The Faun Drôme Classic is going to be taking place on the 1st of March and is the continuation of the extensive French one-day race calendar - whilst also being the second of two highly prestigious races over the weekend. The race is expected to start and finish at 11:55 and 16:25CET.  The race is y...

The women's peloton will be racing the Omloop het Nieuwsblad on the 28th of February. The Belgian classic, the first cobbled one of the spring, is a key point as riders test their winter form on the classic bergs of Flanders including the brutal Muur de Geraardsbergen. We take a look at its startlis...

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin have analyzed the difficult UAE Tour that Remco Evenepoel has had; the rise of Juan Ayuso in his successful debut at Lidl-Trek and how the entire peloton may have to deal with a Tadej Pogacar that may be a level higher in 2026 and could give the rest of his competit...

There is a multitude of opinions on Remco Evenepoel's season so far. Whilst Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard have kept their powder dry and will only start their season in March; the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe already has 15 race days under the belt, including several wins and defeats. Chris Horn...

Wout van Aert is experiencing another cursed spring. The Belgian managed to make a return to form and was set to be at the start line of Omloop het Nieuwbslad for the opening day of the spring classics but this is no longer going to be the case. The leader of Team Visma | Lease a Bike has come down...

The riders take on the first cobbled classic of the season. For many, the 'start of the season', as the peloton arrives to Belgium to ride the Omloop het Nieuwsblad on the 28th of February. With just over a month left to the cobbled monuments, this will be the first true challenge of the spring for...

After confirming his presence at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2026, the big question now is: will Mathieu van der Poel also tackle Kuurne–Brussel–Kuurne the following day? According to several reports, there is a strong chance the Dutchman will complete the Opening Weekend double. The Alpecin–Premier Tech...

There has been a lot of discourse surrounding Remco Evenepoel following his start to the season; but mainly his UAE Tour performance. Whilst most has been negative following the Emirati race, Tom Dumoulin argues that this was not overly worrying and that the Belgian is in the right path to try and b...

It was on the 4th of February that Mads Pedersen crashed at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, his first race day of the season, which ended with a fractured wrist and collarbone. For some time, it seemed as if the spring classics themselves were at risk, as the Dane faced several weeks off the bike....

Strade Bianche is professional cycling's most famous gravel-focused event, and in it there are three sectors that are of particular relevance: Monte Sante Marie, Colle Pinzuto and Le Tolfe. After the first was named after Fabian Cancellara, the second has been named after none other than Tadej Pogac...

Damien Touzé, a rider for Cofidis who took part in the Tour de France last summer, may be forced to end his career following a crash at the Tour of Oman. The French rider sustained very serious injuries which have not only kept him in the Middle East for an extensive period of time; but also an inte...

Remco Evenepoel’s participation in the UAE Tour was expected to be a continuation of what had been an excellent start to the season, but the Belgian rider delivered a performance below expectations. Since the race concluded, his display in the Middle East has been the subject of intense discussion a...

For more than a decade, Tiesj Benoot measured his seasons in cobbles, punchy climbs and white gravel roads. This year, for the first time in his professional career, the Spring will unfold without him. Benoot, who was one of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team’s major signings for 2026 after four years...

Mathieu van der Poel has had a spotless winter with a second consecutive season without a single defeat in cyclocross; an eighth record-breaking world title; and a stint of road training that has allowed him to begin his road season earlier than planned. His brother David argues that the Dutchman is...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe have their under-23 team present at the Giro di Sardegna and this afternoon it was one of its talented Italian riders who managed to take the win. Davide Donati is already a proven winner, but has further cemented his status as a sprinting power today on stage 2 of the ra...

The Opening Weekend is set to bring out the best from many teams and that is going to make UAE Team Emirates - XRG's mission to take a win quite difficult. However, despite the absence of Tadej Pogacar, the Emirati team can still aim for strong results at Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne - Bruxelles...

Tadej Pogacar and Urska Zigart are often called 'cycling's power couple' but the amount of fans that come up to the World Champion during his regular training can at times become an issue for the duo. Zigart, in a media event hosted by AG Insurance - Soudal, has talked about dealing with the fame in...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike do not have the financial capacity to match the likes of UAE, Lidl-Trek or Red Bull - BORA at the moment however they have in Matthew Brennan perhaps the key to their future. After the era of Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard, the Briton may take the lead in the Dutch team...

The spring classics campaign begins this Saturday already with the Omloop het Nieuwblad. The first of the European World Tour one-day races is highly anticipated due to its luxurious startlist, headlined by the likes of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert.  Due to the lack of difficulty in the la...

Juan Ayuso could not have started his new chapter any better. In his first race with Lidl-Trek, after leaving UAE Team Emirates, the Spaniard won the overall at the Volta ao Algarve and delivered a flawless debut with a stage win in the yellow jersey as well.  The rider’s own assessment is emphatic...

On the 28th of February the peloton will take on the Faun-Ardèche Classic; the first of two weekend races in the Ardèche area where the races favour the climbers and the classics specialists. The race is expected to start and finish at 11:45 and 16:35CET.  The race was created back in 2001 and throu...

Remco Evenepoel has made his motivation clear. His switch to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe for 2026 was not about comfort, nor novelty. It was about closing the gap at the very top. “I changed teams to be closer to Pogacar and Vingegaard,” he told AS during the UAE Tour, outlining the thinking behind...

There are riders who chase Grand Tour ambition cautiously, and there are riders who seem to need friction. For Tom Pidcock, according to his team boss, doubt is not a warning sign. It is ignition. “The worst thing you can do with Tom is to say, ‘I don’t think you can do that,’ because that’s like pu...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike has notably been the World Tour team with the least race days in 2025; and this is a decision made based on performance and the riders available for each race. It has now been revealed that the Dutch team will be skipping two of the main spring classics: Ronde van Brugge an...

Former cyclist Joaquim “Purito” Rodríguez analysed the start of the season on his Puro Ciclismo Podcast and offered several strong reflections on the current state of the peloton, with particular focus on the phenomenon of Tadej Pogacar, the rise of Isaac del Toro and the difference between him and...

The Opening Weekend of the European spring once again begins with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and while nothing is final just yet, the preliminary startlist for the 2026 edition already hints at a deep and intriguing race in waiting. Traditionally the first real collision of the Classics specialists each...

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of increasingly younger riders in professional cycling. We could list countless names from a wide range of nationalities, all dreaming of becoming the next Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard or Remco Evenepoel, of racing the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix...

In Italy, Jonas Vingegaard’s Giro d’Italia debut is not being treated as a scheduling tweak. It is being framed as a legacy move. Writing for Tutto Bici Web, respected journalist Cristiano Gatti argues that the Dane has “already won the prologue of the 2026 Giro. Simply by deciding to come.” The rea...

This week's update features points scored in stage races UAE Tour, Vuelta a Andalucía and Volta ao Algarve, as well as French one-day races Classic Var and Tour des Alpes Maritimes.  You can check the previous UCI Rankings update here. It has been an action-packed week of racing, with three importan...

Dylan van Baarle began his 2026 season at the Volta ao Algarve, where he debuted his new blue-and-white Soudal – Quick-Step jersey after three seasons with Team Visma – Lease a Bike. With the Opening Weekend of the Spring Classics fast approaching, van Baarle can look back on a memorable milestone,...

The women's peloton will be racing the Omloop het Nieuwsblad on the 28th of February. The Belgian classic, the first cobbled one of the spring, is a key point as riders test their winter form on the classic bergs of Flanders including the brutal Muur de Geraardsbergen. We take a look at its profile....

Tom Pidcock was part of INEOS Grenadiers from 2021 to 2024 and although he achieved a lot, his consistency is now on a sky-high level with Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team and his level is the highest its ever been. It is the opposite of a traditional evolution in the sport, but one that has its rea...

Neilson Powless was one of the riders who marked the 2025 spring campaign with his surprising triumph over Team Visma | Lease a Bike at Dwars door Vlaanderen, but this time around he will be missing it. The American rider is missing out on several months of racing now after undergoing a surgery set...

The Opening Weekend is just at our door and the cobbled classics specialists begin here a key month and a half to their season. From Omloop het Nieuwsblad all the way to Paris-Roubaix we will have the likes of Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar present in the main races; which means that most wi...

Stage 1 of the Giro di Sardegna has delivered a very dramatic finale, as Soudal - Quick-Step had the numerical advantage; however saw themselves beaten by Team UKYO's Nicolo Garibbo who outpowered the World Tour duo at the end of a hard stage.  The opening stage of the race took the riders from Cast...

On the 1st of March the peloton takes on Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne. Whilst not part of the World Tour, the cobbled classic - the second of the weekend, following Omloop het Nieuwsblad - is every year one of the most exciting racs of the year, where classics specialists and sprinters come together...

The cobbles are calling again, and Soudal - Quick-Step have shown their hand. The Belgian squad have confirmed their selections for both Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne, opening their 24th consecutive Spring Classics campaign with a clear structure built around Paul Magnier. Be...

There was no hesitation when the offer came. After a breakthrough first campaign with AG Insurance - Soudal, Urska Zigart has committed her future to the Belgian squad through 2027, reinforcing both her growing leadership role and her upward trajectory in the Women’s WorldTour. The extension comes a...

Lidl-Trek’s 2026 Tour de France equation may not be as straightforward as a pure sprint train built around one of the fastest men in the world. According to Mathias Vacek, the team’s competitive edge lies in flexibility rather than specialisation. Speaking in an interview with the Czech Cycling Fede...

The debate around Wout van Aert has followed him for years. Close, always close, but not quite on the top step in the races he wants most. With Opening Weekend signalling the start of another cobbled campaign, former Giro winner Tom Dumoulin believes the difference between another near-miss and Monu...

The question mark has been removed. After weeks of uncertainty, Alpecin-Premier Tech have officially confirmed that Mathieu van der Poel will begin his 2026 road season at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, following the completion of his first training block since the Cyclocross World Championships. As previou...

The Spring Classics are about to begin. This week brings Opening Weekend, which fires the starting gun on one of the most special periods of the entire season. It will do so with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2026, a race that this year will feature a star studded line up battling for victory. And Wout van...

The demands of elite football leave little room for distraction. Training sessions, tactical meetings, match preparation and the relentless Premier League calendar define the week. Yet between it all, Andoni Iraola is muting WhatsApp groups to avoid spoilers from the cobbles. The AFC Bournemouth man...

For Stefan Küng, the difference between winning and merely being present in the Spring Classics is no longer just about form. It is structural. The Swiss rider believes cycling’s elite has evolved into something far harder to crack, with the sport’s biggest names now almost immune to the weaknesses...

Remco Evenepoel is one of the best climbers in the world but not one who often shows his best level on the long climbs. The UAE Tour has exposed a fragility in his armour; and raises concerns after a brilliant season start that looked to show him on track for a proper Tour de France battle.  The cli...

The developing case surrounding the father of Marc Soler has now sparked pointed analysis from Dutch ex-pro turned analyst Thijs Zonneveld, who has cast serious doubt on the circumstances of a 2023 alleged meeting between the UAE rider’s father and banned coach Jose Marti, a figure from cycling’s US...

The clock is ticking. With just days to go until Omloop Het Nieuwsblad opens the Belgian Classics season, Mathieu van der Poel has intensified his preparation in Spain, logging a demanding five-hour training ride on the Costa Blanca as speculation continues over whether he will appear at the start i...

Jasper Philipsen was one of the main protagonists of the 2024 Classics campaign with a victory at Milano-Sanremo and a runner-up result from Paris-Roubaix - his second time finishing runner-up to his leader Mathieu van der Poel. But the 2025 season was a disappointment for the versatile sprinter who...

This week's update features points scored in stage races UAE Tour, Vuelta a Andalucía and Volta ao Algarve, as well as French one-day races Classic Var and Tour des Alpes Maritimes.  You can check the previous UCI Rankings update here. It has been an action-packed week of racing, with three importan...

As has become a tradition, we have not see much of the Visma | Lease a Bike yellow jerseys in the early months of the season, however this weekend, the bees will be ready to strike at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - the first race on the very important spring block. The main cards of the Dutch team are...

The president of the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (CPA), Adam Hansen, has publicly defended the union’s decision to help fund the UCI in its legal battle with SRAM over gearing restrictions. The dispute centres on the UCI’s plan to appeal the 2025 court ruling that forced it to suspend the intr...

The 2026 Clásica de Almería left one of those images that fuel debate for days. In that bunch sprint, Biniam Girmay edged Milan Fretin by the narrowest margin, but the real controversy erupted over third place. At first glance - and not even the initial photo finish - made it clear whether it was Ma...

For all the rule changes, working groups and technology trials introduced in recent years, professional cycling is still making what Matteo Trentin describes as the same basic errors. Speaking on the Bici Sport Podcast, the experienced Tudor Pro Cycling Team rider did not hide his frustration when a...

For half a century, the Tour de France has narrowly avoided the most dangerous extreme heat scenarios. But that margin is shrinking. A new international study warns that rising temperatures across Europe are steadily pushing cycling’s biggest race towards its safety limits. The research, published i...

The Opening Weekend concludes with Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne, and while nothing is final just yet, the preliminary startlist for the 2026 edition already points toward a fast and fiercely contested Sunday in waiting. Traditionally, the counterpoint to Omloop, Kuurne has long carried the reputation...

The wait is over. Team Visma | Lease a Bike have confirmed their line-ups for Opening Weekend, and the headline is clear: Wout van Aert will make his 2026 road debut at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. After weeks of rehabilitation, altitude work and cautious updates following ankle surgery, Van Aert is offic...

Within Decathlon CMA CGM, the discussion around Paul Seixas has shifted noticeably in the space of twelve months. Last season, he was a gifted support rider learning the demands of the WorldTour. This winter, he trained as a protected leader, arrived at the Volta ao Algarve ready to race for the ge...

Five years after his victory, Davide Ballerini will return to the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2026 start line with the know‑how of someone who has already raised his arms in Ninove. The XDS Astana Team rider resumes racing after the late‑January Classica Comunitat Valenciana. That win in 2021, when he wor...

The rush to replicate cycling’s most extraordinary modern outlier may be costing the sport more than it realises. Former UAE Team Emirates road captain Matteo Trentin issued a pointed warning about the direction of elite development, arguing that the industry’s obsession with finding another Tadej P...

On the 28th and 1st of March, the peloton finally arrives in Belgium for the 'Opening Weekend'. The first two cobbled classics of the season, Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne, not only have a lot of reputation but are also key parts of the spring campaign as the main specialists...

At just 18 years of age, Jose Said Cisneros has already secured a place within one of cycling’s most respected development structures. The Mexican climber has stepped up to the Soudal - Quick-Step Devo Team, the official pathway to the Soudal - Quick-Step WorldTour squad, capping a rapid rise that b...

Thor Hushovd has opened the door to one of the most eye-catching crossover stories in recent endurance sport, revealing that Olympic skiing icon Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has been invited to test with Uno-X Mobility once his Winter Games commitments are complete. “I told Klaebo last year that once the...

For more than a decade, Luca Guercilena has been one of the most influential figures in modern cycling. The only Italian general manager in the men’s WorldTour, he has overseen the transformation of Leopard-Trek into Trek-Segafredo and now Lidl-Trek, guiding the organisation into the sport’s elite....

The first phase of the 2026 season is done. With the UAE Tour, Volta ao Algarve and Vuelta a Andalucía wrapped up, the focus now shifts to what many consider the most captivating stretch of the cycling calendar: the spring classics. Stage racing will continue, but March and April belong to the one-d...

After winning another cyclocross world title, Mathieu van der Poel is back on his bike preparing for the spring classics. The Dutch star recently enjoyed a short skiing holiday to recharge his batteries before his road campaign begins. Now, cycling fans and his team managers are eagerly waiting to s...

Isaac del Toro did not just win the queen stage of the UAE Tour 2026. He rewrote its history. On the iconic slopes of Jebel Hafeet, the Mexican rider produced a stunning time of 25:32, obliterating the previous ascent records held by Adam Yates and Tadej Pogacar. The climb, 10.6 kilometres at an ave...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike are going through an incredibly hard period, having lost Simon Yates and Fem van Empel in a matter of weeks to retirement; and now having almost all of their leaders injured or having had to abandon competition due to crashes. Today at the Vuelta a Andalucia, Christophe Lap...

The Vuelta a Andalucía 2026 is already in the books. For Movistar Team, it marked a return to an overall classification win after three years. The Spanish squad celebrated Iván Romeo’s triumph, sealed in the yellow jersey with a strong ride on the final stage, defending his lead after an attack from...

Remco Evenepoel’s UAE Tour was supposed to be another early-season statement. Instead, it became a week of mountain setbacks and post-stage analysis. Dropped on Jebel Mobrah. Distanced again on Jebel Hafeet. A dominant time trial sandwiched between two climbing disappointments. For many, that sequen...

After a season shaped by pressure and physical setbacks, Lotte Kopecky approaches 2026 with a clear idea: enjoy racing again and rediscover her competitive edge in the Spring Classics. The Team SD Worx - Protime leader is putting aside, at least for now, the ambition of fighting for the Tour de Fran...

The UAE Tour presented riders with a first big test of the season. While many including pre-race favourite Remco Evenepoel have failed, at XDS Astana Team, they can be more than happy with Harold Tejada's performance over the week in United Arab Emirates. With a fourth place on Jebel Mobrah, 8th on...

For years, talking about Soudal - Quick-Step was synonymous with absolute dominance on the cobbled Classics. The Wolfpack turned the Flemish spring into its natural habitat, stacking wins at the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix with almost intimidating regularity. In recent seasons, however, the f...

Following a successful road career which saw Romain Bardet win five Grand Tour stages, a Tour de France polka dot jersey and even finish runner-up at the Grande Boucle, the 35-year-old Frenchman had his last dance on the home roads of Critérium du Dauphiné last summer. Following that, he's taken a m...

Jonas Vingegaard initially planned to race the UAE Tour to start off his season but the combination of a crash and illness saw him lacking the form and thus abandon the initial plan. However this doesn't mean less racing for the Dane, who is a surprise announcement to Team Visma | Lease a Bike's Par...

A climb that once helped define Alberto Contador’s era now carries a different name in its modern history. On the final stage of the Volta ao Algarve, Juan Ayuso stopped the clock at 6:39 on the 2.7-kilometre Alto do Malhao, eclipsing Contador’s 6:48 benchmark from 2016 and sealing overall victory i...

Isaac Del Toro’s overall victory at the 2026 UAE Tour may have been the headline result, but inside UAE Team Emirates - XRG, the message was broader and far more ambitious. “We won with 20 different riders last year. Why shouldn’t we go for 21?” Sporting manager Joxean Matxin said after the race in...

Jonas Vingegaard’s return to racing will not come gently. After weeks of uncertainty following his training crash and subsequent illness, the Dane has added Paris-Nice to his calendar, a race former national coach Anders Lund describes as anything but forgiving. “It is a more brutal race than the al...

A winter spent at altitude, largely cut off from those closest to him, was always going to demand proof. At the end of five demanding days in Portugal, Paul Seixas had his answer. For his first race of 2026, the 19-year-old leader of Decathlon CMA CGM Team finished second overall at the Volta ao Alg...

Lidl-Trek’s long-term Classics roadmap is no longer a rumour whispered in development meetings. It is an internal plan. And at its centre stands 23-year-old Czech champion Mathias Vacek. Vacek has made it clear that the American WorldTeam sees him as the future focal point of its cobbled campaign, b...

Seven months away from racing is rarely the recipe for an immediate general classification result. Yet on his first outing since the 2025 Tour de France, Kevin Vauquelin delivered exactly that, finishing fifth overall at the 2026 Volta ao Algarve in his debut appearance for INEOS Grenadiers. More te...

