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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

For Remco Evenepoel, the stopwatch delivered the headline result, but inside Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, the bigger takeaway from the Trofeo Ses Salines was how naturally their new leader slotted into place. That was the clear message from sports director Patxi Vila, after Red Bull edged Movistar T...

A winter of expectation turned into immediate confirmation on the roads of Mallorca, as Remco Evenepoel opened his new chapter with a statement victory in the Trofeo Ses Salines. On his first competitive outing for Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, the Belgian played a central role in a commanding team t...

The first competitive outing of Remco Evenepoel in the colours of Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe could scarcely have been more revealing. On a flat, exposed team time trial course in southern Mallorca, Red Bull edged Movistar Team by just four seconds to win the Trofeo Ses Salines, delivering an immedi...

Patience rather than panic proved decisive on the first real GC test of the 2026 AlUla Tour, as Yannis Voisard delivered a perfectly judged late effort to claim stage three and move into the race lead. After two sprint dominated opening days, the uphill finish at Bir Jaydah Mountain Wirkah finally s...

Stage 4 of the AlUla Tour will be taking place on the 30th of January, with an estimated start and finish time at 09:55 and 14:05CET. The fourth day of racing will once again be fit for the sprinters and it will be their last opportunity, with Jonathan Milan as the clear favourite to take the victor...

Tadej Pogacar has added another strand to his expanding commercial portfolio after confirming a new ambassador agreement with crypto company KuCoin, underlining how his off-bike profile continues to grow alongside his dominance on the road. The partnership was announced via social media channels and...

Stage 3 of the AlUla Tour was the first and only stage finishing with a climb, which can ultimately be key for the overall classification. Several teams took up the responsibility, however it was Tudor Pro Cycling who managed to take the glory on the day as Yannis Voisard took the stage win and is t...

Michel Hessmann went through a seven-month suspension during his time with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, which ultimately ended his stint with the Dutch team. He has since returned to the peloton in the colours of Movistar Team almost a year ago, and details his current perspective as well as how he fe...

This Thursday brings the Trofeo Ses Salines, one of the races in the Challenge Mallorca 2026, which this year debuts a completely new format with a 24-kilometre team time trial. We take a look at the start times and order for the race that will include Remco Evenepoel.  The Balearic opener will set...

Stage 3 of the AlUla Tour will be taking place on the 29th of January, with an estimated start and finish time at 10:55 and 14:00CET. This is going to be one of the most important stages of the race and the only one in which the riders will have a summit finish, which should create important differe...

Today was the day where Australia's Surf Coast Classic was supposed to be held in Torquay, however extreme weather conditions forced the race to be cancelled. Instead, the organizers of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race organized a criterium, which was won by INEOS Grenadiers' Sam Welsford.  The...

EF Education-EasyPost have announced the renewal of Ben Healy. The Irishman had a running contract already with the team, but this has now been extended all the way into 2029 as the American team looks to secure in its ranks a homegrown talent who has become an absolute leader.  “I’m close mates wit...

XDS Astana Team’s 2025 season marked a clear and badly needed reset after a year spent looking over their shoulder. Entering the campaign, the Kazakhstan-registered WorldTour team faced a genuine fight for survival at the top level, having slipped dangerously close to relegation in 2024. Under the l...

Jonas Vingegaard’s training crash in Spain has reignited an uncomfortable conversation inside professional cycling, one that goes beyond the fall itself and into how elite riders are increasingly approached while preparing on open roads. While Team Visma | Lease a Bike confirmed the Dane escaped wit...

The Trofeo Ses Salines takes on a completely different format in 2026. The second out of the Challenge Mallorca races is a team time trial this year, taking place on the 29th of January, used by some to prepare for the Tour de France already. We preview the race, which is set to start at 14:00CET an...

Zoe Bäckstedt's return to cyclocross delayed because of a wrist injury until the end of calendar year, however the 21-year-old Brit quickly blended with the best riders in the peloton. Just in time for the World Championships in Hulst. After two years of dominance in the under-23 category, there wil...

Alberto Dainese's debut in Soudal - Quick-Step jersey was a discovery process. The sprint train's first crash test at Tour Down Under was therefore quite chaotic at times. In a sense, the results speak for themselves as Dainese finished 23rd, 38th and 30th. Far from what he had envisioned, but the b...

The 2026 season has just kicked off, and with that comes the first UCI ranking update of the year. The first week of racing only featured races in two countries. On the one hand, we had the first World Tour event of the season, the Tour Down Under. On the other hand, three one-day races took place i...

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will no longer be the only Prévot family member in the professional peloton. As it seems, the Tour de France Femmes is truly magical and continues to attract talented cyclists from France to chase their dream on home roads. Such is the story also for Pauline's younger sister A...

It's taken quite some years, but Ralph Denk succeeded in signing Remco Evenepoel. The Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe manager is confident that with the Belgian on-board, his team is finally ready to take over the cycling scene and win the Tour de France. In a finite time frame, at least. "That's not al...

