that has come to define the Dutchman’s racing style....

It was meant to be the perfect end to a long, gruelling season – sunshine, beaches, and a few days of well-earned rest in Florida. But for Soren Waerenskjold, the post-season dream holiday with his fiancée Iben Kvisle has been replaced by something far less relaxing: a 44.8-kilometre time trial in w...

For most riders in the peloton, the idea of “dropping” Tadej Pogacar belongs in fiction. The Slovenian has spent 2025 dismantling fields across Monuments and Grand Tours alike — a season of near-total control that has blurred the lines between dominance and inevitability. But for Geraint Thomas, the...

The Tour of Holland 2025 descended into chaos on Friday afternoon as stage 3 was cancelled mid-race due to serious safety concerns, with organisers and riders alike declaring the conditions too dangerous to continue. According to WielerFlits, the peloton came to a halt after a series of alarming inc...

Tremendous controversy has arisen to end the cycling season on the road. In the middle of the Tour of Holland 2025, there has been an unfortunate episode that has forced the cancellation of stage 3 of the race. The peloton has stood up and has managed to stop the day's racing because of the great da...

It's not everyday that a professional cyclist is banned from entering a country but the end of the 2025 season has been delivering controversies that would've been hard to imagine. After a description in a Strava activity, the situation has escalated to the podium where Burgos Burpellet BH rider Mar...

The Tour of Holland has thus far seen two time trials with Ethan Hayter winning both and a bunch sprint won by Tim Merlier, two high-level riders who are boosting the race significantly. However the race has equally been linked to the disqualification of Jan-Willem van Schip over the seatpost on his...

This has been known for several months, but behind the scenes there were countless obstacles towards making it happen. Lotto and Intermarché - Wanty are merging this winter to form one single team which will belong in the World Tour under the current license of the Lotto team who is set for a promot...

The 2026 Tour de France will be revealed in 1 week exactly from today. Hence, most of the route has already been designed and confirmed, but not been made publicly. However, it is possible to understand where the race will be heading next year featuring the Pyrenees in the opening days of the race;...

The season is coming very close to its end and riders are facing their final opportunities to leave a mark in the 2025 season. The market is not closed, but not many riders remain available to be signed for the upcoming 2026 season. INEOS Grenadiers in the meantime have finally announced the transfe...

The Tour of Guangxi is the final World Tour event of the year and it closes out the calendar in Asia. China hosts the six-day race where there are still lots of UCI points to attribute and some meaningful victories too. Stage 5 will take place on the 18th of October. The stage is set to start at 05:...

Paul Magnier is literally unbeatable at the Tour of Guangxi and with the profiles simply appearing too similar to each other, the first four stages have seen the same rider take the win in the exact same circumstance, in a display of power rarely seen anywhere in pro cycling.  Stage 4 did provide so...