Two sprint opportunities, two near misses, and no victory to show for it. On paper, that reads like a slow start to the season for Jasper Philipsen. Inside the Alpecin - Premier Tech camp, however, the tone is considerably calmer. “If Jasper had been in Kaden’s wheel, he would have won the first sta...

Isaac del Toro was an enormous talent as an under-23 rider but this wasn't an unknown to the World Tour teams. As said recently, Jonathan Vaughters tried to sign the Mexican rider early on; but UAE Team Emirates - XRG were also on the youngster's heels. Now a proven elite, he is one of the world's v...

Thomas Gloag has had a fantastic exhibition at this year's Volta ao Algarve, riding to fifth place on the final stage to the Alto do Malhãe where he rode together with the best climbers in the race. After three seasons with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, the Briton has joined Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Q36...

Ever since Luke Plapp turned pro in 2022, it was clear that the peloton was witnessing a great climber. Under the radar, the Team Jayco AlUla rider has come close to winning on Jebel Hafeet - where Isaac del Toro and Antonio Tiberi battled for the UAE Tour win - however his top level is rarely seen....

The UAE Tour saw Antonio Tiberi and Isaac del Toro fight for the overall win, a battle that was ultimately won by the UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider. Tiberi had his very best legs on the two key mountain stages but it was not enough to hold back the Mexican, whom he compared to Tadej Pogacar.  The Ba...

Former WorldTour professional and current head coach of the Costa Rican national cycling team, Andrey Amador, is in the hospital following a frightening high-speed crash. The cycling legend was leading a training camp when he suddenly lost control of his bike, suffering head trauma and multiple inju...

Tom Pidcock has, like in 2025, started his season off with great form, but was unable to take much benefit from it. It took seven race days but the leader of Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team has taken his first victory in the season and has been able to final raise his hands in celebration after a f...

After years of brutal, climbing-heavy routes, the fastest men in the professional peloton finally have a World Championship to circle on their calendars. Despite recent rumors of a massive artificial hill being built in the United Arab Emirates, the UCI has officially confirmed that the 2028 battle...

Almost 18 months after appointing him to spearhead a new performance direction, INEOS Grenadiers have ended their collaboration with Mehdi Kordi. Respected journalist Daniel Benson reports on his SubStack that Kordi left the British WorldTour outfit last week, despite still being listed on the team’...

The Tour des Alpes Maritimes debuted a brand new one-day format this season, and it delivered a thrilling battle for the punchy climbers. Former French national champion Paul Lapeira showed perfect timing and incredible strength to take the win, rewarding his Decathlon CMA CGM team for their hard wo...

The 2026 UAE Tour has officially concluded, and Isaac del Toro has won the GC after showing huge dominance. He successfully defended his overall lead during the final stage in Abu Dhabi, securing the biggest general classification victory of his young career. Del Toro had a fantastic and highly succ...

Remco Evenepoel traveled to the Middle East with high hopes of winning the overall GC of the UAE Tour, but he was far from doing so. While the Belgian star easily won the individual time trial, he could not keep up with the best riders on the steep mountain finishes, losing badly to Isaac del Toro a...

The 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games are still a couple of years away, but the cycling world is already buzzing with anticipation. While official details remain closely guarded, retired professional cyclist and LA local Phil Gaimon claims to have received a leaked version of the road race route. Accor...

Another day with three different menus. The United Arab Emirates, the Algarve and Andalucia gave us one more time almost eight hours of cycling, full of nuances, some suspense and excitement right up to the final pedal strokes. At the UAE Tour we had another day raced at high speed. Remco Evenepoel...

The final stage of the Volta ao Algarve delivered excitement and tested the GC contenders to the maximum. João Almeida and Oscar Onley weren't able to bring in the results they hoped for in the Alto do Malhão, but both of them have shown a very high level which is a great sign for the months to come...

The Volta ao Algarve 2026 concluded this Sunday with a decisive fifth stage in which Juan Ayuso had to defend the yellow jersey. The route featured a double ascent of the Alto do Malhão,  the final 2.6-kilometre climb at 9% average, where the Spaniard covered every move and went on to win the stage...

Stage 5 of the Volta ao Algarve is always a difficult day as the peloton goes through the Alto do Malhão and the surrounding hills; but Lidl-Trek has done a perfect job. The team protected Juan Ayuso is a stage that was attacked hard; and the Spaniard sealed the overall win with a stage win atop the...

The Tour du Rwanda has taken to the road this Sunday, the 22nd of February, but the highlight of the day was not related to the competition itself. A traffic accident which included a caravan vehicle has led to the death of two spectators who were on the side of the road.  The organization of the ea...

Paul Lapeira has taken the victory at the Tour des Alpes Maritimes, an important triumph for Decathlon CMA CGM Team who continue to hold strong momentum in a month of February where they have taken several meaningful wins.  The start of the race, with some of the race's toughest climbs, was quite ha...

Stage 5 of the Vuelta a Andalucia was the only one that had a tough finale where the main GC contenders could make the difference, and it was used by Tom Pidcock. The Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team rider has taken the first win of his season in Llucena; whilst Spanish national champion Iván Romeo...

Jonathan Milan closed out the 2026 UAE Tour in dominant fashion, powering to victory on the final stage in Abu Dhabi and underlining Lidl-Trek’s sprint authority across the week. “It’s really nice to end this UAE Tour with this victory. Last year was pretty close to this – Merlier anticipated a huge...

The 2026 season's first month of racing has already concluded and with that, we have also taken a closer first look at the new faces in professional peloton; the Modern Adventure Pro Cycling. And no matter what were your expectations of this project's innaugural races, the debut has objectively spea...

Professional cycling is currently dominated by a few exceptionally wealthy teams. For squads with smaller budgets, competing for the biggest prize in the sport - the yellow jersey at the Tour de France -often feels impossible. However, Jonathan Vaughters, the manager of EF Education-EasyPost, wants...

Isaac del Toro has confirmed overall victory at the 2026 UAE Tour, sealing the red jersey after seven days of racing built around one decisive mountain strike on Jebel Hafeet. The 22-year-old rider from UAE Team Emirates - XRG finished the seven-stage race in a total time of 21:10:30, holding a 20-s...

Isaac del Toro has secured overall victory at the 2026 UAE Tour as Jonathan Milan claimed the final stage in a high-speed sprint at Abu Dhabi Breakwater. The general classification was never seriously threatened on the flat closing day, but the pace remained relentless from start to finish. The open...

The defining rivalry of this era may revolve around Monuments, but according to Philippe Gilbert, one of cycling’s five-time Monument winners, Tadej Pogacar will never start Paris-Roubaix as the outright favourite. Not because he lacks the engine. Not because he lacks the skill. But because his seas...

A late crash in the final metres at the Classic Var has forced Simone Velasco out of the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes, dealing an early setback to the XDS Astana Team’s French campaign. Velasco crashed in the closing metres of Classic Var while positioned to contest the sprint, leaving him unable to del...

For almost two decades, Geraint Thomas built a career on measurable precision. Power numbers, race plans, marginal gains. His success was tangible, calculated and, above all, in his own hands. Now, as Director of Racing at INEOS Grenadiers, that equation has changed. “My success depends on how other...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We preview sta...

The Tour des Alpes Maritimes will be taking place on the 22nd of February in 2026, and is back to a one-day race format, which will give the climbers and classics specialists the chance to take a prestigious victory in the packed French February calendar. We preview the race ahead.  The Tour des Alp...

From the 18th to the 22nd of February, there will be simultaneous racing across the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula: the Volta ao Algarve and the Vuelta a Andalucía, both taking place in the south of Portugal and Spain, respectively. Here is when and where to watch the races live and on TV, i...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. Here is when and where to watch the...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 7, which is expecte...

For the second time this week at the UAE Tour 2026, Remco Evenepoel was forced to explain rather than celebrate. Dropped again on the decisive slopes of Jebel Hafeet, the Belgian admitted in a post-stage interview with VTM Nieuws that his level in the mountains simply was not where it needed to be....

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought out early-season stage-races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists all to fight for results and work on their f...

Over the course of years, Matej Mohoric built for himself a reputation of a fearless attacker (and descender) who often finds the most unlikely paths to victory. However in 2016, he was still much of a greenhorn with just a 2013 under-23 world title to his name. And to add to that, a shocker came wi...

The path to the highest level of professional cycling is rarely easy, but Matteo Malucelli has faced more obstacles than most. After surviving sudden team closures and spending years fighting in the lower divisions, the Italian sprinter finally secured his WorldTour chance with XDS Astana last year....

The step up to the WorldTour level can be a massive shock for young cyclists, but Jorgen Nordhagen is already proving he belongs with the elite. The 21-year-old Norwegian from Team Visma | Lease a Bike delivered a highly impressive ride on the famous slopes of Jebel Hafeet, fighting against some of...

The cycling world is always looking for the next big star. Young riders often face massive pressure to win immediately when they turn professional. However, French talent Paul Magnier is taking a different approach. Even though many people see him as a future champion, the young rider prefers patien...

The early races of the season are always a crucial test for Grand Tour contenders to see where they stand after a long winter of training. At the 2026 Volta ao Algarve, INEOS Grenadiers brought a powerful roster featuring two new stars - Kévin Vauquelin and Oscar Onley - as well as Thymen Arensman t...

Soudal - Quick-Step is starting a new chapter. For years, Ilan Van Wilder worked hard as a helper for his famous teammate, Remco Evenepoel. But now that Evenepoel has moved to Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, the 25-year-old Belgian is finally stepping up as a main leader. As he takes on this big responsibi...

Antonio Tiberi faced the final mountain test of the UAE Tour wearing the race leader's red jersey. However, the Bahrain - Victorious rider could not withstand a powerful surge from Isaac del Toro on the steep slopes of Jebel Hafeet. Although he lost his overall lead to the Mexican talent, the young...

Another day with three different menus. The United Arab Emirates, the Algarve and Andalucia gave us one more time almost eight hours of cycling, full of nuances, some suspense and excitement right up to the final pedal strokes. The start of the stage brought some action in the formation of the brea...

Victor Campenaerts has built a reputation in professional cycling for pushing limits. On the bike, that has meant Hour Record attempts, relentless breakaways and an engine that rarely seems to empty. Off it, apparently, it once meant devouring 17 pancakes in a single sitting. The story surfaced via...

Stage 6 of the UAE Tour was won by Isaac del Toro, who has given UAE Team Emirates - XRG another victory in 2026 and provisionally confirmed the overall classification. His attacks on Jebel Hafeet were enough to distance Antonio Tiberi, who completely cracked in the final kilometers.  The final moun...

Race officials play a central role in shaping each stage of the UAE Tour, issuing formal decisions that can affect individual results, team strategies and the general classification. This rolling jury and fines report documents all official rulings released during the UAE Tour 2026, including penalt...

Paul Magnier backed instinct over comfort on stage 4 of the Volta ao Algarve, launching early into a stiff headwind to secure his second victory of the week and further underline his growing authority in fast finishes. After a controlled day that ended exactly as expected in Lagos, the Paul Magnier...

Paul Magnier claimed Stage 4 of the Volta ao Algarve 2026 with a composed and powerful sprint in Lagos, delivering victory for Soudal - Quick-Step after a long, controlled day for the peloton. The breakaway was brought back with 25 kilometres remaining, and from that point the outcome felt inevitabl...

Jason Tesson delivered a perfectly timed sprint to win the third edition of Classic Var, taking victory in Brignoles after a tense chase brought back the day’s breakaway inside the final kilometres. The Classic Var came down to a fast, slightly rolling finale after 176.6 kilometres of racing entirel...

Tom Crabbe of Team Flanders - Baloise sprinted to a surprise victory on Stage 4 of the Vuelta a Andalucía in Pozoblanco, prevailing after a tense finale that briefly threatened Ivan Romeo’s grip on the yellow jersey. The 166-kilometre stage from Montoro had been controlled for much of the afternoon...

Crashes, illness and withdrawals are an unavoidable part of any stage race, and the UAE Tour is no exception. From wind-affected finales and high-speed sprints to decisive time trials and mountain stages, the opening race of the WorldTour season often places riders under immediate physical stress. T...

Isaac del Toro has turned the UAE Tour on its head on Jebel Hafeet and will start the final stage in the red jersey. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider began Stage 6 21 seconds down on Antonio Tiberi. After the summit finish, that advantage has swung the other way. Del Toro now leads the general clas...

The UAE Tour, Volta ao Algarve and Vuelta a Andalucia have been providing quite a lot of spectacle this week; whilst in the previous two we're having many of the world's best climbers in competition and showing their current form. Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin have discussed the evolution of Pau...

Isaac del Toro delivered the defining ride of the race on Stage 6 of the UAE Tour 2026, attacking on the slopes of Jebel Hafeet to win solo and take the overall lead from Antonio Tiberi. The 168km stage from Al Ain to the summit finish had been billed as the decisive day for the general classificati...

After the 'Opening Weekend', the peloton will begin the semi-classic period in Belgium, consisting of many non-World Tour cobbled classics. The first of which is Le Samyn, a race with plenty history, notable winners, and with Wout van Aert at the start line this 3rd of March. We take a look at its s...

The UAE Tour finishes atop the climb to Jebel Hafeet today, which will decide the overall classification. Whilst Antonio Tiberi and Isaac del Toro will fight for the overall win; Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe will have their own sub plot as they will chase the stage win with Remco Evenepoel, in hopes...

Joao Almeida admitted he expected to concede time on Stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve, but not on the scale that ultimately reshaped the general classification in Vilamoura. The Portuguese rider finished the 19.5-kilometre individual time trial in 22:36.428, over 40 seconds slower than stage winner F...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 6, which is expecte...

The Tour des Alpes Maritimes will be taking place on the 22nd of February in 2026, and is back to a one-day race format, which will give the climbers and classics specialists the chance to take a prestigious victory in the packed French February calendar. We take a look at its startlist.  The Tour d...

The anti-doping case involving the father of Marc Soler has taken a further turn after Spanish outlet Ciclo21 published a detailed reconstruction of events dating back to August 2023. Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Jaume Soler Serrano, an amateur cyclist and the father of the UAE Team Emir...

Milano-Sanremo is the first monument of the season and every year it attracts a luxurious startlist. However, less and less there are sprinters present as it has become a race more guided towards the classics specialists and even the climbers. A few riders, as is the case with Arnaud de Lie, are not...

There's no denying that the nowadays cycling has two main superstars who stand above everyone else: Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. Since the 2023 Lombardia, only Van der Poel's teammate Jasper Philipsen has been able to triumph in a Monument (Milano-Sanremo 2024), massively helped the Dutch...

The Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC) was born during the darkest days of cycling history, yet its principles stand to this day. Back in 2007, the doping scandals were at their heights with entire teams pulling out of the Tour de France amidst doping revelations. In shadow of these events, an org...

For Oliver Naesen, the start of the season is always a little bit sluggish as the early races' main purpose is a preparation for the cobbled classics. Yet while the road captain at Decathlon CMA CGM is only getting into the operating temperature, his colleagues have already secured five victories ea...

When Pauline Ferrand-Prévot announced her return to road racing after a successful mountain bike career, there was a notable scepticism as to whether the Frenchwoman could indeed fulfill her goal of winning the Tour de France Femmes against the younger generation of racers in the three-year horizon...

The stage 3 individual time trial of Volta ao Algarve delivered many surprises and disappointments, but the podium result of Jakob Söderqvist was certainly among the positive performances. The Swedish time trialist spent a long time in the race hot seat, only to be overtaken two-time world champion...

Quinn Simmons has never really not been viewed as a big talent since his junior days which included a world title in 2019 and a move straight to WorldTour with Lidl-Trek the following season. But since then, the immense potential of Simmons only showed in glimpses. That was until 2025. It appears so...

Soudal - Quick-Step will be a largely unrecognizable team in 2026. Without Remco Evenepoel, a lot of the focus immediately shifts back to the Classics where the Belgian team will rely heavily on its new star recruit Jasper Stuyven to immediately deliver performances which will revive the good old Wo...

Another day with three different menus. The United Arab Emirates, the Algarve and Andalucia gave us one more time almost eight hours of cycling, full of nuances, some suspense and excitement right up to the final pedal strokes.  A very fast start in the Middle East, with riders attacking from the pe...

A rider attacks on a descent. He disappears from sight. The peloton assumes he has bridged across. The race rolls on. An hour and a half later, his team finally learns that he had not gone clear at all, but crashed off the road. That was the account given by Mattias Norsgaard on the Forhjulslir podc...

Filippo Ganna underlined his status as one of the world’s premier time trialists on Stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve, powering to victory in Vilamoura with a performance he insisted was measured rather than maximal. The Italian stopped the clock in 21:53.663 for the 19.5-kilometre individual time tri...

February in the Var means one thing. Punchy climbs, twisting coastal roads and a peloton packed with riders looking to light up the early European calendar. The third edition of Classic Var returns with a startlist that blends WorldTour pedigree, proven French puncheurs and ambitious ProTeam talent...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We preview sta...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought out early-season stage-races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists all to fight for results and work on their f...

The 2026 Classic Var will be taking place on the 21st of February and will be the first of two one-day races in a weekend of full-on racing in France. It is a race that is more suited to the sprinters this year, and should see a new rider add its name to the palmarès. We preview the race ahead.   Th...

Juan Ayuso may have finished second on Stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve, but the Spaniard left Vilamoura with something far more important than a stage trophy: a firmer grip on the yellow jersey. Beaten only by Filippo Ganna in the 19.5-kilometre individual time trial, Ayuso delivered a ride that bot...

Filippo Ganna claimed victory on Stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve, but it was Juan Ayuso who delivered the decisive blow in the battle for the yellow jersey on the 19.5-kilometre individual time trial in Vilamoura. Ganna stopped the clock in 21 minutes 53.663 seconds, averaging 53.5 km per hour to se...

Ivan Romeo’s grip on the 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia tightened on Stage 3, as Movistar Team delivered a textbook defence of the yellow jersey to keep their leader clear of danger with two days remaining. After claiming overall leadership with his Stage 2 victory, the Spaniard faced his first real test i...

Milan Fretin powered to victory on Stage 3 of the Vuelta a Andalucia, emerging from a high-speed bunch sprint in Lopera after the longest day of the race resolved into a compact and controlled finale. The 180.9 kilometre stage from Jaen had been animated for much of the afternoon by an early four ri...

Jonathan Milan did not just win Stage 5 of the UAE Tour. He solved it. After doubling up in the desert with another dominant sprint, the Lidl Trek fast man revealed that this was a finish he had studied, remembered and corrected from last year. “Last year here I finished second or third, and I thin...

Stage 5 of the UAE Tour provided another bunch sprint and although it proved to be more chaotic than the previous day, Jonathan Milan still came to the forward and confirmed his status as the man to beat on the sprint to Dubai.  The start of the pan-flat stage wasn't as contained as usual, as we've...

On the 1st of March the peloton takes on the Drome Classic. The French race is the second in a weekend that features two explosive one-day races in the Ardèche region. We take a look at its startlist.  The race is younger than its weekend sibling the Faun-Ardèche Classic, however it has a similarly...

The Faun-Ardèche Classic is the first of two one-day races in the southeast of France that take place in the weekend that begins on the 28th of February. The race is a good test for climbers and classics specialists ahead of a key period of the spring. We take a look at its startlist.  The race was...

The 2026 Giro d'Italia is gaining shape more and more. After the route was revealed earlier this winter, we now know the 23 teams that will take to the start in Bulgaria later on in May. Four wildcards looked virtually assured whilst the fifth has been given to Unibet Rose Rockets, who missed out on...