Cyclocross as a whole won't quite be the same without Eli Iserbyt. The 2020 European champion had to bid goodbye to high performance sport at the peak of his career because of persistent health issues that couldn't be resolved even through surgeries. "It's still hard to accept," Iserbyt said on VTM...

The 2026 season is meant to be the one where Jonas Vingegaard finally accepts the challenge of Tadej Pogacar and re-takes the Tour de France throne with an ambitious Giro-Tour plan. However the year started far from ideal as on one of his training rides earlier this week, the Dane lost control over...

The most striking takeaway from Mathieu van der Poel’s cyclocross winter is not simply the results, but the trajectory. What began as a campaign won on control and experience has evolved into something far more decisive. According to a Dutch former professional, the version now on display is not on...

The clearest assessment of the men’s Cyclocross World Championships build-up has come not from a rival rider, but from the Belgian camp itself. With Mathieu van der Poel arriving in Hulst after a winter of near-total control, Belgium’s national coach Angelo De Clercq has been strikingly open about...

Winning a race is special at any point in a season. Doing it on your birthday, in brutal conditions, makes it something else entirely. That was the reality for Antonio Morgado after he delivered victory for UAE Team Emirates - XRG at the Trofeo Calvia, timing his sprint perfectly from a reduced fron...

Victory for Antonio Morgado at the Trofeo Calvia marked a perfect start to the Challenge Mallorca for UAE, but for UAE Team Emirates - XRG teammate Benoit Cosnefroy, the win came with a more complex emotional edge. Cosnefroy crossed the line well down the order after a day spent working for the team...

Antonio Morgado delivered a measured and composed performance to win the Trofeo Calvia, striking late from a heavily reduced front group after a demanding day of rain, climbing and repeated selection on the roads of Mallorca. The opening race of the Challenge Mallorca was shaped from the outset by g...

What was meant to be a short, controlled return to racing has turned into something more expansive. As Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe begin to put their 2026 season into motion, Remco Evenepoel has decided to extend his Challenge Mallorca programme, adding two extra race days in a move driven as much b...

On the 26th of January, you'd expect there to be a clean sheet of riders who are continuing their career into 2026, and those who are not. However, not everything is either black or white, as a few riders remain in the grey zone. More specifically, 40 of them, as is publicly known. A few World Tour...

Jonathan Milan could hardly have asked for a stronger start to his 2026 season. After backing up his Stage 1 success with another commanding sprint victory on Stage 2 of the AlUla Tour, the Italian left little doubt about both his form and Lidl-Trek’s early-season authority. The second stage was far...

Jonathan Milan powered to victory on Stage 2 of the AlUla Tour, completing a perfect sprint finish for Lidl-Trek after a day repeatedly shaped, but ultimately not decided, by crosswinds in the Saudi desert. Having already claimed the opening stage, Milan made it two wins from two by converting a tex...

Germán Darío Gómez has spoken publicly for the first time since being provisionally suspended by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), describing the situation as one of “total surprise and uncertainty” and insisting that his career has always been built on clean conduct. The 25-year-old issued a...

Tobias Johannessen is not talking louder after his breakthrough Tour de France. He is talking more precisely. The ambition is clear, the limits are acknowledged, and the focus for 2026 is firmly on refinement rather than reinvention. After finishing sixth overall at the 2025 Tour de France, the best...

The clearest assessment of the Cyclocross World Championships this week did not come from a rival team, a pundit, or an outsider. It came from inside Alpecin-Premier Tech itself. For Tibor Del Grosso, the question of gold in Hulst is already answered. “Winning gold against Mathieu? Not possible,” De...

For Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, the road to July begins quietly, deliberately, and far from the glare of the Tour de France. But make no mistake, the Mallorca Challenge marks the first tangible step in a Tour project that now sits at the heart of the team’s 2026 ambitions. At the centre of it is Fl...

The riders’ union has taken a hard stance against the idea of a power data passport in professional cycling, with CPA president Adam Hansen insisting there is no appetite in the peloton for the concept to move beyond its current pilot stage. “Now they’re only testing it this year with four teams, an...

After more than six months away from racing, Enric Mas will finally pin on a race number again this week, marking the true start of his 2026 season. His comeback comes at the Trofeo Ses Salines as part of the Challenge Mallorca, a race held this year as a team time trial and one that carries both sp...

Pavel Sivakov made the switch from INEOS Grenadiers to UAE Team Emirates - XRG in 2024 and he considers it to have been the ideal decision. The Frenchman continues to have his own chances to chase results, whilst at the same time he has become a key part of Tadej Pogacar's Tour de France block.  Siv...

The 2026 season has just kicked off, and with that comes the first UCI ranking update of the year. The first week of racing only featured races in two countries. On the one hand, we had the first World Tour event of the season, the Tour Down Under. On the other hand, three one-day races took place i...

Seven hours in the saddle, more than four thousand metres of elevation gain, and a round number that always commands respect: 200 kilometres. That’s how Tom Pidcock sums up his latest and most demanding training session, logged on Strava with barely a comment but loaded with meaning as he builds for...