Pablo Lastras, Movistar Team sports director, reflects in an interview with Diario AS on several angles of the season, group management, the state of modern cycling, and the situation of various riders in the team. He speaks about Enric Mas and Fernando Gaviria. “Yes, the truth is we’ve been a very...

The UAE Tour had Remco Evenepoel and Isaac del Toro at the startlist and because of this, the overall win in the World Tour's second stage-race would be highly presitigious to anyone. Antonio Tiberi is now in the lead instead, and if he is able to secure the title, it might just be the win he needed...

Oscar Onley had his first big test with INEOS Grenadiers this Thursday afternoon and it was a successful one. Whereas Kévin Vauquelin and Thymen Arensman were not on the cameras often, the Scottish climber performed amongst the best on the Volta ao Algarve's first summit finish and is within range o...

Mathieu van der Poel looks to spring again with a hunger for monuments. The Dutchman enters the new season intent on raising his arms once more at Milano–Sanremo, the Tour des Flandres and Paris–Roubaix, three races that have defined his career and will likely pit him again against Tadej Pogacar as...

Today, Tuesday, the UCI decided to strip Marc Soler of his overall victory in the 2026 Vuelta a Murcia. The Spanish cyclist from UAE Team Emirates - XRG had initially been declared the winner after the cancellation of the second stage of the race. The Vuelta a Murcia (class 2.1) was scheduled to hav...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought-out early-season stage races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists, all to fight for results and work on their...

Less than 24 hours after cracking badly on Jebel Mobrah and surrendering the UAE Tour lead, Remco Evenepoel offered a surprisingly calm explanation for his collapse. “The air conditioning in my room wasn’t working,” he said before the start of Stage 4 in conversation with Sporza, as he searched for...

Stage 2 of the Volta ao Algarve delivered fireworks. The Alto da Fóia was climbed, and three riders stood out from the rest. Paul Seixas, at age 19, has taken his first pro win on the same climb where Tadej Pogacar did the same seven years ago. The Decathlon CMA CGM Team rider is the new race leader...

The Volta ao Algarve 2026 general classification heads into stage 3 wide open. We take a look at the start times and order for the race's decisive time trial, in which Paul Seixas, Juan Ayuso, and João Almeida will fight for the yellow jersey. Juan Ayuso starts the time trial in yellow, level on ti...

The 2028 World Championships parcours have been a topic of discussions ever since Tim Merlier made a half-joking comment about UAE authorities building an artificial mountain in the expected racing site in Abu Dhabi. Only for these rumours to start to turn out to be true. And suddenly, the dream of...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 5, which is expecte...

INEOS Grenadiers arrived to the Volta ao Algarve with an incredibly strong lineup featuring the likes of Filippo Ganna, two-time Tour de France stage winner Thymen Arensman and the Grand Boucle's breakthroughs Oscar Onley and Kévin Vauquelin. There is another new face in the team, in the car behind...

Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team has been in the center of attention this past winter thanks to its transfer activity which saw climbers Eddie Dunbar, Chris Harper and Tom Gloag join the Swiss ProTeam in a hunt for top placings on the UCI ranking. Next to the other signings, Gloag stands out as a lo...

Back at intermarché - Wanty, Rune Herregodts was one among the team's protected riders. But over conformity, the Belgian time trialist chose the challenging environment at UAE Team Emirates - XRG where he suddenly finds himself at the opposite end of the feeding chain. "They hired me to let others w...

Team Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe has undergone a turbulent development in last few seasons and it feels like Daniel Martínez was a bit spat out by the rapid recyclation of GC riders with the aim to find the chosen one who will win the team the desired Tour de France. However we shouldn't forget that...

The second stage of the 2026 Volta ao Algarve delivered the expected show on its final climb to Fóia with Paul Seixas victorious ahead of Juan Ayuso and Joao Almeida. Heading into tomorrow's time trial, the trio sport a healthy advantage over their GC rivals with only Oscar Onley and Matthew Riccite...

A day with three different menus. The United Arab Emirates, the Algarve and Andalucia gave us almost eight hours of cycling, full of nuances, suspense and excitement right up to the final pedal strokes. Let’s start in the Middle East. Today’s stage at the UAE Tour was flat. Flat but tough. 2,360 met...

Paul Seixas is an incredibly talented rider and at age 19, he is already one of the most prominent names in the peloton. Often he is compared to Tadej Pogacar, and perhaps that will be even more the case after today as the Frenchman has taken his maiden pro win in the exact same mountain where the W...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We preview sta...

The Vuelta a Andalucía 2026 has a new overall leader: Iván Romeo. The Movistar Team rider claimed stage 2 with a very strong display, after a very early attack together with Andreas Leknessund that proved to be a perfect tactic to put himself in position to win the race.  The Spanish champion jumpe...

Stage 2 of the Vuelta a Andalucia was another difficult day with some climbs of different difficulty spread throughout the day. Ideal terrain for a GC raid, and that is exactly what happed. Iván Romeo took the win for Movistar and is the new race leader.  The stage began with a relatively flat profi...

Stage 4 of the UAE Tour delivered another bunch sprint, albeit one that was harder to reach due to the breakaway that held its own throughout the stage and threatened to take the stage win. Everyone at Lidl-Trek had to work to get the win, including its GC rider Derek Gee; but Jonathan Milan deliver...

Stage 4 of the UAE Tour delivered exactly the tension it had promised. After a day of relentless pace across 2,360 vertical metres, the outcome hung in the balance until the final kilometre before Jonathan Milan imposed order with a dominant sprint in Fujairah. The Italian timed his move perfectly,...

Burnout has become one of the loudest words in cycling’s early 2026 conversation, and Team Visma | Lease a Bike has increasingly found itself at the centre of it. Following the shock retirement of Simon Yates, the earlier career pause of Fem van Empel, and the long shadow of Tom Dumoulin stepping a...

At 36, Pello Bilbao is not chasing headlines. He is chasing clarity. The Bahrain - Victorious rider begins 2026 determined to reconnect with his best level, but with a perspective shaped as much by experience as ambition. After a quiet year by his standards, early signs suggest the foundations remai...

Maxim Van Gils has moved to calm the storm surrounding the sprint crash that ended his Clasica Jaen campaign, confirming that he holds no anger towards Jan Christen and that the two have already been in contact. Speaking in an interview published by Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, Van Gils addressed bo...

Stage 3 of the 2026 UAE Tour has blown the general classification wide open, with the first summit finish on Jebel Mobrah delivering decisive time gaps and a dramatic shift in control. Antonio Tiberi now leads the race overall after his commanding ride on the climb, while former race leader Remco Ev...

Stage 3 of the 2026 UAE Tour delivered a decisive reckoning on the brutal slopes of Jebel Mobrah, reshaping the general classification and turning the race on its head. On the steepest ramps of the previously untested climb, race leader Remco Evenepoel cracked heavily, conceding significant time, w...

After spending part of last week at the Winter Olympics in Milan as a supporter of Slovenia’s athletes, Primoz Roglic has now returned to the demands of his own 2026 campaign. Roglic confirmed via Instagram that he has arrived in Tenerife, sharing images from Mount Teide as he begins an altitude tra...

For more than a decade, Tiesj Benoot has measured his seasons in cobbles, bergs and white gravel. This year, for the first time in his professional career, the Spring will unfold without him. Benoot has undergone surgery for a lumbar disc herniation after back pain disrupted his winter preparation....

On Wednesday, Thymen Arensman's 2026 campaign got underway with a participation at the Volta ao Algarve. Thus, the 26-year-old's fourth season with INEOS Grenadiers gets underway with eyes on the Giro d'Italia and later this summer also the Tour de France. "I'm mainly focused on the Giro," Arensman...

Sacha Modolo has publicly defended Jan Christen following the Swiss rider’s disqualification from Clasica Jaen, pushing back against the jury decision that reshaped the podium and left Maxim Van Gils seriously injured. Christen was disqualified after deviating across the road in the sprint for third...

The scale of the upcoming Hollywood biopic on Lance Armstrong has already marked it out as the most ambitious retelling of cycling’s most controversial era to date. With Austin Butler set to play Armstrong and a package that sparked a competitive bidding war among major studios, the project is bein...

This week's update features points scored in one-day races Clásica de Almería, Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior and Figueira Champions Classic, as well as stage races Tour of Oman, Vuelta a la Región de Murcia and Tour de la Provence. The Asian road race continental championships are also included. Yo...

Despite some complications, the 2026 season is beginning to pick up speed for Visma | Lease a Bike who have claimed their second triumph of the year at Vuelta a Andalucia thanks to Christophe Laporte. The 33-year-old Frenchman has been through many hardships in recent years and to start the season o...

The third stage of UAE Tour led to a drastic shake-up of the general classifcation. The pre-stage leader and favourite Remco Evenepoel lost good two minutes as well as his position in GC while Isaac del Toro fought the steep gradients formidably to finish within a hand's reach of the winner Antonio...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve got underway with a sprinters' day in Tavira. In the final, Paul Magnier was fastest and secured his opening victory of the season as Jordi Meeus and Pavel Bittner completed the podium. Tomorrow, the Portuguese race continues with a stage up the Fóia climb (8.8 km at 6.2%),...

For young riders arriving at Team Visma | Lease a Bike, the shock is rarely the workload. It is the proximity. For Francesco Baruzzi and Fabio Segatta, both 18 and newly embedded in the Dutch team’s development structure, the first weeks have brought something far more formative than watts or kilome...

The UAE Tour organizers can be more than pleased with Jebel Mobrah's competitive debut. The fearsome mountain road into the western part of Hajar Mountains delivered an awesome spectacle with many favourites underestimating its steep gradients while others like Isaac del Toro took a more conservativ...

One day, three races, many nuances, expectations and perspectives. In the United Arab Emirates, in Spain and in Portugal, we had routes, profiles and victories to suit every taste. But let’s take a closer look at each of them to understand what led to these outcomes. At the UAE Tour, we saw a breaka...

The heat and the brutality of the climb to Jebel Mobrah was expected to make victims today at the UAE Tour, but few would've expected it to be Remco Evenepoel, who had shown his best legs the day prior and entered the queen stage in the race lead.  The Belgian put on staggering climbing performances...

On the 21st and 22nd of February the peloton in France will take on two more important race days. The first of two early-season weekends in the region will see the peloton take on the Classic Var and Tour des Alpes Maritimes.  As always, you can always follow the 2026 Classic Var and Tour des Alpes...

Antonio Tiberi started off his season strong and at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana had a level that saw him finishing fourth in the overall classification. His form continued to improve and at the UAE Tour we are perhaps seeing the highest level that the Italian has ever reached.  “It’s amazing. T...

Tom Pidcock made his move away from INEOS Grenadiers and became a born-again stage-racer. The Briton finally proved his potential to fight for Grand Tour results at the 2025 Vuelta a España; and after his maiden podium on a three-week race, he now aims to be able to do the same at the Tour de France...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought out early-season stage-races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists all to fight for results and work on their f...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We preview sta...

Stage 1 of the Volta ao Algarve was a bunch sprint and it featured a golden opportunity for all the fastest men in the peloton. The Soudal - Quick-Step leader Paul Magnier was the strongest on the opening day and is the first leader of the race.  The stage, flat in nature, began with a breakaway of...

Stage 1 of the Vuelta a Andalucia was a chaotic day, with several climbs destroying the peloton early on in the day; whilst later on a second peloton joined the head of the race. Christophe Laporte won the reduced bunch sprint amongst those who managed to go through the day's climbs within the front...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We preview the...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought-out early-season stage races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists, all to fight for results and work on their...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We preview sta...

The queen stage of the UAE Tour was expected to be a showdown between Remco Evenepoel and Isaac del Toro. It ended up being a completely different story, and the race leader dramatically cracked on the climb to Jebel Mobrah. The reasons as to why that was, were not known at the time by Red Bull - BO...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 4, which is expecte...

Cycling is a growing sport, more and more the main figures get more exposure and are also more commonly recognized on the road. One of the sport's great advantages is the fans' exposure to the top riders, however that has become excessive for some, who have begun experiencing consequences. Because o...

When Tim Heemskerk walked away from Team Visma | Lease a Bike earlier this winter, the reaction across the peloton was immediate and uneasy. The coach most closely associated with Jonas Vingegaard’s rise from raw talent to double Tour de France winner was suddenly gone, with little public explanatio...

For the first time in more than a decade, Adam Yates is racing through the peloton without his twin brother alongside him. Simon’s sudden decision to step away from professional cycling at the start of 2026 sent shockwaves through the sport, not least because it came just months after one of the def...

Altitude camps are designed to bring control and structure to a rider’s build-up. Instead, Wout van Aert and his teammates have been forced into constant adaptation as winter weather repeatedly disrupted Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s Sierra Nevada training camp. Heavy snowfall, freezing temperatures a...

Few young riders earn trust inside a WorldTour superteam before expectation catches up with them. Fewer still manage to do it while racing with composure, humility and an instinct for responsibility. That is the space Isaac del Toro now occupies inside UAE Team Emirates - XRG as his role continues t...

Patrick Lefevere was back in familiar surroundings at the UAE Tour this week, invited by Soudal - Quick-Step and enjoying a race he has followed for years. This time, though, the dynamics around him had shifted. Lefevere was no longer in charge, his former team was adapting to life without its long-...

Oscar Onley’s first race in INEOS Grenadiers colours arrives quietly, by design. The 23-year-old will make his debut for the British team at the Volta ao Algarve this week, but he is determined that Portugal is about learning, not proving. “I’m just looking forward to getting stuck into some racing...

The 52nd edition of the Volta ao Algarve begins on Wednesday with a compelling personal storyline at its centre: the first competitive reunion between Joao Almeida and Juan Ayuso since their split at UAE Team Emirates - XRG. After previously sharing leadership duties within the same team, the two no...

Czech rider Pavel Bittner arrives at the Volta ao Algarve, which starts this Wednesday, to begin his 2026 season. It’s a later start than usual, but the Team Picnic PostNL rider has his goals clearly defined. “I’m starting a bit later than usual at the Volta ao Algarve, and the main objectives, just...

This week's update features points scored in one-day races Clásica de Almería, Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior and Figueira Champions Classic, as well as stage races Tour of Oman, Vuelta a la Región de Murcia and Tour de la Provence. The Asian continental championships are also included. You can check...

Cofidis has stepped down to ProTeam level this year and has been having a rough start to the season. Several riders are currently out of action, and that includes Damien Touzé who has been left in serious condition after his crash at the Tour of Oman.  The French team already has a victory in the 20...

Red Bull–BORA–Hansgrohe continues to invest in developing young talent, staying true to its DNA. Beyond the World Tour team, everyone knows the German structure includes an Under-23 squad, Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe Rookies, as well as one of the best junior teams in the world, Grenke–Auto Eder. Throug...

The last weeks in the world of cycling have provided plenty action on and off the bike, with Remco Evenepoel lighting up every race he is present; whilst on the opposite side Team Visma | Lease a Bike see obstacles after obstacles before their leaders even begin their season. Johan Bruyneel and Spen...

After Isaac del Toro won the opening stage of the 2026 UAE Tour, today was all about the race against the clock. And who better than Remco Evenepoel to lay down a statement in only the second WorldTour event of the season. If there were any doubts, the Belgian rider from Red Bull – BORA – Hansgrohe...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought out early-season stage-races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists all to fight for results and work on their f...

The 2026 Volta ao Algarve will take place from the 18th to 22nd of February, and as is the case every year, will be one of the most fought out early-season stage-races. It features stages for the sprinters, climbers, timetrialists and classics specialists all to fight for results and work on their f...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 3, which is expecte...

Elite men’s cycling has never struggled to talk about pain, fatigue or physical injury. Mental health is different. It is usually implied, softened or avoided altogether. That is why Dylan van Baarle speaking openly about seeking professional mental health support carries weight well beyond his own...

The 2026 Vuelta a Andalucia is going to take place between the 18 and 22nd of February, in the southern region of Spain where the stages are always either hilly or mountainous. This edition is no exception, with a set of stages that is set to make for some chaotic and tactical racing. We take a look...

When Geraint Thomas stepped into his new role as Director of Racing at INEOS Grenadiers, it was never intended as a ceremonial appointment. For those still racing under his leadership, the value lies in something far more practical. “I think he’s just going to hold that perspective of what it’s actu...

Jan Christen has issued a public apology following one of the most contentious moments of the early 2026 road season, after his disqualification from Clasica Jaen and the sprint crash that left Maxim Van Gils facing months away from racing. Christen’s statement came as scrutiny around the incident c...

While attention has been fixed on the UAE Tour in the Middle East, UAE Team Emirates - XRG are simultaneously rolling out one of their strategic line-up in Portugal. At the Volta ao Algarve, the Emirati squad arrive with clear leadership, local strength and multiple layers of contingency. At the cen...

For the first time since his brutal season-opening crash, the conversation around Mads Pedersen has shifted away from deadlines and damage control. Instead of asking how quickly he can get back, Danish expert Lars Bak believes the injury has removed something equally significant. Pressure. Speaking...

Stage 2 of the UAE Tour has changed the overall classification quite a bit and the time trial specialists managed to put in time into their rivals. With Remco Evenepoel at the start line, all others could only try to limit their losses, but it was difficult in a day where the World Champion was on f...

Remco Evenepoel was expected to win at the UAE Tour's time trial however he didn't expect to put in such large time gaps on his rivals perhaps, taking into consideration that the riders had only 12 kilometers on the menu. He is now in the race lead and has the space to race more conservatively if he...

Stage 2 of the UAE Tour has created bigger differences than expected. The 12-kilometer time trial through the desert in Al Hudayriyat proved to be more difficult than expected and the overall classification has suffered meaningful changes; with Remco Evenepoel taking the stage win and overall lead. ...

Paris-Roubaix is taking place already within two months and there we expect to see another battle between Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. Whilst at the Tour of Flanders no-one is expected to be at a similar level, the 'Hell of the North' provides a more open race typically, although last yea...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike have been enduring a few difficult months and the situation is becoming difficult financially speaking as well. Whilst the Dutch team does not have the risk of coming to an end, it is finding more issues battling with UAE Team Emirates - XRG or conducting signings such as R...

Jan Christen has, since turning pro, been at the forefront of several controversies; but perhaps this Monday the UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider has found himself in the center of the biggest yet. After having caused Maxim van Gils' crash at the end of the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior, he has been di...

Stage 2 of the UAE Tour brings the race’s first decisive GC test, with a 12.2-kilometre individual time trial around Hudayriyat Island expected to establish the early hierarchy among the overall contenders. With the official start order now confirmed, the time trial is clearly split into two phases:...

Thomas Pidcock identified a single moment of misjudgement as the turning point in his Clasica Jaen challenge, after missing the decisive move while adjusting clothing ahead of the first gravel sectors. Rather than pointing to legs or form, Pidcock was clear that the race slipped away because of posi...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We take a look at its startlist.  Th...

The stage 1 of the 2026 UAE Tour sent a clear signal that the battle for the general classification could be more intense than many had anticipated. In an uphill finish that pushed the pure sprinters out of their usual spotlight, Isaac Del Toro delivered an impressive performance and imposed himself...

After starting the 2026 season in outstanding form, winning the overall classification of the Setmana Ciclista Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, where she also claimed the points classification, Demi Vollering has become a major talking point behind the scenes in the international peloton. The reason? A...

At 25 years of age, Baptiste Veistroffer is taking steady steps in what is still a young professional career. This year, he rides in the colours of Lotto-Intermarché, having been one of the riders who secured a contract following the team merger. Before fully committing to cycling, he was a triathle...

Jordan Stolz is currently the undisputed star of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old American has dominated the speed skating events, winning gold in the 500 meters on Saturday to add to his earlier victory in the 1000 meters. However, while he is rewriting history on the ice, Stolz has reveal...

Last season began with a victory in his very first race of the year and ended with his departure from the team that had been his home for the past five years. Dutch rider Daan Hoole left the American Lidl-Trek to join the French Decathlon CMA CGM Team. The decision, however, was far from simple. Spe...

The cyclocross season is approaching its end, and Bart Wellens has taken the opportunity to assess the competitive winter. The former Belgian professional rider, now 47, analysed what unfolded in the discipline and made one thing clear: Mathieu van der Poel once again imposed his authority and, if h...

After an impressive second place at the 2024 Tour de l’Avenir, the young Spaniard Pablo Torres, then only 19, stepped out of anonymity and into the spotlight. His displays in the mountain stages left plenty of people open-mouthed and, although he lost the overall classification to Joseph Blackmore,...

Today marked the start of the second stage race of the 2026 WorldTour calendar: UAE Tour 2026 is on the road. Adam Yates, winner in 2020, Remco Evenepoel in 2023 and Lennert Van Eetvelt in 2024 are all present at the race, which this year does not feature a rider to defend the title won last season....

Remco Evenepoel does not enter the 2026 UAE Tour stage 2 time trial needing to prove that he is fast against the clock. Three consecutive world titles, Olympic gold and a long list of dominant time trial performances have already settled that debate. What is more intriguing ahead of stage 2, howeve...

The original plan for Jorgen Nordhagen’s 2026 season was clear. The UAE Tour was meant to be the first race in which he would line up alongside Jonas Vingegaard, beginning a year designed around learning directly from Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s established GC leader. Vingegaard’s withdrawal from th...

Jan Christen has been disqualified from Clasica Jaen Paraiso Interior after a dramatic sprint for third place ended with Maxim Van Gils being forced into the barriers. Christen crossed the line in third place behind winner Tim Wellens and second-placed Thomas Pidcock, but his result was quickly over...

Tim Wellens described his victory at Clásica Jaén as the outcome of an early decision that demanded discipline rather than aggression, after choosing to commit long before the race reached its natural point of tension. For Wellens, the defining element of the day was not the final margin, but the fa...

Tim Wellens claimed victory at Clasica Jaen Paraiso Interior 2026 after a long-range solo move that proved just strong enough to withstand a reduced but belated chase on the final sterrato sectors around Ubeda. The race was ridden at relentless speed from the outset, with no stable breakaway allowed...

Stage 1 of the 2026 UAE Tour was meant to be procedural for the general classification contenders. Instead, it handed Remco Evenepoel an immediate deficit and reframed the opening days around damage control and response. The Belgian stayed deliberately out of the late chaos, prioritising safety on a...

Jonathan Milan’s 2026 UAE Tour was thrown into uncertainty on the opening day after a heavy late crash abruptly ended his chances of contesting the stage win and left Lidl-Trek anxiously assessing their lead sprinter’s condition. The Italian, who won on the same finishing straight last year, went do...

Stage 1 of the UAE Tour turned out to be more important for the overall classification than most would've expected. Whilst on paper a stage for the sprinters, it has seen Isaac del Toro sprint to victory in Liwa Palace and already gather 10 seconds on Remco Evenepoel.  It is the result of a perfectl...

The UAE Tour has gotten off to a thrilling start, with the GC riders coming to the front right on day 1, on a stage where the main favourite Jonathan Milan crashed. Isaac del Toro benefitted from the chaos that followed,

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 2, which is expecte...

Stage 1 of the UAE Tour was almost pan-flat but featured a slight uphill finale, and the climbers made good use of it. Whilst Remco Evenepoel found himself blocked, Isaac del Toro stormed to victory in the uphill sprint and immediately took the race lead.  Despite reports of strong cross-tailwinds,...

The Clasica Jaen Paraiso Interior takes place on the 16th of February and is one of the most unique races in the calendar. The Spanish one-day is the most similar all-year long to Strade Bianche and provides an unique opportunity to race in the gravel and steep hills right before the Italian classic...

Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar are likely set to have another uncontested cobbled classics campaign, as both of their rivals find themselves injured at the time being. Whilst Wout van Aert's concerns are over his form, Mads Pedersen fears that he may not even take part in the Tour of Flander...

The Clasica de Almeria proved to be a calm race in its majority, however the finale became increasingly hectic with several crashes taking place in the peloton. Whilst Arnaud de Lie was not involved in one of them, a particularly hard shoulder bump against Lewis Askey, who was leading of Biniam Girm...

Soudal - Quick-Step is looking to reclaim its status as the kings of the cobblestones in 2026. To do so, they have not only signed one of the best classics riders in the world but also completely overhauled his preparation. After a difficult season affected by crashes and inconsistent form, the Belg...

Tragedy has struck the world of cycling this afternoon. 18-year old Italian rider Francesco Mazzoleni was struck by a driver whilst out on a training ride on Sunday the 15th of February and has passed away due to his injuries.  Mazzoleni was a rider for the Gooddshop Yoyogurt team and was hit by a v...

Joshua Tarling is starting his 2026 season at the UAE Tour this Monday and will be a big favourite for the race's time trial alongside Remco Evenepoel. Before the start of his season, INEOS has shared a video where the Briton provided insight into his past season where he's had a lot of new experien...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview stage 1, which is expecte...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe faced a difficult reality in 2025. Despite having a big budget, the German team struggled in the spring classics, realizing that money does not guarantee results on the cobbles. After a disappointing campaign, the management decided they needed an experienced leader to gu...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike enters the 2026 spring classics campaign with a very different look. Following the departures of key pillars like Tiesj Benoot, Dylan van Baarle, and sprinter Olav Kooij, the Dutch squad is looking for new protagonists. One of the riders expected to fill that void is Axel Z...

Axel Laurance has finally released months of frustration. On Sunday, the 24-year-old French puncheur crossed the finish line alone in Arles to win the third and final stage of the Tour de La Provence. It was his first victory since the Tour of Norway in May 2024, and his first since joining INEOS in...

Isaac del Toro is stepping into the spotlight. With defending champion Tadej Pogacar absent, the young Mexican will lead UAE Team Emirates - XRG at their home race, the UAE Tour. While he admits he has spoken to the World Champion about how to win here, he is keeping those secrets to himself. Del To...

Adam Yates is preparing to race the UAE Tour this week, but most people want to talk about his twin brother. Simon Yates shocked the cycling world in January by retiring as the reigning Giro d'Italia champion. According to Adam, his brother is now enjoying a life without the extreme pressure of prof...

Tom Pidcock has spent most of his January at altitude in Chile and has start off his racing campaign in 2026 with a bang at the Vuelta a Murcia. Although the second stage was ultimately cancelled, on the opening day he survived the crosswind chaos and put in a strong finale. He is going to be the pr...

Talent scouting is becoming vital to any big team's future plans. That is why, as of 2026, every single WorldTour team (except the newcomer Uno-X Mobility) had established an official under-23 development structure with INEOS Grenadiers and Movistar most recent to join the party last winter. However...

From the 16th to the 22nd of February, the peloton will be in the Middle East for what is the second World Tour stage-race of the season: the UAE Tour. The race, characterized by its flat stages and hot weather, will once again host some of the world's very best. We preview the race ahead.  The race...

The Clasica Jaen Paraiso Interior takes place on the 16th of February and is one of the most unique races in the calendar. The Spanish one-day is the most similar all-year long to Strade Bianche and provides an unique opportunity to race in the gravel and steep hills right before the Italian classic...

The UAE Tour starts this Monday and Remco Evenepoel will be the men with the most eyes on him. The Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe has talked about dealing with pressure and balancing the life on the bike with the outside; the race's route and his search for progress ahead of his return to the Tour de F...

The X2O Trofee Badkamers Trofee has ended today with round 8, the Brussels Universities Cyclocross which was won by Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and Michael Vanthourenhout respectively.  Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado won the women's race, the last big event of the winter - before the season ends next wee...

Stage 3 of the Tour de la Provence was once again a successful day for the early attackers, as the second breakaway in three days proved to be victorious. Out of them, Axel Laurance rode to victory for INEOS Grenadiers - a victory that was very much necessary after the defeat in the previous day's q...

The Clasica de Almeria provides an opportunity for the sprinters to perform and we have had quite the show this Sunday afternoon. NSN Cycling Team performed a perfect leadout and Biniam Girmay took the victory, the second of his season.  The 189-kilometer long race was shaped for the sprinters, with...

Racing at the top level is harder than ever currently in pro cycling, as said by many riders, including Cofidis' Sergio Samitier - who provides a different point of view when it comes to salary cap, the preparation required just to be part of the peloton, and how teams adapt to the domination of Tad...

Derek Gee has had a rough winter, a lot of it without a coach, in legal issues with Israel - Premier Tech and without a clear idea of what his future would look like. Fast forward into mid-February and the Canadian national champion in making his debut for Lidl-Trek, aiming for a result at the UAE T...

Whilst the rain and the snow, usually the biggest threats to cycling races during the winter months, did not fall; the usually sunny and fair-weathered coast of Murcia was being hit by incredibly strong winds over the past few days which have severely changed the outlook of the Vuelta a Murcia. Afte...

For cycling fanatics, it’s become a tradition. Cycling fans fill out countless fantasy pools — from popular platforms to local newspapers. It’s hours of puzzling fun. And CyclingUpToDate is not staying behind — the WorldTour Manager returns for its second edition! After a successful debut season, th...

UAE Team Emirates - XRG manager Joxean Matxin has provided an update on the health status of Ecuadorian national champion Jhonatan Narváez and has revealed that the classics specialist is the last missing piece in the team's Giro d'Italia lineup.  Narváez was the defending champion at the Tour Down...

The 2026 Clasica de Almeria will be taking place on the 15th of February this year, featuring a golden opportunity for the sprinters in the middle of the very busy Spanish early-season calendar. We preview the race ahead.  The Spanish one-day race was created back in 1988 and quickly it gained an in...

The 2026 Tour de la Provence will take place from the 13th to the 15th of February, giving continuation to the French stage-racing calendar and also returning to the mountains, where the race has in the past seen notable performances. We preview stage 3, which is estimated to start and finish at 11:...

The 2026 Clasica de Almeria will be taking place on the 15th of February this year, featuring a golden opportunity for the sprinters in the middle of the very busy Spanish early-season calendar. We take a look at its startlist.  The Spanish one-day race was created back in 1988 and quickly it gained...

Remco Evenepoel’s first month with Red Bull – Bora – hansgrohe has produced numbers that demand attention. Eight race days have yielded five victories, a 62.5 per cent win rate before the middle of February. Ok, so the level of competition has not mirrored what he will face in July, but the authorit...

Mathieu van der Poel is not only one of the most successful riders in modern cycling, but also the sport's entire history. In virtually every aspect, he is a gifted athlete who was born to be a professional cyclist, and he has revealed values of his regarding physiological data.  His rest heart rate...

Jarno Widar has wasted no time in showing the professional peloton what he is capable of. By sprinting to an impressive fourth place at the Figueira Champions Classic in Portugal, the 20-year-old Lotto-Intermarché rider confirmed the hype surrounding his move to the WorldTour. Following this explosi...

Taco van der Hoorn faces another long road to recovery. The Dutch breakaway specialist has been forced to undergo surgery on his knee, a decision that effectively ends his spring campaign before it truly began. On Friday, Lotto-Intermarché confirmed that the 32-year-old will miss both the Classics a...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe has confirmed its seven-man roster for the upcoming UAE Tour, leaving no doubt about their ambitions for the second WorldTour stage race of the season. The German team is sending a squad entirely built around Remco Evenepoel, who arrives in the Emirates with the clear obj...

UAE Team Emirates - XRG has launched into the 2026 season with a level of dominance that suggests they have no intention of giving up their spot at the top of the cycling world. With twelve victories already in the bag before mid-February, the machine is humming. However, the scariest prospect for t...

Imanol Erviti is starting his third season as a Sports Director for INEOS Grenadiers. After a nineteen-year career in the peloton, spent entirely with the Movistar structure, the Spaniard has found a new home in the British team car. Speaking to MARCA, he opened up about the major changes at the Bri...

António Morgado has taken his second consecutive victory at the Figueira Champions Classic. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider won under different circumstances than last year, however his spotless performance saw him be the strongest on the day once again.  Since starting his season, he hadn't finis...

The Tour de la Provence moved forward despite the freezing conditions at the summit finish of the Montagne de Lure, and it was America's very own Matthew Riccitello who took the win on what was his first in-race climbing challenge after joining Decathlon CMA CGM Team.  “It couldn’t have gone better....

UAE Team Emirates - XRG have taken their second win of the day (atfer Marc Soler won the GC at the Vuelta a Murcia) at the Figueira Champions Classic, as defending champion António Morgado has soared to a second consecutive win in Figueira da Foz - this time around beating Alex Aranburu in a two-rid...

Matthew Riccitello has started his time with Decathlon CMA CGM Team perfectly and this afternoon he won stage 2 of the Tour de la Provence. The queen stage saw INEOS Grenadiers in control, but the French team ultimately had the strongest rider on the day.  The stage took place as initially planned,...

Stage 2 of the Vuelta a Murcia has been cut and neutralized. After the strong winds completely blew the opening stage apart, after most of it was already cut; even worst consequences have surged from the second day of racing.  Stage 1 of the race was cut to a mere 83 kilometers, and the race neverth...

This Monday, the 16th of February, the peloton will take on the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior. The four-year old race has been won by Tadej Pogacar, this year it has Tom Pidcock as its headliner, and next year it aims for no less than cyclocross World Champion Mathieu van der Poel at its startlist. ...

When a team reshapes the competitive order of the peloton, success alone is never the full story. In cycling, dominance inevitably drags history back into view. That is the context in which analyst Thijs Zonneveld believes scrutiny of UAE Team Emirates - XRG is both logical and unavoidable. Not beca...

The Vuelta a Murcia will be taking place from the 13th to the 14th of February, having a two-day format this year. The race provides stages for the sprinters, classics specialists and climbers to build on their form towards bigger goals this spring, whilst providing reputable wins for those who vent...

The 2026 Tour de la Provence will take place from the 13th to the 15th of February, giving continuation to the French stage-racing calendar and also returning to the mountains, where the race has in the past seen notable performances. We preview stage 2, which is estimated to start and finish at 11:...

On the 14th of February, the peloton will takle Portugal's first pro race in 2026, and its most prestigious one-day race: the Figueira Champions Classic. The race comes as a precursor to the Volta ao Algarve, providing opportunities for the climbers, sprinters and classics specialists all at once. W...

Remco Evenepoel is one of the most talented and prominent riders of this generation and it's a career that was very much influenced by his time at Soudal - Quic-Step. His father Patrick Evenepoel talked about the reasons for departure, the different sensations and the hardships that followed his Dec...

Antonio Tiberi rode to fourth place last week at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, a strong start to the season where he was able to show good form. Having raced directly against Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel, he has described how the two tend to attack with some interesting insight.  “I have gr...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is a place in which performance is above everything, but where experience is also very valuable. Hence, the presence of Wilco Kelderman is key to the development of young riders and also for support of its leaders - someone who follows Jonas Vingegaard closely and praises h...

Oliver Naesen's opened his 10th season with Decathlon CMA CGM Team this Friday with a start at Tour de la Provence, his only preparation race before the lengthy spring Classics block. Yet over the decade, both the team and Naesen have changed. The French formation stepped out of it's own shadow than...

At just 21, Diego Pescador has already shed the rookie tag at Movistar Team. After stepping up to the WorldTour in 2025, the Colombian starts his second season with greater confidence and the backing of a team that sees in him the return of the pure climber profile. Early-season results support that...

George Bennett's been through more than one hardship in 2025, but this year seems to be an opportunity to write a new chapter. Heading into the New Zeland's National Championships race, Bennett was not the biggest favourite, however the race played out in his favor and thus the 35-year-old will get...

Those who followed the Tour of Oman saw it last week: Nairo Quintana flashed his class in the two mountain stages, after almost two years without major results. However, according to Movistar Team sports director Maximilian Sciandri, that does not mean the Colombian will regularly fight for wins aga...

Remco Evenepoel got off to a flying debut with Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, winning every race he participate in so far, however the first serious test is yet to come. The Spanish races definitely weren't enough to truly challenge the Olympic champion, but UAE Tour will have a whole different startl...

In the coming days, there will be a flurry of one-day races in the Iberic peninsula which will host many of the world's best: The Figueira Champions Classic, Clasica de Almeria and Clasica Jaen Paraiso Interior. Here is where and when to watch tem live and on TV, including in the United States of Am...

On the 14th of February, the peloton will takle Portugal's first pro race in 2026, and its most prestigious one-day race: the Figueira Champions Classic. The race comes as a precursor to the Volta ao Algarve, providing opportunities for the climbers, sprinters and classics specialists all at once. W...

The Vuelta a Murcia 2026 opened on Friday, with an unusual stage. Strong winds forced the organizers to cut more than half the route. The race settled on an 83-kilometre course that encouraged attacks from the gun - and UAE Team Emirates - XRG did not miss a beat. The victory went to Marc Soler, the...

Tom Pidcock made his season debut this afternoon at the Vuelta a Murcia and has shown a very high level right from the start. However, he could only fight for a place on the podium as he and all other teams were outplayed by UAE Team Emirates - XRG.  The stage was cut due to the strong winds in the...

French team Van Rysel Roubaix have been very active in the first races of the French calendar, but today they have struck gold. In 2025 they did not take a single win, and at the Tour de la Provence this Friday they have soared to victory with Arnaud Tendon, who won the stage after a breakaway that...

The winds blew very hard today at the Vuelta a Murcia and a stage that featured only a few small climbs completely destroyed the peloton and has proved to be decisive for the overall classification. Marc Soler took the stage win and race lead after UAE Team Emirates - XRG mastered the chaotic race s...

Tim Wellens is entering his fourth season with UAE Team Emirates - XRG and remains as motivated as ever. The Belgian, who is now carrying his country's jersey into the new year, has talked about his motivation, goals, racing with Tadej Pogacar and how money is no longer the key factor behind UAE's s...

INEOS Grenadiers is starting the Tour de la Provence today with high ambitions, having Dorian Godon and Axel Laurance to fight for the hilly and sprint stages; whilst on paper Carlos Rodríguez is a major contender for the overall classification. However, this will largely depend on how his form sits...

Victor Langellotti signed with INEOS Grenadiers in 2025 and proved to be a successful transfer for the British team. Last season he proved to be able to fight for victories at a high level, which grants him more opportunities this year. He is looking forward to that, and also teaming up with riders...

The 2026 Tour de la Provence will take place from the 13th to the 15th of February, giving continuation to the French stage-racing calendar and also returning to the mountains, where the race has in the past seen notable performances. We preview stage 1, which is estimated to start and finish at 11:...

The 2026 Tour de la Provence will take place from the 13th to the 15th of February, giving continuation to the French stage-racing calendar and also returning to the mountains, where the race has in the past seen notable performances. We preview the race ahead.  The French race was first held in 201...

The Vuelta a Murcia will be taking place from the 13th to the 14th of February, having a two-day format this year. The race provides stages for the sprinters, classics specialists and climbers to build on their form towards bigger goals this spring, whilst providing reputable wins for those who vent...

The Vuelta a Murcia will be taking place from the 13th to the 14th of February, having a two-day format this year. The race provides stages for the sprinters, classics specialists and climbers to build on their form towards bigger goals this spring, whilst providing reputable wins for those who vent...