Jonas Vingegaard has not started 2026 with the ideal month, as in the last days of January he has suffered a training crash that has left him with a bloodied face. More details about the fall are shared and it can be understood that there is a possibility that the Dane fell due to an amateur rider t...

João Almeida is starting his season next week at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana and will take on a very important year in his career, where his importance at UAE Team Emirates - XRG remains just as high, and he will return to the Giro d'Italia in an attempt to win it. The Portuguese spoke out to t...

Although he spent two years away from the team, Ben Swift was part of the first-ever Team Sky squad back in 2010, and is the active rider who has spent the most years in the British team. The 38-year old is going to be racing yet another year at World Tour level and doesn't have retirement as an imm...

The 2026 AlUla Tour will take place from the 27th to the 31st of January and will open up the action on the Asia Tour. In Saudi Arabia, the young race will host some top sprinters and several other riders throughout its five stages. We take a look at the race's startlist.  The AlUla Tour has rapidly...

Stage 2 of the AlUla Tour will be taking place on the 28th of January, with an estimated start and finish time at 10:50 and 14:00CET. This will be another day where the sprinters will take to the front as the entire day of racing is as flat as a pancake, however as we've been able to see on the open...

Reports in Italy over the weekend suggested a landslide near Arenzano could have forced a route tweak for the upcoming Milano–Sanremo. In the Ligurian coast, this is not too unusual, however the situation seems to remain stable with month and a half left to go.  Arenzano is a routine waypoint on th...

The Challenge Mallorca 2026 will once again be one of the major launchpads of the international season, and UAE Team Emirates-XRG will line up with a well-balanced blend of proven experience and emerging talent. The Emirati squad has confirmed its rosters for the five races that make up this histo...

It’s no surprise that Team Visma | Lease a Bike unveils a technological leap each season to gain an edge in the peloton, and 2026 will be no exception. This time, though, the team is keeping suspense at its peak: the new “marginal gain” already exists, but it remains under wraps. In recent years, th...

Stefan Küng will wear the black and red of Tudor Pro Cycling for the first time this week at the Challenge Mallorca. Convinced that a change of team can help him make the final step, the Swiss opens this new chapter aiming to go toe to toe with Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel to fight for vic...

The Trofeo Calvia is the first out of the Challenge Mallorca races and takes place on the 28th of January, starting at 12:25CET and finishing at 16:05CET. We preview the race ahead.  The Trofeo Calvià is one of the most traditional early-season one-day races on the European calendar, kicking off the...

On the 31st of January the women's peloton will take on the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, which will start and finish at 02:40 and 06:30CET respectively. We take a look at its profile.  The Australian race revolves around the city of Geelong, with deep connections to Cadel Evans. It is a mostly...

The Trofeo Calvia is the first out of the Challenge Mallorca races and takes place on the 28th of January, starting at 12:25CET and finishing at 16:05CET. We take a look at its startlist.  The Trofeo Calvià is one of the most traditional early-season one-day races on the European calendar, kicking o...

The UCI has announced that Colombian rider Germán Darío Gómez Becerra has been notified of an Adverse Analytical Finding for the presence of boldenone and one of its metabolites in a sample collected out of competition on the 28th of December. The Team Polti VisitMalta rider has been suspended.  In...

Sjoerd Bax is a rider who has made the switch from UAE Team Emirates - XRG to Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, which many would interpret as a step down into a less professional team, however that is not quite the case. The Swiss rider also has the privilege of working with Tom Pidcock since last s...

The Hulst World Championships will provide Mathieu van der Poel with the chance of conquering an eighth rainbow jersey in cyclocross, and will also provide van der Poel with an opportunity to retire from the discipline whenever he desires. This might be this weekend, or in a few years, but the Dutch...

Jonas Vingegaard's crash this Monday in training has sparked a debate that seemed to be in the making for a long time. Pro cyclists train on open roads, and often alone - even if they are on training camps - however when does the request for pictures and following wheels become too much? It is a fin...

Lidl-Trek were the team to beat at the AlUla Tour today, however when strong crosswinds blew the peloton apart and left only three out of their riders in the 18-rider group up front, Jonathan Milan's victory was put into jeopardy. However, the German team held it together and the Italian managed to...

Stage 1 of the AlUla Tour has been won by Jonathan Milan. Lidl-Trek have delivered on the expectations, being part of the front group that stood out during the crosswinds with several riders, and then successfully aiding the Italian into a sprint victory.  The day's breakaway on the opening stage fe...

On the 27th of January, the transfer market remains open and active. Filip Maciejuk has signed with Movistar Team, a move that was confirmed today as the rider did not have his Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe contract renewed.  “Signing for Movistar Team means a lot to me. I’m extremely happy and, above...

Jonas Vingegaard experienced a tense moment on Monday after being involved in a crash while training in southern Spain. The incident had no major consequences and the Danish rider is in good condition, Team Visma | Lease a Bike confirmed shortly after it happened. The Dutch squad explained that the...