Tom Pidcock has raced the Tour de France on three occasions, the most recent being in 2024 where there was an internal dispute with INEOS Grenadiers, and he ultimately didn't reach his best form and abandoned the race prematurely. It is a race where he does not hold too many good memories from the p...

INEOS Grenadiers have revealed their lineup for the 2026 UAE Tour and it is a team that mostly consists of young riders that the team is giving opportunities to. However, the British team can very well chase stage wins, as they make it to the Middle East with Joshua Tarling and Sam Welsford in their...

Wednesday was a busy day for the road cycling world champion Tadej Pogacar. While out on a 3-hour training ride on the coastline near Valencia, the Slovenian had an unpleasant encounter with one of his fans, a story he later shared with the rest of the world via his Strava post.  For most, the headl...

At 38 years old, Wout Poels rightfully belongs to the most esteemed racers in the peloton. After all, he carries experience of nearly two decades in the peloton. During that time, the Dutchman won two Grand Tour stages, a Monument, and witnessed up close Team Sky's most iconic era. But in what appea...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is not in a good spot at the moment. 2025 Giro d'Italia winner Simon Yates suddenly retired at the start of the season. Jonas Vingegaard's coach, Tim Heemskerk, also quit with immediate effect. Cian Uijtdebroeks terminated his contract early to join Movistar and injuries co...

XDS Astana had just made an impossible recovery in 2025 to successfully defend their position in WorldTour. Many would think the Kazakh team backed by Chinese bike manufacturer would now take foot off the gas for a moment to savour the success, but that's not the case. Instead, the team managed by l...

The 2026 season is an important milestone for INEOS Grenadiers as, after a nearly decade-long wait, the British super-team launched its own development team - the INEOS Grenadiers Racing Academy. And not only that, the pathway to WorldTour will become more straightforward than ever as Ineos will als...

There's no secret that EF Education-EasyPost have far to compete with the largest budgets in WorldTour. But the team of Jonathan Vaughters plays their part with honor, proving day after day that they still know how to pull off a trick or two. They have done that in the past with the 2012 Giro d'Ital...

INEOS Grenadiers' future seems brighter in 2026 then it did in previous years. Not only do the signings of Kévin Vauquelin and Oscar Onley carry the potential of taking the team back into contention in Grand Tours; but also the development of some of its own home-grown riders can bring the British t...

In an era where elite riders routinely change teams in search of marginal gains, better contracts, or fresh motivation, Mathieu van der Poel stands as a near-total outlier. While the modern peloton is defined by movement, his career has been defined by continuity. From his teenage years through to b...

Jim Ratcliffe is one of Great Britain's most influential figures, as he is the owner of INEOS. The British billionaire is a also an owner of the INEOS Grenadiers and the Manchester United football club; and his recent comments against the UK's immigrant population alongside false information has spa...

The Vuelta a Murcia will be taking place from the 13th to the 14th of February, having a two-day format this year. The race provides stages for the sprinters, classics specialists and climbers to build on their form towards bigger goals this spring, whilst providing reputable wins for those who vent...

The 2026 Tour de la Provence will take place from the 13th to the 15th of February, giving continuation to the French stage-racing calendar and also returning to the mountains, where the race has in the past seen notable performances. We take a look at its profiles.  The French race was first held i...

The 2026 Paris-Roubaix has been presented this morning in France and there are novelties heading into the 2026 edition. Whilst the course, unique and iconic, remains the same; the race will have a new name and will feature a set of teams that will be grabbing the spotlight and also making their debu...

The Volta ao Algarve is a race that features a whole array of big figures of professional cycling every year and one more is set to be present next week in southern Portugal. Oscar Onley will be making his debut in INEOS Grenadiers colours at the five-day stage-race.  According to journalist Daniel...

Tom Pidcock is starting off his 2026 season in Spain, at the Vuelta a Murcia, far away from many of the main faces in the peloton. Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team look for, in the more modest field, UCI points and victories to kick off its leader's season in the perfect way over the two-day stage-r...

Starting the new season at the Tour of Oman, Diego Ulissi is racing far from home but speaking with the perspective of a rider who has grown up alongside a rapidly changing peloton. Now one of the most experienced figures in the bunch, the Italian has seen training methods, career paths, and expecta...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s early 2026 storyline has been obvious from the outside: Remco Evenepoel arrives, wins immediately, and the team’s Tour de France project starts to look serious fast. What the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana revealed from inside the race convoy, though, is that the new stru...

The sudden departure of Tim Heemskerk has shifted from internal staff news to a wider point of discussion, as analysts begin to question what the timing of his exit says about Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s early-season stability. Speaking on the Kop over Kop podcast, former professional Bobbie Traksel...

The general classification picture at the 2026 UAE Tour has been reshaped again before a single kilometre has been raced. Giulio Ciccone will not start the race after falling ill, according to reports by Ciro Scognamiglio, becoming the latest high-profile GC contender forced to withdraw in the build...

After 37 race days, the numbers alone are stark. Soudal - Quick-Step remain without a win in 2026, the longest such wait at the start of a season since the team’s modern era began in 2003. For an organisation built on early momentum, it is unfamiliar territory. “This is not what we are used to,” CEO...

In the modern peloton, few riders carry the same aura of inevitability as Tadej Pogacar. His accelerations are measured, his dominance often explained through numbers, and his presence alone can force races into submission. Yet as the Spring Classics approach once again, Mathieu van der Poel is offe...

For a rider whose popularity now stretches far beyond cycling, moments of quiet are increasingly rare. Sometimes, even basic courtesy becomes negotiable. That tension was laid bare in a candid Strava post shared this week by Tadej Pogacar, after what he described as an uncomfortable encounter with a...

Adam Yates admitted he was left with no choice but to race aggressively on the final stage of the Tour of Oman, as his bid to overturn the general classification came up short on the decisive slopes of Jebel Akhdar. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG leader finished fourth on the stage and secured third ov...

As Dave Brailsford continues his quiet but unmistakable re-engagement with INEOS Grenadiers, those working inside the structure are beginning to articulate just how significant his return has been. “He has a huge influence in this team and is a leader of the project. He’s the person who pushes us to...

This week's update features points scored in one-day race Muscat Classic and stage races Volta Comunitat Valenciana and Etoile de Bessèges. A handful of national championships (such as Colombia and South Africa) and the Asian Championships are also included. You can check the previous UCI Rankings...

For Team Visma | Lease a Bike, the rivalry between Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel has never been about talent. It has been shaped by timing, circumstance, and a growing sense that fortune has repeatedly tilted one way. That frustration surfaced openly this week through the words of Visma spo...

For UAE Team Emirates - XRG, the UAE Tour has never been about novelty. It is about expectation. Three overall victories, ten stage wins, and years of dominance on home roads mean that when the Emirati squad unveil their lineup for the race, it is less a participation announcement and more a stateme...

Mathieu van der Poel was once again invincible to regular humans the past cyclocross season with an impressive 13 out of 13 record. In the final race of the winter, the Dutchman put his name in the history books with his eighth cyclocross world title. And the best news for Dutch fans is that even if...

The cyclocross season ended for many with the World Championships in Hulst on February 1st. That particularly applies for the men who have their road obligations which includes the entire podium from Hulst; Mathieu van der Poel, Tibor del Grosso and Thibau Nys. After a long winter programme, the pas...

Soudal - Quick-Step enters a new era in 2026, the era without Remco Evenepoel. While a large challenge, this is also the opportunity some of the team's climbers starved for. And among them stands out Valentin Paret-Peintre. One of the lightest riders in the peloton at mere 52 kilograms, the Frenchma...

The list of Tadej Pogacar's palmares is already astounding at the age of just 27. The Slovenian phenomenon can win Grand Tours, hilly classics, on cobbles, doesn't fear echelons nor reduced sprints. The only discipline where he lacks something something on the best in the world is timetrialing where...

For a brief moment on the steepest ramps of Green Mountain, the Tour of Oman looked like it might not go the way of Christian Scaroni. When Adam Yates launched his expected acceleration on the decisive climb, Scaroni was caught on the wrong side of the move, distanced just enough to place his overal...

Jasper Philipsen has revealed his 2026 spring schedule, and it reads like the calendar of a rider no longer content with being labelled just a sprinter. The Belgian will again build his campaign around a dense block of Flemish one-day races, with Milano-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix standing out as the...

When Jonathan Vaughters admits that EF Education–EasyPost were not the strongest financial bidder for Ben Healy, he is not celebrating clever negotiation. He is acknowledging how fragile the team’s position has become in a WorldTour ecosystem increasingly shaped by super-team spending. The Irishman’...

As questions continue to swirl around Mads Pedersen’s chances of making a meaningful impact in the Spring Classics after his early-season crash, one former teammate believes it is far too early to rule him out. Jasper Stuyven, who spent nine seasons alongside Pedersen at Lidl-Trek, has urged caution...

From the outside, Remco Evenepoel’s early-season calendar could be misread as caution. A February stage race without Tadej Pogacar or Jonas Vingegaard on the startline is easily framed as convenience rather than confrontation. Inside Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, the thinking was the opposite. “We’re...

For Biniam Girmay, the start of his new chapter at NSN Cycling Team has been defined by clarity rather than baggage. After opening his season with a stage win and the points jersey at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, the Eritrean sprinter addressed the subject that has followed the team through...

After two difficult seasons at Movistar Team, Fernando Gaviria believes he has found the opportunity he needed to reconnect with his best form. The Colombian sprinter, who has raced for some of the most powerful teams in the international peloton, admits he reached a point of deep uncertainty, even...

At the very top of modern men’s cycling, dominance no longer brings just sporting control. It brings visibility, expectation, and a level of attention that never truly switches off. That reality was laid bare this week by Oliver Naesen, speaking in an interview with IDL Pro Cycling about what it is...

Christian Scaroni completed a decisive final-stage overhaul at the Tour of Oman, powering to victory on the brutal slopes of Jebel Akhdar to secure the overall classification on the final day. Starting stage 5 just four seconds behind overnight leader Mauro Schmid, Scaroni delivered when it mattered...

In an era shaped by marginal gains, pacing models and numbers on every stem, Matthew Riccitello is succeeding by swimming against the current. At 23, the American climber has already delivered one of the standout Grand Tour breakthroughs of recent seasons. Yet, his approach to racing would not look...

Five days after one of the toughest moments of his season start, Mads Pedersen is back on the bike. The Dane from Lidl-Trek, who last Wednesday hit the deck on stage 1 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2026, has begun his road back after a double injury that initially set off alarm bells. That...

For all the dominance modern cycling has witnessed in recent seasons, Peter Sagan believes the sport still needs something more than admiration for greatness. It needs opposition. Speaking recently to Tutto Bici Web, Sagan did not shy away from the scale of the challenge posed by Tadej Pogacar, sugg...

Greg Lemond, the only American to officially win the Tour de France, has opened up about the immense pressure and confusion that defined the peloton during the early 1990s. In a recent interview with Anthony Walsh, the three-time Tour champion described how the arrival of EPO transformed average rid...

This week's update features points scored in one-day race Muscat Classic and stage races Volta Comunitat Valenciana and Etoile de Bessèges. A handful of national championships (such as Colombia and South Africa) and the Asian Championships are also included. You can check the previous UCI Rankings u...

Marc Hirschi was Tudor Pro Cycling's star signing ahead of 2025, joining the team as a top-5 finisher on the 2024 UCI ranking with 9 professional wins to his name. And even though the 27-year-old Swissman didn't disappoint as he took up the leader role in a Pro-team, just a single win in Hirschi's r...

There are gifts you appreciate, and others you remember for a lifetime. For Aleix Espargaró, the latest clearly falls into the second category. The former MotoGP rider has added a true cycling gem to his personal collection: a bike used by Tadej Pogacar, finished with the unmistakable rainbow of the...

Remco Evenepoel’s 2026 schedule will remain unchanged despite his outstanding start to the season, which means it will not include two of spring’s Monuments Evenepoel has been heavily linked to during this winter in context of a possible debut: Milano–Sanremo and the Tour of Flandres. Red Bull - BOR...

XDS Astana Team’s 2025 reset was built on survival, not slogans. Under relegation pressure in the final year of the UCI three-year cycle, the team leaned into results wherever they could find them and trusted riders to rethink how they raced. Early 2026 suggests that approach has not only stuck, but...

The departure of Remco Evenepoel was always going to be framed as an existential moment for Soudal - Quick-Step. A generational rider left behind a team built around him, and the easy narrative wrote itself. Collapse. Irrelevance. An identity crisis. Quick-Step's Wilfried Peeters has no time for tha...

For a rider enjoying the most convincing winter of his career, Felipe Orts should be talking about momentum and continuity. Instead, Spain’s leading cyclocross figure finds himself confronting a far more uncomfortable reality. “For next season, I don’t have a team yet,” Orts said in conversation wit...

For most of the cycling world, the Winter Olympics sit firmly in the background once February training camps are done. For Primoz Roglic, they never do. His journey into elite sport began on the ski jumping hill long before it took him to the top of the Grand Tour podiums and Olympic time trial gold...

The observation was calm, but the message was unmistakable. Speaking in Oman, Nairo Quintana did not frame his concerns as nostalgia or complaint. Instead, he described a peloton that no longer behaves as it once did, one shaped by constant pressure and heightened tension. “Today, cyclists take too...

Timing, rather than intent, is what has drawn attention to the latest sudden departure at Team Visma | Lease a Bike. That was the reaction of former Danish national coach Anders Lund after it emerged that long-time performance coach Tim Heemskerk has stepped away from the team with immediate effect,...

From the 7th to the 11th of February the peloton takes on the Tour of Oman, the continuation of the Middle Eastern calendar, with a stage-race that features sprints, explosive days and steep mountains. We preview stage 5, which is estimated to start and finish at 07:15 and 11:00CET.  Meanwhile the T...

The numbers make for easy hype. Six wins from eight race days, a flawless opening block in new colours, and an immediate sense that Remco Evenepoel has landed at Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe exactly where he wants to be. On paper, his start to 2026 could hardly have been sharper. But for Jose De Cauw...

Modern Adventure Pro Cycling have been granted provisional membership of the Mouvement pour un Cyclisme Credible, with the organisation confirming that George Hincapie’s new team has been accepted following additional scrutiny linked to the past anti-doping admissions of senior figures within the pr...

Erlend Blikra delivered a perfectly timed sprint to win Stage 4 of the Tour of Oman, denying favourite Juan Sebastian Molano at the end of a relentlessly fast run to Sohar that averaged over 46 km/h. After more than 140 kilometres of flat, high-speed racing, the day unfolded exactly as expected on p...

Movistar Team has issued a medical update on Cian Uijtdebroeks following the crash he suffered during stage three of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, the race that marked his debut with the Spanish team. After further medical assessment and diagnostic tests, it has been confirmed that Uijtdebroeks...

Caja Rural – Seguros RGA will make history this season by lining up at the 2026 Tour de France. The Navarrese ProTeam has been awarded a wildcard for its first-ever appearance at the Grande Boucle, and since the announcement, the message has been clear. Every race now counts as part of the selection...

Winning again on home roads was never going to change Egan Bernal’s understanding of where he stands in the modern peloton. His second consecutive Colombian national road race title confirmed form and confidence, but it also prompted a dose of realism about what awaits when the season moves to Europ...

The words were not dramatic, nor delivered for effect, but they carried weight. Speaking quietly in Oman, Nairo Quintana acknowledged that time is catching up with him, admitting that the horizon is no longer open-ended. “We keep adding years and moving forward, and the experience is already there,”...

When the wildcards for the 2026 Tour de France were announced, ASO did justice by rewarding Caja Rural - Seguros RGA’s work and inviting the Spanish team to this year’s Grande Boucle. That also sparked criticism from those unmoved by meritocracy, arguing Unibet Rose Rockets should have been the team...

Cyclo-cross is a very particular discipline. In cycling, it is the only mainstream one whose season runs in winter. That, while it brings positives, also has a downside for riders like Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert, Thibau Nys and company. And that is the focus of former world champion Bart We...

Filippo Ganna looks towards 2026 as a season when he hopefully finally breaks through. It's not that the past year was a failure for Ganna, but his biggest win was a mildly-contested shortened Vuelta a Espana time trial in the streets of Valladolid. And he almost lost that one to Jay Vine as well. G...

In a Monday press release, we learn that the cycling's governing body UCI will no longer stand in the lead of anti-doping control as the role was delegated to the International Testing Agency (ITA) who will continue to will continue the prosecution of anti-doping violations and whereabouts failures...

The last couple months and even years of Wout Van Aert's have not always been a smooth ride for the 31-year-old Belgian. Illness and injuries have continuously taken their toll on the Visma star, most recently his crash during the snowy Zilvermeercross in Mol Exact Cross where Van Aert injured his a...

For a rider who has built his reputation on calm progression and steady learning curves, the past months landed very differently. Derek Gee arrived at his new team late, under a cloud of uncertainty, after a period that sat far outside the neat rhythms of training blocks and race calendars. The raci...

For all the talk about watts, leadership hierarchies and Grand Tour strategy, Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s 2026 project is quietly grappling with a different problem. Not how to make riders stronger, but how to stop them breaking under pressure. Modern cycling does not usually fail riders physicall...

For riders in the middle of the WorldTour food chain, timing is everything. Contracts, roles, race programmes and leverage are all dictated by when the market moves. Cristian Rodriguez found out the hard way what happens when a team collapse freezes that process entirely. Rodriguez was not an out-of...

Jonas Vingegaard’s already disrupted start to the 2026 season has been reshaped again, this time behind the scenes. Tim Heemskerk, the performance coach who worked closely with the Dane for much of his rise to the top of the sport, is leaving Team Visma | Lease a Bike after eight years. On its own,...

Inside Team Jayco AlUla, belief in Michael Matthews has long been matched by expectation. That is a fruit of the many years of work from the Australian and the new surge of motivation over the past few year, much of which stemming from his training with Tadej Pogacar.  Matthews has spent much of the...

Remco Evenepoel closed out the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana with control rather than drama, calmly neutralising a late tactical probe from UAE Team Emirates - XRG to secure overall victory and the first stage race Yellow Jersey of his Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe career. The final stage into Valencia...

Stage 6 of the 2022 Tour de France was a wake up call for American champion Quinn Simmons. Whilst he is currently one of the very best rouleurs in the world, he recalls the time he joined Wout van Aert in a brekaway at the Tour de France and found out the hard way how high the level at the top of th...

Enric Mas will be forced to adjust his season start after a training crash left him with a right-hand injury. The Mallorcan rider required hospital treatment following the incident, suffering a wound that needed stitches. Movistar Team has announced he will miss the UAE Tour. The Giro d’Italia does...

Wout van Aert has suffered an ankle fracture on the 2nd of January but has been steadily recovering and gaining form through a higher training load and now also an altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider is set to start his season at Omloop het Nieuwsblad, but he...

João Almeida returned to the podium at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana after a week defined by consistency and reliability. The Portuguese rider handled the fifth and final stage without issues, staying safely in the peloton to secure second overall, only behind Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-BORA-ha...

From the 7th to the 11th of February the peloton takes on the Tour of Oman, the continuation of the Middle Eastern calendar, with a stage-race that features sprints, explosive days and steep mountains. We preview stage 4, which is estimated to start and finish at 08:10 and 11:50CET.  Meanwhile the T...

Stage 3 of the Tour of Oman saw a difficult finish at the summit of Eastern Mountain and the overall classification has seen meaningful differences be created, much due to a late crash. In the midst of chaos, Team Jayco AlUla thrived, and Mauro Schmid took the stage win.  The started off with an une...

Remco Evenepoel has started his season at the Challenge Mallorca and 'played' with the competition at the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana and Trofeo Andratx, attacking when he felt like it and achieving comfortable wins in both. At the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana it was a much more competitive field tha...