Tom Dumoulin was part of Team Visma | Lease a Bike for several years up to his retirement, and despite being a top level rider, he succumbed to the demands of the sport and the team he was part of. It can almost be said that he is the rider who understand Simon Yates the best, after the Briton decid...

We are in the middle of the Australian summer and the extreme heat has been leaving its mark on professional cycling. At the Tour Down Under, the Old Willunga Hill was removed from the route last minute due to the extreme risk of wildfires. Now, the Surf Coast Classic has been cancelled for the same...

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. Here is the start-finish time, as well as where to watch the Australian race live, not only in Australia but also the USA and UK.  *UPDATE: The Surf Coast Classic has be...

The 2026 AlUla Tour will be taking place from the 27th to the 31st of January and will open up the action on the Asia Tour. In Saudi Arabia, the young race will host some top sprinters and several other riders throughout its five stages. Here is where to watch the race live, including on the United...

Stage 1 of the AlUla Tour will be taking place on the 27th of January, with an estimated start and finish time at 10:45 and 14:05CET. The opening day of the race starts in a camel track, and at the start line will be Jonathan Milan of Lidl-Trek, who is the star of the startlist, and will begin the s...

The 2026 AlUla Tour will be taking place from the 27th to the 31st of January and will open up the action on the Asia Tour. In Saudi Arabia, the young race will host some top sprinters and several other riders throughout its five stages. We take a look at its profiles and route; as well as an overal...

After a legendary 2025 season, Tadej Pogacar stands unrivaled at the summit of the sport, having secured a fourth Tour de France title, defended his Rainbow Jersey in Rwanda, and added yet another Il Lombardia. However, despite his absolute dominance, there are two races he has not been able to conq...

Jay Vine has again taken center stage at the start of the season after winning the Tour Down Under. The Australian sealed overall victory however he did so with a broken wrist. As it is now known, Vine actually did get injured after his collision with a kangaroo.  The race, however, ended overshadow...

The road season is underway. Yet many stars and rising talents have not officially debuted. In that latter group is Jarno Widar, who in 2026 will be central to the new project created by the Lotto and Intermarché merger. A rapid leap to the WorldTour for the European U23 road champion. During the...

Jon Dutton, CEO of British Cycling since April 2023, has announced he will step down this summer to take charge of the British Olympic Association (BOA). The news, made official on Monday, marks the end of a spell in which Dutton steered the organisation through a complicated period caused by the Br...

Changing colours is rarely straightforward, but Luke Lamperti seems to have settled quickly. The American sprinter heads into 2026 with EF Education-EasyPost after ending his spell at Soudal - Quick-Step, and his first impressions after the Tour Down Under could hardly be more positive. Stepping awa...

The Monuments have become playground of Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel in the past seasons as the duo raised their arms on 14 out of 16 most recent races. That is why all the teams scratching their heads, trying to figure out a way to dethrone the two "kings" of one-day racing. But so far, n...

From the 28th of January to the 1st of February, the peloton will take on the Challenge Mallorca. The five-day event is split between five one-day races, each with very different courses and suited to different riders. This includes the Trofeo Calvia, Trofeo Ses Salines, Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana,...

Racing in Australia is not for the weak during the month of January, and perhaps no other rider has learnt this in a more difficult way than Mikkel Bjerg. A kangaroo caused a crash on the final stage of the Australian race but if there is anyone who will not find it amusing, it is the UAE Team Emira...

The Challenge Mallorca begins this week and with it comes one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the winter. Remco Evenepoel is going to be racing in the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe jersey for the first time, as he gears up for the Trofeo Ses Salines where he will be testing out his new time tr...

Iván Romeo has cemented his status as one of Movistar Team’s brightest prospects. At just age 22 and heading into his fourth season with the squad, the Spaniard expects to take a step forward in 2026. His winter has laid the groundwork for what is going to be an ambitious year, however with a great...

Tibor del Grosso has finished second once again at the Hoogerheide World Cup race, after having the same result in Maasmechelen, and has put himself in a strong position to gather a medal at the Hulst World Championships. He didn't have the easiest of times in the final World Cup of the season but n...

Matthew Brennan’s Tour Down Under victory was built on conviction rather than opportunism, with Team Visma | Lease a Bike committing fully to the 20-year-old in the closing kilometres of the final stage and being rewarded with a decisive sprint victory. Inside the team, there was little sense of sur...

The 2026 AlUla Tour will take place from the 27th to the 31st of January and will open up the action on the Asia Tour. In Saudi Arabia, the young race will host some top sprinters and several other riders throughout its five stages. We take a look at the prize money that will be handed out.  The AlU...

Mathieu van der Poel did not just win in Hoogerheide. He finished the World Cup season looking like a rider already operating in the exact mode that decides the Spring Classics: measured early, ruthless when he chooses to go, and clinically error-free when the pace turns into separation. That is why...

Marc Soler has ridden every single Tour de France since 2018, and every season since joining UAE Team Emirates - XRG in 2022, he's been part of the Tour de France lineup supporting Tadej Pogacar. In 2026 he will do it again, and he has begun his season close to home in Spain eyeing the Grand Tours l...