Egan Bernal has won the Colombian road race national championships. The INEOS Grenadiers rider was able to complete a successful week of racing for the British team, after Brandon Rivera was victorious in the time trial.  The race, open to all teams, unfolded on a circuit with 4,366 metres of eleva...

Roger de Vlaeminck was known for his many victories in pro cycling, including many monuments and dozens of Grand Tour stage wins. Currently he is more often in the spotlight due to his strong opinions, often against the current best in the world such as Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. Recent...

As the sporting world turns its eyes to Milan and the Italian mountains for the ongoing 2026 Winter Games, a familiar debate has resurfaced in the background. For years, rumors of adding cyclocross to the Olympic program have circulated without result, but now, with the International Olympic Committ...

After a breakthrough 2025 season that saw him claim a bronze medal at the European Championships behind Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel, Paul Seixas is ready to take the next step. At just 19 years old, the French prodigy has established himself as the new leader of Decathlon CMA CGM Team, and he...

There are few traditions in cycling as sacred as the sprint on the Champs-Élysées. Yet, last summer, the Tour de France changed it. Inspired by the Paris Olympics, the organizers swapped the traditional circuit for three ascents of the cobbled Montmartre, turning the finale into a playground for pun...

Lidl-Trek’s 2026 campaign has suffered a devastating early setback. On the opening stage of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, Mads Pedersen was forced to abandon following a heavy crash, resulting in a fractured wrist and a broken collarbone. With the Dane's spring classics campaign now in jeopardy,...

Peter Sagan defined an era of cycling. With 121 career victories - including the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, a record seven Green Jerseys at the Tour de France, and an unprecedented three consecutive World Titles (2015-2017), amongst many others - he is royalty in the sport. However, his relati...

For the second consecutive year, Elisa Longo Borghini has secured the overall victory at the UAE Tour Women for her team. This triumph marks the third time in her career that Longo Borghini has claimed the general classification at this event. It was one of the team's earliest objectives in the seas...

A little over a year ago, a bpost delivery van was the source of one of Remco Evenepoel's darkest professional moments. A training accident in December 2024 involving an open door left the Belgian star with severe injuries, derailing his season for months. However, that same company has been unveile...

From the 7th to the 11th of February the peloton takes on the Tour of Oman, the continuation of the Middle Eastern calendar, with a stage-race that features sprints, explosive days and steep mountains. We preview stage 3, which is estimated to start and finish at 07:10 and 11:50CET.  Meanwhile the T...

The consequences of Mads Pedersen’s season-opening crash are more serious than first hoped, according to Bjarne Riis, who has delivered a stark assessment of what the injuries could mean for the Dane’s Spring Classics ambitions. “Mads on the other hand: this is critical. It’s a question of time, whe...

Jonas Vingegaard’s 2026 season has already been shaped by absence rather than action. A winter training crash in Spain, followed by illness, forced him out of the UAE Tour and quietly stripped his calendar back to just three races across the entire year. What remains is unusually narrow for a rider...

A major Hollywood bidding war has broken out around a biopic of Lance Armstrong, underlining how powerfully the most controversial name in cycling history still resonates far beyond the sport that cast him out. The project, which will see Austin Butler, famous for playing Elvis in the 2022 biopic, p...

Andrew August’s breakthrough week at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana ended in frustration rather than celebration, as a late crash in the decisive breakaway group brought his final stage hopes to an abrupt halt in Valencia. August had been part of the large, aggressive move that shaped the closing...

Raul Garcia Pierna emerged from a chaotic final kilometres in Valencia to take his first professional victory for Movistar, converting a day-long breakaway into a perfectly judged stage win on the closing day of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. With the general classification already firmly unde...

The 2026 Volta a Comunitat Valenciana concluded in Valencia with a finale that briefly hinted at disorder but ultimately confirmed the week-long hierarchy, as Remco Evenepoel safely brought home the general classification while a resilient breakaway claimed the stage. The final 94.7 kilometre run fr...

Niels Vandeputte delivered a commanding solo performance at the Krawatencross in Lille, riding clear through the latter half of the race to secure his fifth victory of the season and confirm his authority in the X2O Trofee. From the opening lap, Vandeputte looked fully at ease on the sandy circuit i...

Ewen Costiou detonated the final day of the Etoile de Besseges, winning the stage 5 time trial and tearing up the general classification to claim overall victory in one decisive ride. The 10.3-kilometre test to L’Hermitage proved decisive in a race that had remained tightly compressed through four s...

Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado delivered a decisive performance at the Krawatencross in Lille, riding solo from the opening lap to secure her first victory since the Dutch national championships and finally turn a run of near-misses into a clear win. Under bright conditions in the Lilse Bergen, Alvarado...

Elisa Longo Borghini delivered a decisive solo victory on Jebel Hafeet to win stage 4 of the UAE Tour Women and overturn the general classification, completing a controlled but ruthless takeover of the race on the final climb. After three sprint stages had left the overall standings tightly packed b...

Jonas Vingegaard riding the Giro d’Italia in 2026 is not being sold inside Team Visma | Lease a Bike as a deviation from their Tour de France obsession. It is being presented as the most credible way they can change the outcome of a rivalry that has stalled over the last two summers. The Tour has re...

Jonas Vingegaard’s disrupted start to the 2026 season has prompted public comment from one of Danish cycling’s most influential figures, with Bjarne Riis questioning how much information Team Visma | Lease a Bike have shared following the rider’s training crash and subsequent illness. Riis is caref...

Baptiste Veistroffer claimed a perfectly judged solo victory on Stage 2 of the Tour of Oman, attacking late from the day’s breakaway to hold off a charging peloton on the uphill finish at Yitti Hills. The 191-kilometre stage from Al Rustaq Fort was shaped early by an active five-rider move featuring...

Giulio Pellizzari does not talk like a rider trying to force his way into a hierarchy. Instead, his reflections reveal a young Grand Tour contender being shaped deliberately inside Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe’s wider long-term project. “I raced a lot alongside Roglic last year and learned many thing...

The physical consequences of Mads Pedersen’s opening-day crash at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana were clear within hours. Broken wrist. Broken collarbone. A season debut that ended almost as soon as it began. Less visible, but just as revealing, is how the former world champion is processing the s...

Ben Turner does not pretend to be a natural climber, but on the queen stage of the 2026 Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, the INEOS Grenadiers rider produced one of the most eye-catching performances of his stage racing career. On a brutally hard day that culminated with Remco Evenepoel’s decisive solo...

Michael Matthews is not talking about a single race, a bad sprint, or a frustrating season. He is talking about something deeper, something he believes is quietly reshaping how teams race, how riders are rewarded, and how cycling now looks to anyone trying to follow it. Speaking on the Roadman Podca...

For much of the past decade, Team Visma | Lease a Bike built their performance identity around a polarised training model. Long, easy volume paired with short, extreme intensity became a defining feature of the Dutch squad’s rise to the top of men’s stage racing. But from inside the peloton, that pi...

Lorena Wiebes has long proven to be the best sprinter in the women's peloton, in a league of her own compared to the rest. Despite her aura of invincibility, André Greipel has a seemingly simple solution to beat her: get rid of her before the line. The German sprint legend, now in his second season...

After a lot of uncertainty, the plan for Carlos Rodríguez’s 2026 season has finally taken shape. INEOS Grenadiers has confirmed that the Spanish rider will return to racing next week at the Tour de la Provence, with the goal of targeting both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España later this yea...

Fernando Gaviria has revealed that he was on the verge of retiring from professional cycling at the end of 2025, only for an offer from Caja Rural to pull him back from the brink. Speaking ahead of the Tour of Oman, the 31-year-old Colombian admitted that his exit from Movistar Team had left him con...

In the ultra-modern and exclusive world of road cycling, the door to the pro peloton usually slams shut if you haven't made it by your early twenties. There are no contracts waiting for 26-year-olds with full-time jobs. However, cyclocross remains a unique discipline where passion and a valid licens...

Michael Matthews has kicked off his 2026 season in perfect fashion, claiming his first victory of the year at the GP Castellón. With early form secured, the Australian veteran is turning his attention to the biggest prizes on the calendar, though he admits the path to success is complicated by the q...

American teenager Andrew August stunned the peloton on Stage 3 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, snatching victory from a late breakaway while the favorites hesitated behind. But for Chris Horner, the story of the day wasn't just the youngster's triumph, but the "knucklehead" tactics of Remco...

Few Grand Tour victories have relied so heavily on timing and perception as Sepp Kuss’s shock Vuelta a Espana win in 2023. It was a race where freedom mattered as much as form, and where being overlooked proved decisive. Two years later, Kuss is clear that the conditions which allowed that win no lo...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We preview...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and is the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. We preview stage 5, which is set to start at 13:15 and finish at 15:55CET.  One of the cornerstone early-season stage races on the...

Antonio Tiberi left the finish of Stage 4 at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana with a result that reflected both ambition and limits. Fourth on the stage after an aggressive finale, the Italian had briefly looked like the last rider capable of following Remco Evenepoel when the decisive attack was la...

Remco Evenepoel’s solo victory on Stage 4 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana was not just another tick in the win column. It was a statement of how decisively his new environment is already working, with the Belgian pointing directly to the collective backing he feels at Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe...

João Almeida did not dispute the strength of the winner, but he was clear that Stage 4 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana turned on what happened behind the race leader as much as what happened in front. After Remco Evenepoel attacked on the steep slopes of Cumbre del Sol and rode solo to victory,...

The general classification at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana was finally torn open on Stage 4, as Remco Evenepoel delivered a commanding solo victory on the race’s queen stage to move decisively into the driver’s seat for overall victory. After three days of tightly compressed standings and limite...

Michael Vanthourenhout brought the Superprestige season to a close with victory in Middelkerke, breaking clear in the final laps to take the day’s honours as Niels Vandeputte calmly rode his way to a second consecutive overall title. The race initially unfolded with uncertainty among the main conten...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We preview...

Stage 4 of the Etoile de Besseges was decided by a late surge rather than a full-scale sprint, as Joppe Heremans timed his move perfectly to take victory from a reduced peloton. An early three-man breakaway of Valentin Retailleau, Tommaso Bessega and Clement Davy animated much of the day, but never...

The father of Marc Soler has been handed an 18-month suspension by the Spanish anti-doping authority following an investigation into links with a disgraced former doctor from cycling’s US Postal era, according to a report by Escape Collective. Jaume Soler Serrano, an amateur cyclist and the father o...

Amandine Fouquenet signed off the Superprestige season with a commanding victory in Middelkerke, riding away from the field on the North Sea sand as the overall classification was decided behind her in dramatic fashion. From the opening lap, Fouquenet made her intentions clear. The French rider atta...

Michael Matthews is one of the riders Tadej Pogacar frequently trains with back in Monaco, and is one of the riders who knows best what the World Champion can do on the bike. He has detailed a recent training ride in which Pogacar beat his own climbing record on a mountain known for being the testin...

Over the past week a lot has happened in the world of cycling. Mads Pedersen has gotten injured whilst Jonas Vingegaard has also fell ill. Remco Evenepoel is the only rider in form who is able to battle with Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel;  but otherwise the gaps may grow to the best - as Jo...

Third day of the same, but the same story. Lorena Wiebes remains unbeatable at the UAE Tour Women, as she sprinted to victory on stage 3, another comfortable triumph which sees her 2026 remain spotless.  The stage was marked by the breakaway of five in April Tacey, Sonia Rossetti, Gaia Segato, Elisa...

From the 7th to the 11th of February the peloton takes on the Tour of Oman, the continuation of the Middle Eastern calendar, with a stage-race that features sprints, explosive days and steep mountains. We preview stage 2, which is estimated to start and finish at 07:35 and 12:20CET.  Meanwhile the T...

Victory number 7 of the year for UAE Team Emirates - XRG has been achieved this morning at the Tour of Oman, as Juan Sebastián Molano sprinted to victory at the end of the opening stage of the race.  The stage began with a difficult climb, used by Alex Díaz, José Luis Faura and Patryk Goszczurny to...

There were worrying scenes involving Cian Uijtdebroeks during Stage 3 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, after the Movistar rider went down in a crash around 50 kilometres from the finish. The incident itself was not shown live, with reports of the fall only emerging later in the stage. Uijtdebroe...

For a third year in a row, Jonas Vingegaard is having his spring plans mixed up and disrupted due to outside factors. This time around, the Dane has postponed his season start at the UAE Tour due to a crash he suffered recently combined with an illness. This means that most likely, he will only make...

What could have been a decisive stage win instead ended in frustration for Florian Vermeersch at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, after a dramatic Stage 3 finale saw victory slip away in the final metres. Vermeersch was the architect of the decisive move on the day, attacking with around twenty kil...

There's many ways to get in troubles with UCI's anti-doping bodies, and one of them is to miss the out-of-competition doping checks entirely. The 30-year-old Colombian star Martha Bayona learned the hard way as UCI issued an 18-month ban for the track sprinter with World Championship medals under he...

Even though Mathieu van der Poel is viewed as one of the two best (active) cyclists in the world, there are substantial problems suffocating the sport of cycling in the Netherlands. Race organizers already have their heads full of worries with growing problems of holding races, as the problems dont...

Women's cycling enjoyed a rapid boom in the last few years. The ladies were long overshadowed by their male counterparts who have been in the spotlight for a century. But that started to quickly shift, also thanks to a new generation of star riders Demi Vollering, Lorena Wiebes and Lotte Kopecky who...

The UAE Tour Women 2026 held its second stage on Friday with Lorena Wiebes confirming herself as the overlord of mass sprints with a back-to-back stage victory. However much of the focus also fell on the potential consequences of Marlen Reusser’s heavy crash. Stage 2 of the UAE Tour Women ended und...

It's taken a bit longer than Team Jayco AlUla have hoped for, but Mauro Schmid finally won their first race of 2026. The Australian team would've certainly preferred to tick off this box already on home soil during the Tour Down Under or Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, but ultimately the Swiss ch...

For Biniam Girmay, Stage 3 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana delivered a mixed verdict. The yellow jersey stayed on his shoulders after the hardest day of the race so far, but a stage that had been shaping up for a reduced sprint slipped away in the final kilometres. The day’s profile and the w...

What should have been a routine training ride turned into a prolonged and frightening ordeal for former Belgian road champion Jesse Vandenbulcke, who says she was chased for kilometres, intimidated, and deliberately hit by a car while preparing for the upcoming road season. The 2019 Belgian champion...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and is the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. We preview stage 4, which is set to start at 12:20 and finish at 15:50CET.  One of the cornerstone early-season stage races on the...

For Andrew August, Stage 3 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana was never supposed to end with him raising his arms. It was meant to be a day of work. A day of pulling. A day of covering moves for others. Instead, it became the moment his professional career properly began. The 20-year-old produced a...

Stage 3 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana was decided by a daring late move and a nervy run to the line, as Andrew August held off a charging peloton to claim his first professional stage victory. What had started as a fast transition day along the Costa Blanca was transformed at the Puerto de Tib...

Stage 3 of the Etoile de Besseges ended with a reduced sprint after a relentlessly aggressive final hour finally snapped back together inside the last 15 kilometres, setting the scene for Henri Uhlig of the Alpecin-Deceuninck team to take a dramatic first professional victory of his career. The stag...

Stage 2 of the UAE Tour Women saw Lorena Wiebes take another win, taking one of the most dominant and impressive sprint victories one could imagine.  The day's breakaway was formed by Petra Stiasny, Magdalene Lind, Sonia Rossetti and Sara Luccon. The quartet did manage to build a gap of several minu...

The strong winds forced organizers to neutralize the GC times on stage 2 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. The day featured a decisive time trial which instead was only raced for a stage win, to the detriment of Remco Evenepoel's chances of winning the race. Former teammate Yves Lampaert was one...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We preview...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and is the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. We preview stage 3, which is set to start at 12:15 and finish at 16:05CET.  One of the cornerstone early-season stage races on the...

Quinn Simmons is a rider who has achieved a lot in pro cycling but is eager to obtain a lot more. In conversation with Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe we learn that being a Paris-Roubaix winner is not one of the goals, that the cobbled classics are unlikely, but that the Olympic Games as a priority.  "...

Team Jayco AlUla played their cards to perfection today at the Muscat Classic, and have conquered the Middle Eastern one-day race with Mauro Schmid, who won in a two-up sprint at the end of the race in Oman.  Baptiste Veistroffer was the only rider who set off to attack early in the day to form a br...

Jonss Vingegaard was set to start his 2026 season at the UAE Tour, but this will not be happening. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider has suffered a crash and become ill in recent weeks, which has delayed his preparation and has made Team Visma | Lease a Bike opt to change his schedule in a season...

Wout van Aert suffered an ankle fracture now over a month ago in what ended up being his final cyclocross race of the winter at the Exact Cross Mol, but it hasn't changed his pland for the road much. The Belgian has travelled to altitude together with a few Team Visma | Lease a Bike teammates recent...

After last year’s podium, Tom Pidcock will return to the Ruta del Sol - Vuelta Ciclista a Andalucía aiming to be in the thick of the action again. The mountain-bike Olympic champion will lead Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling in the Andalusian race starting in less than two weeks on February 18 in Benahav...

The monuments this season are expected to follow the same trajectory as in 2025, with two riders having the odds stacked up on their side to win all five: Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. However, both lack two monuments in their palmarès, and Jens Voigt argues that both are unlikely to beat...

For Lotte Kopecky, the 2025 season has been a one long nightmare. The two-time road world champion struggled to find form, was held back illnesses and injuries, and ultimately won only three races - a stark contrast to her 16 triumphs year earlier. But that is hopefully long past for the Belgian sup...

Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel, Remco Evenepoel, Jonas Vingegaard, or Wout Van Aert. What do these men have in common is clear - their outstanding cycling talents. Especially the first two riders on this list are nothing short of a phenomenon worthy to be titled "genius". Jens Voigt has not bee...

This year's Volta a Comunitat Valenciana won't go down as an edition with very attractive parcours, but that didn't stop some of world's elite cyclists from signing up for the race. Given the kind parcours of the regular stages, a decisive verdict was expected in the stage 2 individual time trial, w...

Adam Yates enjoyed many productive years as a co-leader of Mitchelton-Scott alongside his twin-brother Simon, but it was only with his move to UAE Team Emirates - XRG that the Briton seems to have finally find his perfect role in the peloton. Owner of multiple big victories including individual triu...

The Muscat Classic and the Tour of Oman are raced in consecutive days and present the country of Oman with its opportunity to broadcast racing internationally. The races take place from the 6th to 11th of February and feature a wide array of courses that suit plenty riders. Here is where and when to...

Only days ago, Soudal - Quick-Step rider Gianmarco Garofoli was racing the AlUla Tour, where he was in a prominent position on the race's climbs. Right after the race, he travelled to Tenerife to begin an altitude training camp. He has revealed that this week he has been hit by a driver at high-spee...

It may seem like somewhat of a surprise but until very late in 2025, Brandon Rivera did not have a contract for 2026, despite his breakthrough season with INEOS Grenadiers. The British team ultimately decided to keep Egan Bernal's right-hand man on board for this season, and now at the Colombian nat...

From the 7th to the 11th of February the peloton takes on the Tour of Oman, the continuation of the Middle Eastern calendar, with a stage-race that features sprints, explosive days and steep mountains. We preview stage 1, which is estimated to start and finish at 07:35 and 11:50CET.  Meanwhile the T...

From the 7th to the 11th of February the peloton takes on the Tour of Oman, the continuation of the Middle Eastern calendar, with a stage-race that features sprints, explosive days and steep mountains. We preview the race ahead.  Meanwhile the Tour of Oman has grown since its debut in 2010 into one...