Dylan Groenewegen has ridden his first race for the Unibet Rose Rockets and it couldn't have gone any better. The Dutch sprinter has taken his first win since June and had a perfect collective job and leadout to help him win the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana, under the guidance of Marcel Kittel in t...

For a development rider just beginning his journey inside one of cycling’s most scrutinised teams, the moment that often defines belief is not a result, but presence. For Davide Frigo, that moment came with the return of Dave Brailsford to day-to-day involvement at INEOS Grenadiers. “He has a very s...

The mentality of professional cyclists varies from rider to rider and there are different mentalities in the peloton regarding how to perform, train, and communicate. From within Team Visma | Lease a Bike, it was possible to understand that Simon Yates was a more reserved person, and Sepp Kuss admit...

From the 28th of January to the 1st of February, the peloton will take on the Challenge Mallorca. The five-day event is split between five one-day races, each with very different courses and suited to different riders. This includes the Trofeo Calvia, Trofeo Ses Salines, Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana,...

Cofidis has confirmed that they will not participate in the 2026 Giro d'Italia, opting to utilize the flexibility granted by their new ProTeam status. After finishing 19th in the UCI rankings last season and losing their WorldTour license, the French squad secured automatic invitations to all top-ti...

Tony Gallopin has resigned from his position as sports director at Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe, ending his tenure with the German team less than four months after his arrival. The 37-year-old Frenchman, who joined the squad on October last year as part of a major management restructuring, cited personal...

As the 2025-26 UCI Cyclocross World Cup has just ended, organizers are already looking ahead with significant optimism. Flanders Classics CEO Tomas Van Den Spiegel has revealed that interest in hosting future rounds has surged, hinting at a potential expansion of the series for the 2026-27 season. W...

Harry Sweeny has started the 2026 season in style. The 27-year-old Australian rider finished the Tour Down Under in third place after being given the opportunity to lead the American squad for the first time in a major event. The result might be a potential turning point for Sweeny, who has spent th...

The Portuguese Anti-Doping Authority (ADoP) has confirmed lengthy suspensions for two experienced Portuguese riders, further deepening the scrutiny on the domestic peloton. Venceslau Fernandes has been handed a six-year ban, while Rafael Silva has received a four-year sanction, adding to a growing l...

Javi Cubillas completed his first race day alongside the professional peloton on Friday, debuting at the Classica Camp de Morvedre. The young Movistar Team rider, who notably declined an approach from UAE Team Emirates last year, didn't have an easy debut in Spain. "It is impressive how they race, b...

The record finally changing hands did little to alter Sven Nys’ perspective. After watching Mathieu van der Poel move clear with his 51st World Cup victory in Hoogerheide, the former benchmark holder reacted not with nostalgia or defensiveness, but with a knowing smile. “Maybe I should apply for a l...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike are heading into the 2026 season with more questions hanging over them than at any point in recent years. The shock retirement of Simon Yates has removed a proven Grand Tour winner from their plans, creating a late and unexpected hole in a structure that had already been ca...

Dylan Groenewegen claimed victory at the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana after converting a perfectly judged sprint from a reduced front group that had formed in the crosswinds on the run-in to Valencia. What initially looked like a straightforward sprint day was transformed inside the final 40 kilome...

For Thibau Nys, the World Cup round in Hoogerheide ended with a sense of unfinished business. Fourth place was the result on paper, but the frustration stemmed from how close the podium had been, and how quickly it slipped away in the closing metres. “I don’t have much to say about it,” Nys admitted...

Mathieu van der Poel left Hoogerheide not just with another dominant victory, but with a record that finally places him alone at the top of World Cup history. By securing his 51st career World Cup win, the reigning world champion moved clear of Sven Nys and underlined his status as the defining cyc...

The men’s World Cup race in Hoogerheide concluded with a moment of history as Mathieu van der Poel powered to his 51st career World Cup victory, moving clear of Sven Nys to stand alone as the most successful rider in the competition’s history. Van der Poel’s win was never in doubt once he made his m...

Puck Pieterse left Hoogerheide with another World Cup win, but her focus was already fixed firmly on what comes next. After completing a flawless weekend with back-to-back victories, the Dutch rider made it clear that the bigger target remains the World Championships in Hulst. Speaking after the rac...

The women’s World Cup race in Hoogerheide delivered a tense and constantly shifting contest, but it was Puck Pieterse who emerged strongest once again, sealing a second consecutive victory and carrying maximum confidence into the World Championships in Hulst. After an opening phase marked by repeate...

It would almost sound like a joke, but it happened today at the Tour Down Under. The kangaroos are one of Australia's most iconic animals, but today they have jumped out on the road and into the cycling race's peloton. This led to a crash that involved race leader Jay Vine who had his race and overa...

Jay Vine has just confirmed his victory at the 2026 Tour Down Under, and this has greatly been due to his performance on the stage to Uraidla. Vine is an extraordinary climber, and this week he showed his best legs back home in Australia, which has restarted the questions on what else he could poten...

Pro cycling has changed a lot over the past few decades and one of the most notable aspects was the attention to detail when it comes to training and nutrition. Whilst creating better athletes, it creates a large obstacle in the way of becoming a professional rider, and it turns the riders into 'rob...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike travelled to Australia with its main focus on supporting Matthew Brennan into a stage win. It didn't seem as if it was going to happen after the Briton missed out on it in the first three sprints of the race; but on the final day he achieved this in what was perhaps the mos...

The 2026 Tour Down Under has finished and the winner was undisputed. Jay Vine has conquered the overall classification of the first World Tour event of the year, repeating his achievement of 2023.  Vine certainly did not have a relaxed final day on the bike, with the riders taking on the Stirling ci...

As is often the case in a stage race of this intensity, the 2026 Tour Down Under will no doubt see a number of riders forced to abandon due to crashes, illness, and other racing incidents. Keep track of all incidents and withdrawals throughout the race right here! Nothing to note. Jardi Christiaan v...

The Tour Down Under is not just decided by legs and tactics. Every day, a quieter story runs alongside the racing: the jury decisions that shape behaviour in the bunch, on the roadside and inside team cars. This article tracks every fine, warning and sanction handed out during the 2026 Tour Down Und...

Stage 5 of the 2026 Tour Down Under finished in Stirling and although the hilly circuit provided some attacks and it led to an aggressive race, the peloton arrived to the finish together and Jay Vine confirmed the overall win. Matthew Brennan of Team Visma | Lease a Bike took the victory on the fina...

Simon Carr is preparing for his second season with Cofidis after a difficult 2025 campaign marked by medical setbacks. The British climber, who transferred from EF Education-EasyPost with high expectations, was limited to just 26 race days last year due to a combination of knee surgery and illness....

Mattia Agostinacchio will not compete in the remaining races of the cyclocross calendar. The 18-year-old Italian has decided to end his season early to recover from a viral infection that has hampered his recent performances, with his focus now shifting to his professional road debut. Agostinacchio...

Jonathan Milan will not defend his points classification title at the Tour de France this July, with Lidl-Trek confirming a strategic shift for the 2026 season. Despite an excellent performance last year that saw him claim two stages and the Green Jersey, the Italian sprinter is set to prioritize th...

Tiesj Benoot will begin the 2026 cycling season in new colors, having traded the yellow and black of Team Visma | Lease a Bike for the kit of Decathlon CMA CGM Team. After four successful years with the Dutch formation, the Belgian rider has spoken about his decision to step out of his comfort zone...

The off-season has been a busy one for Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, in which they have secured the services of one of the best riders in the world: Remco Evenepoel. But with great talent comes a complex management puzzle. According to Chris Horner, there is "drama brewing" within the German structur...

For the first time in two years, Lucinda Brand has finished a cyclo-cross race off the podium. The dominant force of the 2025-2026 season, who had already secured the overall World Cup title, crossed the line in 10th place at the penultimate round in Maasmechelen. The result brings an end to a remar...

The UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in Maasmechelen began with a moment of serious concern on Saturday, as Joran Wyseure was carried off the course on a stretcher following a heavy crash just meters after the starting gun. He is skipping Hoogerheide and his participation in next weekend’s World Championsh...

Round 11 of the cyclocross World Cup will take place this Sunday, January 25th, in Hoogerheide. This is the final World Cup round in which Mathieu van der Poel and Lucinda Brand will be crowned winners. We take a look at the startlist of the race; favourites; and where to watch it online, on TV, in...

For Thibau Nys, the Maasmechelen World Cup was not about results or records, but about limitations. One week before the world championships in Hulst, the Belgian champion rode consistently at the front yet finished fourth, left searching for rhythm on a day when others, most notably Mathieu van der...

The sprinter-focused Classica Comunitat Valenciana will be taking place on the 25th of January, starting at 12:00CET and finishing at 17:00CET. We take a look at the profile of the race that is set to finish in the city of Valencia itself and preview it.  The Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana is a histo...

Racing the cobbled classics is, currently, less and less a matter of tactics, but rather power. Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar have become such great dominators of the spring classics that it's become hard for anyone to even come close, and Tiesj Benoot argues that other riders should stop c...

For a brief spell in Maasmechelen, Tibor del Grosso found himself in a position few riders have occupied this winter, alone at the front with Mathieu van der Poel temporarily out of the picture. It did not last, but it said plenty about the race, and about the rider who ultimately reclaimed control....

Records can fall quietly. This one did not. In Maasmechelen, Mathieu van der Poel survived his most turbulent race of the winter to reach 50 World Cup victories, drawing level with the benchmark that had defined modern cyclocross for a decade. The context matters. So do the words of the man whose ma...

When seasoned Tour de France commentators talk about “legacy”, they are rarely referring to a UCI 2.2 race. Yet that was the lens through which Ned Boulting viewed the inaugural Pune Grand Tour, as European observers digested what they had witnessed on Indian roads during the five-day stage race. “I...