On the 6th of February the riders have got their first one-day race this season in the Middle East, and the only one at top level as well. A day before the Tour of Oman, the riders tackle the Muscat Classic, a hilly race which provides some extra action always before the main event. We preview the r...

The Muscat Classic and the Tour of Oman are raced in consecutive days and present the country of Oman with its opportunity to broadcast racing internationally. The races take place from the 6th to 11th of February and feature a wide array of courses that suit plenty riders. Here is where and when to...

Stage 2 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana saw Remco Evenepoel take the stage win, but this was not the topic that has been discussed throughout the peloton before, during and after the stage. The day's times were neutralized due to the strong wind on course, and this split the opinion of the rider...

Remco Evenepoel was the winner of the day at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, but at the same time perhaps the rider who has lost the most due to its neutralization. The Olympic, World and European time trial champion rode to victory in Spain, but it was only a mental win against his rival on a day...

Remco Evenepoel has won stage 2 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. The time trial on the second day of racing was always going to put the World Champion in the favourite position, however the times on the day were not counted as the strong wind on the road has meant that the times were neutralized...

Luxembourg is back in the spotlight, a nation that doesn't often see in the current peloton many victories at UCI level. Mathieu Kockelmann has taken his first pro win since joining Intermarché - Lotto, beating Dylan Groenewegen in a chaotic bunch sprint at the end of stage 2 at the Etoile de Bessèg...

Jay Vine has had a near perfect start to his 2026 season, having won the Australian time trial national championships and then right after the Tour Down Under. It was an eventful edition, with a stage win, a cut stage and a crash into a kangaroo which then saw him finish the race with a broken wrist...

Stage 2 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana is going to be an 17-kilometer long individual time trial that will be key for the outlook of the overall classification. Remco Evenepoel is the man to beat on this day - and we take a look at the start times and order.  The race will start off at 14:28 lo...

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Stage 2 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana has been neutralized due to the strong wind that is affecting the course. This means there will be a stage winner, but no gaps on what may have been considered the queen stage of the Spanish race.  The second day of racing would see Biniam Girmay in the ye...

Patrick Lefevere may no longer be running a WorldTour team, but he is still watching the peloton with the eye of someone who has spent decades studying what wins the biggest races. And when the subject turned to Wout van Aert in a recent appearance on a La Derniere Heure podcast, the former Soudal -...

No-one will know Simon Yates better than his twin brother Adam, and after the retirement of the Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider, his brother has spoken about the decision for the first time, sharing insight on the Giro d'Italia winner's lack of motivation to remain in the peloton.  It was a decision...

Stage 1 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana was marked by the crash of Mads Pedersen which has left him with two fractures and is jeopardizing his form for the spring classics. However the Dane was not the only rider to suffer from a fall on the opening day of the race, as INEOS Grenadiers' Tobias F...

Lorena Wiebes was the professional rider who has won the most in 2025, above even Tadej Pogacar, and she has kicked off 2026 in the very same way. After winning virtually all of her final races last season, the Dutch champion has raised her arms in glory in her first pro race of the new season at th...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We preview...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and is the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. We preview stage 2, which is set to start at 12:25 and finish at 16:15CET.  One of the cornerstone early-season stage races on the...

Mathieu van der Poel is more than just a generational talent, he is an historic figure in the sport of cycling alone. At age 31 he is now the male rider with the most cyclocross world titles and can still achieve more; whilst also being an absolute headliner everywhere he goes on the road, with mult...

It was revealed to CyclingUpToDate on Team Visma | Lease a Bike's media day that Bart Lemmen was on the lineup for the Giro d'Italia, with the '8' already decided. The Dutch rider rode it in support of eventual winner Simon Yates last year, and this time around he will be one of the riders backing u...

Milano-Sanremo on 21 March 2026 is the first Monument on the calendar, which means the real drift from winter to spring is approaching for us cycling fans. Between now and the Via Roma finish line, cycling offers a fast-moving run of racing that has started in Australia, cuts through the mud of cycl...

Bad news have hit the Lidl-Trek camp. Mads Pedersen has crashed towards the end of stage 1 at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. This has forced him to abandon the race and might put into jeopardy his preparation towards the spring campaign, with only two months left to the Tour of Flanders and Paris...

When Jack Haig tried to explain why a move to INEOS Grenadiers made sense for him in 2026, he ended up explaining something much bigger about the team itself. “Maybe they were missing some more experienced guys that really know how to steer the ship in the right direction in certain critical moments...

Cole Kessler is one of 13 neo-pros wearing the Modern Adventure Pro Cycling team's colours in 2026. The brand new American ProTeam's foundation marks a turning point for North American cycling as a successor of legacy left behind my Human Powered Health between 2018 and 2023. Part of the team's very...

This week's update features points scored in the one day World Tour Mapei Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Pro Tour level stage race AlUla Tour, one day Spanish semi classics (Trofeo Calvià, Trofeo Ses Salines, Trofeo Serra Tramuntana, Trofeo Andratx - Pollença and Trofeo Palma) and Grand Prix La...

The 2025 edition of Etoile de Besseges was a miserable one, to put it simply. Cars on the road, stages being paused, altered, and almost cancelled at times. The edition had only 52 finishers out of 146 participants. Most of them riders for French teams who were ordered by their management to honour...

For Remco Evenepoel, his transfer from Soudal - Quick-Step to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe is an opportunity for a fresh start in a new environment. And the Belgian set off to a great start going three for three in his first starts in the new jersey. But the main part of his season will not revolve a...

Despite the opening stage of Volta a Comunitat Valenciana being predicted as a relatively straightforward sprinter day, the opposite was true. Movistar and Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe found an unlikely alliance that attacked the head of the race on the day's only classified climb, the Puerto Los Mad...

Michael Woods is a former professional runner turned cyclist in his mid-20's, with a transition that was achieved to perfection as he won 16 pro races including a stage at the Tour de France and three at the Vuelta a España. He retired from pro cycling at the end of last year, but in 2026 will becom...

The debate around Jonas Vingegaard’s 2026 calendar is no longer just a media talking point. It is now being openly questioned by former Tour de France winners and experienced insiders who know exactly what it takes to win in July. With the Dane set to ride the Giro d’Italia for the first time before...

Biniam Girmay has spent a year dry in 2025, following a breakthrough 2024 where he won multiple times at the Tour de France and conquered the green jersey. Hence 2026 is a year where there is pressure to make a comeback, but in his first outing in the NSN Cycling Team colours, the Eritrean sprinter...

A rider once seen at the very front of a Grand Tour has found himself back in headlines for very different reasons this week. Italian authorities confirmed that a former Vuelta a Espana red jersey wearer was arrested in Naples after carabinieri discovered counterfeit banknotes hidden inside his veh...

Biniam Girmay did not take a single victory throughout the 2025 season, but after changing teams and joining NSN Cycling Team, he immediately achieved success by taking the win on stage 1 of the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana.  The stage began with a breakaway of four riders in what was the day that b...

The Hulst World Championships are now behind and today the cyclocross field has taken on the first cross that follows. Without the big starts such as Mathieu van der Poel and Lucinda Brand, other riders were able to take the spotlight, and this has led to more open races, which saw Marie Schreiber a...

Since August 2024 that Team Flanders - Baloise didn't manage to win a UCI race. Today at the Etoile de Bességes, the year and a half drought has come to an end as Tom Crabbe took a surprising win on the opening stage of the French race where the Belgian team took the spotlight.  Ward Vanhoof, Léndre...

Cian Uijtdebroeks was Movistar Team's great signing this winter, and perhaps one of the most surprising deals of the entire transfer season. Now in a completely new environment and learning a new language, the Belgian is finding himself in a team where he is a greater priority and is enjoying his po...

There was no announcement. No press conference. No headline-grabbing statement. Just a quiet Instagram post from Bauke Mollema that carried more weight than it first appeared. “Time flies when you're having fun! From the local NWVG Cycling to Rabobank/Belkin to Lidl-Trek. I'm very grateful to have l...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We preview...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and is the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. We preview stage 1, which is set to start at 12:40 and finish at 16:00CET.  One of the cornerstone early-season stage races on the...

For Alpecin-Premier Tech boss Christoph Roodhooft, the conversation about Mathieu van der Poel has two parts right now. First, the acknowledgement of what just happened at the end of his superstar's winter campaign in Hulst. Then, the careful management of what comes next. Speaking to Wieler Revue a...

A team time trial victory. Two solo wins. Three race days that were never meant to happen in the original plan. Remco Evenepoel could hardly have scripted a more emphatic first appearance in Red Bull colours at the Challenge Mallorca. The narrative before the week began was simple. Evenepoel would r...

For all the talk of new colours, new staff, and a perfect start in Mallorca, the clearest explanation for Remco Evenepoel’s early-season form lies not in race tactics but in what happened long before the flag dropped. In an interview with Sporza, Evenepoel opened up about the philosophy behind his...

The early-season sprint picture is already forming across the peloton. Wins are being taken. Leadouts are settling. Fast men are finding rhythm. And one of the very fastest of them all is not even part of that conversation yet. According to Soudal - Quick-Step CEO Jurgen Fore, Tim Merlier is still u...

Marlen Reusser approaches 2026 as one of the defining years of her career. The Swiss rider from Movistar Team arrives in peak form with a clear goal: win a Grand Tour - in fact, two. La Vuelta Femenina and the Tour de France Femmes are the guiding lights of a meticulously planned season, without giv...

Mathieu van der Poel has now won eighth men's elite cyclocross world titles, more than any other rider in history. He's achieved history in Hulst and soon he may leave cyclocross behind - or significantly reduce his schedule - in order to pursue improvements in the classics and be a stronger challen...

Tom Pidcock has not talked about the Tour de France like this before. Not because the race is new to him, but because the context is. Q36.5 are heading to cycling’s biggest stage on merit, off the back of what they did in 2025. For a team outside the WorldTour, that is the difference between being i...

With the Tour de France now exclusively behind a paywall in the UK for the first time since the 1980s, TNT Sports pundit Brian Smith has warned that the sport risks alienating the general public just as the country prepares to host the Grand Départ in 2027. The 2025 Tour de France marked the end of...

Simon Clarke brought the curtain down on a professional career spanning two decades on Sunday, crossing the finish line for the final time at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in Geelong. The 39-year-old Australian, a respected road captain and stage winner at both the Tour de France and Vuelta...

This week's update features points scored in the one day World Tour Mapei Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Pro Tour level stage race AlUla Tour, one day Spanish semi classics (Trofeo Calvià, Trofeo Ses Salines, Trofeo Serra Tramuntana, Trofeo Andratx - Pollença and Trofeo Palma) and Grand Prix La...

Unibet Rose Rockets are no longer just "the fun guys who also do races as a side gig". Behind the facade of a playful organization that takes itself only half-seriously at times is a professional structure of a high quality with experts across many fields, including nutrition, scouting or coaching....

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We preview...

The 2026 cyclocross World Championships were a massive showcase of dominance from the home team who ended up taking 5 out of 7 available rainbow jerseys alongside a range of silver and bronze medals especially in the elite categories. Such was the story of Dutch talent Tibor del Grosso, two-time und...

You would hardly ever find a more "up & down" career in the cyclocross world than that of British champion Cameron Mason. The 25-year-old has been on the brink of entering the discipline's upper echelon for many years now. But every time it seems like Mason's on the verge of a breakthrough, he falls...

For all the noise around his winter move, the accusations from his former boss, and the early victories in Mallorca, the clearest explanation for Remco Evenepoel’s switch to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe comes from the rider himself. “It’s possible to win the Tour de France one day, it’s my dream,” Ev...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and will be the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. The race features opportunities for the sprinters, classics riders and time trialists to perform. We take a look at the start...

The 2026 Etoile de Bessèges will be taking place from the 4th to the 8th of February and will be the first stage-race of the season in France, and one of the first in Europe. The race features opportunities for the sprinters, classics riders and time trialists to perform. We preview the race ahead. ...

The return was never going to be quiet. Not with the name involved, not with the history attached, and not with a brand new American team stepping into the international peloton for the first time. But few would have expected George Hincapie’s Modern Adventure Pro Cycling project to make its first c...

The Volta a Comunitat Valenciana 2026 will once again establish itself as one of the first significant European stage races of the season, with a route that, on paper, appears particularly selective. A mix of rolling stages, summit finishes and days featuring constant elevation gain will demand a hi...

The shock retirement of Simon Yates continues to echo through the professional peloton, and now one of the men who knows him best from inside a team environment has used it as a warning sign for the entire sport. Speaking to Tutto Bici Web at the AlUla Tour, Brent Copeland did not talk about Yates i...

ASO’s wildcard decision for the 2026 Tour de France left Unibet ROSE Rockets on the outside looking in. Days later, a different organiser has delivered a very different verdict on the team’s appeal. RCS Sport, the company behind Strade Bianche, Milano-Sanremo and Tirreno-Adriatico, has confirmed its...

A fresh glimpse into Wout van Aert’s rehabilitation has offered the clearest sign yet that his return to racing remains firmly on track. After a physio session at LAB Antwerp with kinesiologist Thijs Hertsens, the Visma rider did not head home by car. He rode. Van Aert uploaded the session to Strava...

Winning the 2026 Volta a Comunitat Valenciana is the sole objective on the mind of UAE Team Emirates - XRG. It does not matter that Remco Evenepoel and Giulio Pellizzari line up as a Red Bull BORA hansgrohe duo, or that Cian Uijtdebroeks makes his debut with Movistar Team. For the Emirati squad, the...

The honeymoon glow around Remco Evenepoel’s perfect start with Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe has been met with a very different tone from his former boss. In a blunt and highly personal interview, Patrick Lefevere did not hide his feelings about Ralph Denk or the way Evenepoel’s move away from Soudal...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the World Tour peloton take on the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. A race above many of its World Tour peers in terms of startlist, it features every year a whole array of starts looking to use the good weather and familiar roads to kick off their season. We take a...

The Volta a Comunitat Valenciana begins this Wednesday and here, Arne Marit will be reunited, in racing, with his old training partner Remco Evenepoel. After the virtual demise of Intermarché - Wanty the 27-year old sprinter feared for his career only a few months ago; but currently he finds himself...

The Giro d'Italia has gained a new overall classification contender. Ben O'Connor has announced that he will be racing the Corsa Rosa in May and will be Team Jayco AlUla's leader in the pursuit of a podium position.  “The Giro d’Italia always finds our soft spots. Maybe it’s just the Italian allure,...

The Volta a Comunitat Valenciana begins this Wednesday the 4th of February and with it come a whole array of stars. With some mild weather, difficult stages and roads that are close to his home in Spain, it was no a difficult choice for Remco Evenepoel who selected this five-day race as his opening...

Professional cycling is experiencing an ever-faster influx of young talent. A decade ago, seeing 18- or 19-year-olds at the top level was rare. In 2026, that exception is close to the norm, with riders like Adrià Pericas or Héctor Álvarez in Spain; and Paul Seixas, Lorenzo Finn, or Matthew Brennan i...

From the 4th to the 8th of February, the European stage-race calendar will open up with two races simultaneously. In France there is the Etoile de Bessèges whilst in Spain the peloton will tackle the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana. Here are the dates, stages and schedules for both races, as well as wh...

Mathieu van der Poel has done it. He's become the best cyclocrosser in history with his eighth world title in Hulst this past weekend. At 31 years of age, Van der Poel still has many productive cycling years ahead, and he could potentially aim for a magical '10', or switch his attention to another d...

For a rider who spent years at the heart of the Team Sky Tour de France mountain train, helping control chaos on the steepest roads in cycling, this was a situation Nicolas Roche could not control. He was on the ground in a street in central Barcelona. Three men were trying to rip a watch from his w...

Wout Van Aert has been through many downs in recent years which notably slowed down his great career. And although bad luck has been the culprit more often than not, Van Aert is not a supporter of supernatural causes, and looks for a rational reason of some of his struggles elsewhere. Forget the lon...

As every year, we have to come to understand that a number of reputable professionals disappear from the peloton. In that sense, the 2025 winter felt extremely nostalgic with 2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas, 2014 Milano-Sanremo and 2015 Tour of Flanders winner Alexander Kristoff, 2013 world champion...

Remco Evenepoel travelled to Mallorca to kick off his 2026 season and has done so to perfection. In three races, he was the key for the German team to win all three, and not only did he put out strong power numbers, but he also used these as ideal preparation for bigger races ahead.  "2026 has alrea...

Mathieu van der Poel dominated the 2026 cyclocross World Championships ahead of Tibor del Grosso and Thibau Nys. The trio was clearly in a league of their own compared to the rest of the field where Joris Nieuwenhuis proved strongest and rose to a honorable 4th place. However in retrospective, the 2...

We're only a month into 2026, but absences are already piling up at Lotto-Intermarché. The Belgian formation underwent a large reconstruction past winter with 10 riders coming on-board from dissolving Intermarché-Wanty structure alongside a new titular sponsors. The general idea was clear; to build...

Former world champion Bart Wellens did not see the elite women’s race at the 2026 UCI Cyclocross World Championships as a story of a winning attack. He saw it as a story of a race ridden incorrectly at the front, and read perfectly just behind. The opening laps were frantic. Pace changes, accelerati...

For months, Biniam Girmay’s move to NSN Cycling Team has sat in the background of the transfer market as one of the most intriguing stories of the winter. A historic green jersey winner, a headline signing for a rebranded WorldTour project, and a rider openly seeking a structure better suited to his...

When someone who has worked with Eric De Vlaeminck and raced directly against Sven Nys says the hierarchy of cyclocross has changed, it carries weight. Former world champion Bart Wellens did not hedge. He did not qualify. Watching the elite men’s race at the 2026 UCI Cyclocross World Championships f...

When Simon Yates’ sudden retirement left a Giro winner-sized hole inside Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s Grand Tour plans, many outside the team assumed the pressure would immediately shift onto the shoulders of the squad’s newest climbing recruit, Davide Piganzoli. Inside the team, however, things look...

From the 4th to the 8th of February the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana will set the stage for Cian Uijtdebroeks’ debut with Movistar team. The Valencian race will be the first major test for a group that blends experience and youth, with clearly defined roles both in the mountains and on the flat....

Javier Ares is one of Spain’s most seasoned and respected cycling journalists. With a long career in radio and television, he currently serves as a commentator on Eurosport alongside Alberto Contador, offering measured analysis, historical context, and a broad view of the international peloton. In o...

I keep debating with myself about where Wout van Aert stands heading into 2026. Injured is probably the best way to describe his current predicament, but he seems relatively upbeat in his recent interviews. When Van Aert so positively about races like the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, he sound...

Tibor del Grosso couldn't have realistically aimed for more, but he has gotten a lot out of the Hulst World Championships. After winning his first elite national title, the 22-year old now, in his first elite World Championships, rode to a second place where he was only beaten by Mathieu van der Poe...

At what point should a successful story come to an end? Mathieu van der Poel has recently beaten the record for most world cup race wins in cyclocross; and now he has finally achieved his eighth world title in the discipline which puts him at an unique position in the sport. The Dutch rider is still...

Oscar Onley’s move to INEOS Grenadiers looked, on the surface, like the natural next step for a rider who had just finished fourth at the Tour de France. A British climber stepping into Britain’s most decorated team felt logical, ambitious and timely. Brian Smith sees it very differently. Speaking o...

Bryan Coquard has broken a drought of over a year to claim victory at the 2026 Grand Prix La Marseillaise. The win is a significant morale booster for the 33-year-old Frenchman, but also a crucial first step for his Cofidis team as they begin a three-year hunt for UCI points to secure a return to th...