Inside Team Visma | Lease a Bike, the Giro d’Italia is no longer being spoken about as an endpoint. For riders tasked with doing the hardest work in the mountains, the tone around the race has shifted, and Bart Lemmen has quietly articulated why. Speaking ahead of the new season, the 30-year-old all...

Michael Matthews’ victory at the Gran Premio Castellon carried significance well beyond the result itself. By winning again in 2026, the Australian has now recorded at least one professional victory in 16 different seasons, placing him firmly in pursuit of one of professional cycling’s most exclusiv...

Michael Matthews powered to victory at the Gran Premio Castellón, finishing off a controlled Team Jayco AlUla performance with a decisive sprint on the rising finish in Onda. After a race shaped by a long-lived early breakaway and a late but ultimately unsuccessful acceleration from several of the f...

Mathieu van der Poel’s victory in Maasmechelen will be remembered not just for what it secured, but for how it was achieved. In a race defined by punctures, pressure and repeated swings of momentum, the world champion claimed his 50th World Cup cyclocross win, drawing level with Sven Nys after the...

The men’s World Cup race in Maasmechelen delivered the most dramatic test of the winter, but Mathieu van der Poel emerged with his unbeaten run intact, surviving two punctures, a delayed bike change and multiple late scares to secure his 50th career World Cup victory. Chaos defined the race from the...

The men’s World Cup race in Maasmechelen was overshadowed by a heavy crash at the very start, with Joran Wyseure left in visible pain on the asphalt following an early incident. Wyseure crashed just seconds after the start when he slipped out of his pedals on the tarmac, bringing down Pim Ronhaar in...

In cyclocross, hesitation is often punished more harshly than aggression. On a cold January afternoon in Maasmechelen, Puck Pieterse chose decisiveness, and in doing so reignited her World Cup season at the most critical moment of the winter. Her move was as simple as it was ruthless. Seeing Amandin...

The Maasmechelen World Cup has delivered high-octane action today in the women's race as for the first time in years, Lucinda Brand did not manage to finish on the podium, and neither did Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado, which opened way for other riders to take the spotlight. Puck Pieterse grabbed this...

Round 10 of the cyclocross World Cup will take place this Saturday, January 24th, in Maasmechelen. Mathieu van der Poel will be in the race where he is expected to virtually confirm his World Cup win, as the World Championships loom closer and closer. We take a look at the startlist of the race; fav...

We preview stage 5 of the Tour Down Under that is set to take place on the 25th January, having an estimated start time at 01:41CET and finishing at 05:40CET. The final day of the race will see Jay Vine begin in the race lead, but he and the thinned down UAE Team Emirates - XRG will face a challenge...

Up until stage 3, UAE Team Emirates - XRG dominated the Tour Down Under and was virtually in a perfect position. After stage 4, Jay Vine remains in the lead, but the team has several men out of the race or in a bad position due to the crashes that have been affecting it. Into the final stage, the hi...

Ethan Vernon has had a strong prologue but wasn't able to show his legs during the pure sprint stages at the Tour Down Under. However today, after stage 4's route was changed, the Briton found himself in perfect position and took a dominant win - the first in NSN Cycling Team's history.  Temperature...

Stage 4 of the Tour Down Under was originally meant to see the riders go up the Old Willunga Hill on three occasions, but this was ultimately not the case after the extreme fire warning. It was a day for the sprinters, but nevertheless it became a stage that saw many changes in the overall standings...

The season has barely just started and Noemi Rüegg already delivered one of the most epic performances we might see throughout the rest of this season. The setting: Tour Down Under, final stage with a double ascent up the Corkscrew Road. Rüegg is among the four best riders the second time up the 2.5...

Decathlon CMA GCM Team put their network staff to work during the past transfer market to secure a notable boost to the team's overall strength. While the arrival of young sprinter Olav Kooij was perhaps window-defining, however the recruitments of Tiesj Benoot, Matthew Riccitello or recent Tour Dow...

NSN Cycling Team have taken their very first win since its creation, as Ethan Vernon soared to victory in Willunga at the end of stage 4 at the Tour Down Under. It was a difficult sprint, but one in which the Briton succeeded.  The stage already began under very different circumstances when comparin...

Victor Lafay has been one of Unibet Rose Rockets' star signings this past winter. The former Tour de France stage winner is supposed to anchor the French-Dutch team's hilly classics team while he hunts individual successes in longer stage races. And yet, for some reason, you could run into Lafay in...

Tadej Pogacar will have an opportunity to mirror Peter Sagan's iconic World Championship three-peat at the end of September later this year. And as the Slovenian is more than familiar with the Mont Royal circuit (won GP Montreal in 2022 and 2024), the Belgians led by Remco Evenepoel and Wout Van Aer...

Romain Bardet's road career came its conclusion last June at the home stage race Critérium du Dauphiné (now known as Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes). However the 35-year-old climber who stood on a Tour de France podium twice in his career still feels too fresh to simply sit idly and enjoy his retiremen...