Brady Gilmore (NSN Cycling Team) has continued his dream start to life in the WorldTour, claiming a podium spot in his first ever one-day race at the top level. The 24-year-old Australian, who only turned professional this season, sprinted to third place at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in G...

The prophecy has been fulfilled, and history has been written. Mathieu van der Poel captured his eighth Cyclocross World Championship title in Hulst on Sunday, breaking the tie with Erik De Vlaeminck to become the sole record holder in the discipline. To mark the occasion, the Dutchman crossed the l...

Lars van der Haar's relationship with the UCI Cyclocross World Championships has come to a close. The 34-year-old Dutchman, who is going to retire at the end of the 2025-2026 season, finished his final Worlds appearance in 19th place in Hulst. It was a farewell marred by a late crash and the harsh r...

Just over a minute separated Toon Aerts from the rainbow jersey on Sunday, but in terms of dominance, the gap felt much larger. Crossing the line in eighth place at the Cyclocross World Championships, the European Champion had nothing but praise for the winner, comparing Mathieu van der Poel’s hegem...

The 2013 Florence World Championships remain one of the races that can't be explained by a single image. It isn’t enough to watch the finale or isolate the last decisive move. Joaquim Rodríguez has broken down the race that shaped part of his career on his YouTube channel, dissecting an event that,...

The last time Arne Marit took a victory was in a non-UCI event back in 2022, but his only pro win before today at come at the 21 GP du Morbihan. In his three years with Intermarché - Wanty, the Belgian sprinter did not manage to win one time. In his first race day with Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, h...

Eight men's elite cyclocross world titles. Mathieu van der Poel has made cycling history this afternoon in Hulst, breaking the absolute record in the discipline and achieving a decade-long pursuit, whilst becoming perhaps the most successful rider cyclocross has ever seen.  Van der Poel's success in...

Bryan Coquard has taken his first pro win of 2026, and the 54th in his career. After 12 dry months, the leader of Cofidis has returned to his winning ways this afternoon by winning the opening race of the French calendar - the Grand Prix La Marseillaise.  The breakaway of the day was formed by Thoma...

Mathieu van der Poel has won the cyclocross world championships in Hulst. The Dutch rider has taken his eighth rainbow jersey in the men's elite category and with this, has become the rider to have taken the most titles in the discipline's history - taking down Erick de Vlaeminck's record which held...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe have had the perfect week at the Challenge Mallorca. After winning the team time trial and having Remco Evenepoel win both mountainous races; Arne Marit sprinted to victory at the Trofeo Palma.  The final race of the Challenge Mallorca was always going to be one for the s...

After finishing on the podium two times, Leonie Bentveld has become under-23 cyclocross World Champion in Hulst. The Dutch rider put on a bike handling masterclass to thrive in a circuit where the descents played a key role.  The race began with Fleur Moors taking up the race lead anvd very quickly...

Michael Storer has been part of the Giro d'Italia on several occasions and last year he began it as a strong contender for a top result. However a succession of several crashes saw the Australian rider fail in his goal - despite still finishing the race in the Top10. But after joining Tadej Pogacar...

Ahead of the World Championships in Hulst, Wout van Aert had a conversation with Belgian commentators Niels Albert and Paul Herygers where he shared insight into his potential participation in the race before his injury, and also what must be done in order to have the chance to even challenge Mathie...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike set Matthew Brennan up strongly for success at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and then the young Briton proceeded to do the perfect race. However, the timing in his final sprint was off, and it saw him get beaten by Tobias Lund Andresen once again.  Like deja vu of s...

The cyclocross World Championships are here. This weekend, on the 31st of January and 1st of February, the world's best riders will be in Hulst competing for the rainbow jerseys throughout several events. Mathieu van der Poel has the chance to make history in a course he knows well, where he can con...

Tobias Lund Andresen made a move to Decathlon CMA CGM and his start to the 2026 season has been nothing short of impressive. The Danish sprinter has won stage 1 and the points classification at the Tour Down Under, and now he has also added the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race to his palmarès.  Aus...

In this article, we’re going to take a close look at 5 riders in need of a strong year on the bike in 2026. 2025 wasn’t a disaster year for all of these riders, but it did leave a few uncomfortable question marks. Some were derailed by illness, others by crashes, pressure, or simply failing to turn...

In modern cycling, innovation rarely fails because it lacks logic. More often, it fails because the sport is not ready to let go of what it has always done. That tension sits at the heart of the debate sparked this winter by Tadej Pogacar, whose call to reshuffle the Grand Tour calendar has exposed...

It would be a stretch to call Aaron Dockx's world title a 'complete upset', however it's the 21-year-old Belgian from Alpecin - Premier Tech definitely wasn't among the most anticipated names heading into Saturday's under-23 race. After all, Dockx has been hardly a stand-out name during the current...

Unibet Rose Rockets' non-invitation to the 2026 Tour de France left the cycling world in a shock and disbelief. Rather than the highly-popular team with French license and a number of former Tour stage winners in their ranks, the Tour organizer ASO chose to prioritize a Spanish team Caja Rural - Seg...

Tobias Lund Andresen has taken the victory at the 2026 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. The Decathlon CMA CGM rider was able to survive the day's climbs and went on to take a superb win, perhaps the biggest of his career after he also succeeded at the Tour Down Under earlier in January.  Three rid...

The 2026 AlUla Tour came to a conclusion on Saturday with a complete shake-up of overall classification where Jan Christen came on top of the chaos. The entire race could be described as chaotic. Besides the ever-present crosswinds and echelons, stage 3 posed riders with the most intimidating descen...

It's not like this every year, but in 2026, the teams which will be granted Grand Tour wildcards were kept in the dark until the very last day. For the biggest of them all, the Tour de France, Unibet Rose Rockets seemed to be the front-runners to join fellow French ProTeam TotalEnergies in a Grand D...

Mathieu van der Poel will be in the position to overwrite cyclocross history this Sunday. The Dutchman is currently tied for the record of rainbow jerseys with Eric De Vlaeminck who's been sat on the throne for over 50 years now. Pushed to the limits by home crowds in Hulst, can anything bar bad luc...

As expected, the elite women's race at the cyclocross World Championships has turned into a strictly Dutch battle for top placings, with the ladies in orange ultimately taking all three medals. After five years of waiting, Lucinda Brand returned to cyclocross throne as Ceylin Alvarado and Puck Piete...

The final race of the 2026 Challenge Mallorca is the Trofeo Palma, the race best suited to the sprinters. This will be taking place on the 1st of February, starting out at 10:30CET and finishing at 14:05CET.  The Trofeo Palma is the last of the Challenge Mallorca races this year and is also the gran...

The final race of the 2026 Challenge Mallorca is the Trofeo Palma, the race best suited to the sprinters. This will be taking place on the 1st of February, starting out at 10:30CET and finishing at 14:05CET. We take a look at the startlist.  The Trofeo Palma is the last of the Challenge Mallorca rac...

For many, the sudden retirement of Simon Yates in January felt like a bolt from the blue. For Brian Smith, it did not.  Speaking to road.cc, the former British champion, team manager and long-time television pundit delivered one of the most forceful assessments yet of what modern professional cyclin...

Wout van Aert was a great part of Simon Yates' final season in the peloton, however the two have now split apart as the Briton announced his retirement earlier this month before the team's second training camp. Van Aert responds to the question of why retirements for top riders have become more norm...

The Grand Prix La Marseillaise is the first race in the French calendar every year and opens up the competition for many riders in the peloton. The hilly classic will take place on the 1st of February, with an estimated start and finish time at 12:40 and 16:30CET. We preview the race.  Originally kn...

The Grand Prix La Marseillaise is the first race in the French calendar every year and opens up the competition for many riders in the peloton. The hilly classic will take place on the 1st of February, with an estimated start and finish time at 12:40 and 16:30CET. We take a look at its startlist.  O...

Remco Evenepoel opened his season with a victory at the Trofeo ses Salines' team time trial, and the next day dominated to win the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana. Today he looked to be racing in support of Maxim van Gils, but as Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe didn't want to risk it, the Olympic Champion en...

Lucinda Brand has had an extraordinary season, winning the World Cup and X2O Badkamers Trofee with absolute domination, as well as winning almost all races she started this winter and only missing the podium on one occasion. But she had failed to win the European and Dutch national championships; wh...

The 2026 Trofeo Andratx crowned Remco Evenepoel as its new winner. The Olympic Champion began the race as the main favourite and once again stepped up to the task; taking his second individual win of the season within two opportunities with Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe.  Many riders attacked early in...

The cyclocross World Championships 2026 have crowned Lucinda Brand the rainbow jersey once again. The women's elite race saw an all-Dutch podium with the season's dominator taking her second world title. In Hulst, she was joined by Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and Puck Pieterse on the podium.  The rac...

On the 1st of February, the World Tour hosts its first World Tour one-day race of the year: the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. The race will take place on the 1st of February, starting at 01:10CET and finish at 05:30CET. We preview the race.  The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race has rapidly bec...

Christian Scaroni rode to a podium finish at yesterday's Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana at the Challenge Mallorca, joining António Morgado and Remco Evenepoel on the podium. The Italian is once again starting his season on great form, but he didn't even try following the Belgian in his attack on the Col...

Remco Evenepoel has started the season in excellent shape. On Thursday, he won the team time trial, while yesterday he secured the win after a 50km solo masterclass. He wraps up his season opener in Mallorca today in another hilly day that suits him perfectly. We also have the final stage of the AlU...

The AlUla Tour was turned on its head on the final climb of the race as Jan Christen attacked on Harrat Uwayrid, won Stage 5 solo and, in the process, overturned the general classification to claim overall victory. Just four seconds separated race leader Yannis Voisard from Afonso Eulalio at the sta...

The cyclocross World Championships in Hulst are under way and today the first big event of the day was the men's under-23 race. Here there was a surprise as the Dutch could only manage a bronze medal at best, and it was Belgium's Aaron Dockx who took the rainbow jersey.  The circuit in Hulst was ver...

When talk began to swirl that this winter could be Mathieu van der Poel’s last in cyclocross, many voices weighed in. Few carry more weight than Wout van Aert. Speaking on Laurens ten Dam’s Live Slow Ride Fast podcast, Van Aert admitted he was genuinely surprised to hear that his great rival had eve...

At just 24, Joppe de Heij has been handed a level of responsibility that few sports directors reach so early in their careers. From this season, he steps into the WorldTour environment with Team Visma | Lease a Bike Women, joining one of the most structured and ambitious programmes in the sport at...

As the WorldTour convoy settles into its Australian rhythm after the Tour Down Under, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race offers a very different examination of form. Not a sprint festival. Not a mountain test. But a nervy, wind-touched, leg-sapping war of positioning and timing around Geelong, wh...

There was a telling shift in tone this week when Adrie van der Poel spoke alongside Sven Nys in Het Nieuwsblad. It was not a discussion about mud, legs, or tactics. It was about time. Pressure. Obligation. And about what happens after the finish line. “Mathieu gets home two hours later than everyone...

Lidl-Trek’s 2026 squad is already being viewed as one of the most complete in the WorldTour, with comparisons to UAE’s depth and balance across the calendar. According to Eurosport pundit Javier Ares, the American team’s roster construction puts them in a position few others currently occupy. His an...

António Morgado admitted there was little anyone could do once Remco Evenepoel launched his decisive move at Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, as the Portuguese rider sprinted to second place behind the Belgian after another aggressive day of racing in Mallorca. “I feel good, it was a good race, and it’s...

Ally Wollaston underlined her strength on rolling one day terrain with a controlled sprint victory in Geelong, as the women’s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race concluded with a reduced bunch deciding the outcome after a relentlessly selective circuit. The race was fast from the outset, with repeated...

For a rider who had already become a trusted part of the most dominant team in the modern peloton, August 2025 threatened to take away far more than a season. It came close to taking away everything. When Filippo Baroncini hit a wall at high speed during the Tour de Pologne, the consequences were im...

Tadej Pogacar’s newly announced sponsorship agreement has come under increased scrutiny following a detailed report outlining past legal and regulatory issues linked to the crypto company he has partnered with. Earlier this week, Pogacar confirmed that he had become a global brand ambassador for cry...

Jonas Vingegaard’s expanding property portfolio is no longer just growing quietly in the background. It is now being formalised. According to a report by Ekstra Bladet, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike leader’s wife, Trine Marie Hansen, has set up a company dedicated to real estate investment, marking...

Andy Schleck has officially stepped into his new role as General Manager of Lidl-Trek, marking a high-profile return to the structure where he ended his racing career in 2014. The 2010 Tour de France champion is now responsible for the entire operation of the German-licensed squad, joining his broth...

The future of the Maryland Cycling Classic is hanging in the balance once again. Currently registered on the UCI calendar as a three-day ProSeries event for men and a 2.1 stage race for women for September 2026, the race is facing significant headwinds following the sudden departure of key leadershi...

Soudal - Quick-Step’s spring classics campaign has suffered a significant setback before it has even properly begun. Laurenz Rex, a key figure in the team's planned roster for the cobbles, has been ruled out of the upcoming Opening Weekend after sustaining multiple back fractures during the AlUla To...

For many riders, moving to the most dominant team in the peloton is about security. For Kevin Vermaerke, it was about the opposite. As he prepares for his first season with UAE Team Emirates - XRG, the American is stepping into an environment where selection is ruthless, expectations are uncompromis...

Former cyclo-cross world champion Hennie Stamsnijder has launched a stinging critique of Team Visma | Lease a Bike, arguing that the management's mishandling of Fem van Empel led to her indefinite break from the sport. He claimed the team failed to protect the young star by trying to force her into...

Tiesj Benoot views his transfer from Visma-Lease a Bike to Decathlon CMA CGM Team as a "new beginning." After four years serving primarily as a luxury domestique for Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard, the 31-year-old Belgian has moved to the French squad to rediscover the freedom of racing for hims...

The fourth round of the Challenge Mallorca is the Trofeo Andratx - Pollença, which is going to be taking place on the 31st of January this year, estimated to start at 12:20CET and finish at 16:05CET. We preview the race ahead.  First held in 1997, the Trofeo Pollença has challenged riders with a dem...

The fourth round of the Challenge Mallorca is the Trofeo Andratx - Pollença, which is going to be taking place on the 31st of January this year, estimated to start at 12:20CET and finish at 16:05CET. We take a look at its startlist.  First held in 1997, the Trofeo Pollença has challenged riders with...

ASO’s decision to award a Tour de France 2026 wildcard to Caja Rural instead of Unibet ROSE Rockets has been labelled a serious sporting error, with Danish cycling expert Emil Axelgaard arguing that the choice cannot be defended on performance grounds. Speaking to TV2, Axelgaard described the wildca...

Jonas Vingegaard’s fan-related training crash in Spain has continued to frame a wider discussion inside the peloton, not only around boundaries and safety but around something more fundamental to cycling itself: accessibility. After earlier reactions focused on frustration and respect amid increasi...

Remco Evenepoel delivered a performance of authority and intent at the Trofeo Serra Tramuntana, riding away from the field with a long-range solo to claim his first road victory in Red Bull colours and underline exactly what this new chapter is about. On a demanding Mallorcan route packed with repea...

For Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, Trofeo Serra Tramuntana delivered more than another early-season victory. It offered immediate confirmation that Remco Evenepoel is already shaping races in exactly the way the team envisaged when they secured his signature. Sports director Oliver Cookson made that c...

Remco Evenepoel’s solo victory at Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana was not an opportunistic move born of chaos, but a fully committed plan executed exactly where Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe had intended. The Belgian launched his decisive attack on the Coll de Soller with 55 kilometres still remaining, tur...

The case that cast a shadow over the junior men’s road race at the 2025 Road World Championships in Kigali has now reached its conclusion. The Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed that Azerbaijani rider Artyom Proskuryakov has been handed a three-year ban following an Anti-Doping Rule Violati...

Stage 5 of the AlUla Tour will be taking place on the 31st of January, with an estimated start and finish time at 10:40 and 14:15CET. The queen stage of the race will feature a brutally steep climb close to the finish where the overall classification can still be turned on its head - and there are s...

Stage 4 of the AlUla Tour was the final opportunity for the sprinters and it was fully used by the fast men. Jonathan Milan didn't manage to take another victory but instead it was XDS Astana Team's Matteo Malucelli who sprinted to victory.  The 173-kilometer long stage began straight away with stro...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe managed to celebrate their victory this Thursday at the Trofeo Ses Salines but it didn't come without its price. Nico Denz describes how difficult it was to be the man behind Remco Evenepoel throughout the 24-kilometer effort.  The German team was the strongest on paper b...

The Tour de France has revealed the 23 teams that will participate in the 2026 edition this morning and amongst these is Caja Rural - Seguros RGA, which come as a surprise. Left out is Unibet Rose Rockets, who have already reacted to the news; whilst Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has a...

The third event out of the Challenge Mallorca is the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, which will take place on the 30th of January. The race is estimated to start at 12:20CET and finish at 16:05CET. We preview the race ahead.  The Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana is the third round of the Challenge Mallorca th...

The wildcards for the 2026 Tour de France have been revealed. We know now the 23 teams that will compete in this summer's event which will not include Unibet Rose Rockets, but will instead include a big surprise in Caja Rural - Seguros RGA. The likes of Tom Pidcock and Julian Alaphilippe have also s...

Richard Carapaz was set to make his 2026 season debut at the Challenge Mallorca however he was forced to withdraw from the races and delay his season start after the passing of his mother.  The Ecuadorian rider announced on Wednesday the death of his mother, Ana Luisa Montenegro, in the city of Tul...

For Luke Rowe, the Tour Down Under did more than open the 2026 WorldTour season. It quietly underlined how difficult it is to ever fully detach from a team that shaped almost an entire professional life. Now working with Decathlon CMA CGM Team, Rowe joined long-time friend and former team-mate Gerai...

João Almeida is going into 2026 with a shot at leadership in two Grand Tours: the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España. However, the Portuguese is aware that he may be joined by Tadej Pogacar at La Vuelta and that a decision will only be made later in the year.  Earlier this week the UAE Team Emirates...

Some of the big teams didn’t just shuffle riders, they moved whole plans. Some of it is transfer politics, some of it is ego, and some of it is simply two or three riders trying to work out who gets to be the main character. Here are the five things I can’t stop thinking about as the new season cree...

The sudden disappearance of Simon Yates from professional cycling is still being treated as an uncomfortable footnote. According to Danish cycling icon Brian Holm, that silence should no longer be accepted. Speaking on the Café Eddy podcast, Holm challenged both the timing and the handling of Yates’...

Henok Mulubrhan’s career makes most sense when viewed from the fringes of world cycling. He didn’t start in Europe or grow up within a calendar full of opportunities. His starting point was Eritrea and, from there, every step was shaped by more than performance alone: the simple chance to be seen. E...

Team Jayco AlUla were among the standout performers in the team time trial at the Trofeo Ses Salines, the opening round of the Challenge Mallorca. The Australian squad set the fastest time at the finish for several minutes, initially bettering one of the big favourites, Tudor, before being bumped do...

The Trofeo Ses Salines at the Challenge Mallorca delivered one of the most symbolic images of the early season with Stefan Küng’s debut for Tudor Pro Cycling Team. After many years flying the Groupama - FDJ colours, the Swiss opened a new chapter of his career in the jersey of the Swiss outfit in a...

Four weeks before the spring classics begin, Wout van Aert has offered his clearest picture yet of how his recovery from an ankle fracture is progressing, speaking on the Live Slow Ride Fast podcast. Van Aert broke his ankle in a crash at the Zilvermeercross in Mol in early January, a setback that a...