It seemed as though Visma | Lease a Bike have stumbled upon a gamechanger for Paris-Roubaix when they joined forces with Gravaa. The Dutch company brought onto the cycling scene a technical innovation that could revolutionize tactical approach to the French Monument as well as other cobbled Classics...

The 2026 season is set to be a big adventure for Uno-X Mobility. Until now, the Norwegian team would have only done the Tour de France three times. However they were never invited to either Giro d'Italia or Vuelta a Espana. That changes this year though as the WorldTour team license comes with privi...

Reassurance has now turned into something far more tangible. The latest images shared by Wout van Aert on Instagram from Visma’s training camp in Spain show a rider already deep into proper workload again, not cautiously testing an ankle but training as if spring objectives remain fully intact. The...

INEOS Grenadiers has struggled to perform in the Grand Tours over the past few years and simultaneously, it struggled to capture new Grand Tour stars in the market. Hence, as UAE and Visma had their teams largely decided and weren't on the hunt for new leaders, the British team had to go all-out to...

Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe are not trying to become the best team in the world. At least, not in the traditional sense. As the team moves into 2026 with its biggest names now aligned around the Tour de France, Ralph Denk has made it clear that the project is being built around something slightly di...

The idea of Mikel Landa riding all three of cycling's Grand Tours in a single season has always felt more like romantic speculation than a realistic plan. Yet heading into 2026, the conversation has shifted from fantasy to conditional possibility. Not because of public ambition, but because the req...

The Gran Premio Castellón is going to be the second Spanish race of the early season and will take place on the 24th of January. It is expected to start at 12:36CET and finish at 16:30CET. We take a look at the profile of the Spanish race.  The Gran Premio Castellón – Ruta de la Cerámica has quickly...

At a team shaped around the presence of Tadej Pogacar, clarity of role is essential. For Jan Christen, looking ahead to 2026 has meant embracing that reality, while also identifying where his own path can continue to open up inside one of cycling’s most stacked rosters at UAE Team Emirates - XRG. “I...

While the 2026 road season is already underway following the Tour Down Under, Friday marked the first one-day race of the European calendar with the 2026 edition of the Classica Camp de Morvedre. A strong field featuring riders such as Ivan Romeo, Pablo Castrillo, Antonio Morgado, Christian Scaroni...

For most of his career, Filippo Ganna has been defined by raw power. World titles against the clock, Olympic gold on the track, and an engine capable of sustaining numbers few in the peloton can touch have long marked him out as one of cycling’s most formidable specialists. Heading into 2026, howeve...

From the 23rd to the 25th of January, the European racing calendar begins in the Valencia region of Spain. Many teams are training and preparing the 2026 season there, and there will be three consecutive events in the region: The Classica Camp de Morvedre; Gran Premio Castellón and Clàssica Comunita...

Modern Adventure Pro Cycling have not been given a gentle introduction to life at the top level. Before the new US team have even turned a pedal in their first season, they are already being dropped straight into one of the sport’s toughest arenas, with confirmation of their first ever WorldTour inv...

The idea of Tadej Pogacar finally lining up in Australia has never been far from the surface at the Tour Down Under, but this week it gained a rare sense of momentum. Not because of a startlist announcement or a calendar shift, but because someone from Pogacar’s inner circle is on the ground, watch...

The Gran Premio Castellón is going to be the second Spanish race of the early season and will take place on the 24th of January. We take a look at the race's startlist and riders.  The Gran Premio Castellón – Ruta de la Cerámica has quickly established itself as one of Spain’s most compelling early-...

In an interview at Fitur published by the AS, Alberto Contador answered ten quick-fire questions. The Madrid-born former rider, now head of Team Polti VisitMalta and an Eurosport pundit, reviewed his career, most personal memories, and take on cycling in a direct format.  The first question was inev...

We preview stage 4 of the Tour Down Under that is set to take place on the 24th January, having an estimated start time at 01:40CET and finishing at 05:40CET. The stage was going to, initially, take the riders up the Old Willunga Hill on three occasions, however it has been changed due to the extrem...

Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under was raced aggressively at times, but the outlook of the overall classification remained the same. However, UAE Team Emirates - XRG are one significant step closer to the overall win after the cancellation of the ascent to Old Willunga Hill on stage 4.  This does indeed...

Stage 3 into Nairne ended up having a finale that was raced harder than expected, with the breakaway's Enzo Paleni forcing the peloton to go all-out just to be able to make the catch. This took Sam Welsford to the limit on the small climbs, but, with perfect timing, INEOS Grenadiers brought him back...

The Santos Tour Down Under has announced a major adjustment to the men’s Stage 4 due to extreme conditions forecast in the region. The Old Willunga Hill will not be climbed due to extreme heat and fire risk, changing the outlook of the race dramatically.  The organisers took the decision after an “...

EF Education-EasyPost travelled to the Tour Down Under with a modest lineup, however thus far they are presenting strong results. Michael Leonard is making his debut for the team and after stage 2 into Uraidla, he is in the lead of the youth classification; Whilst Harry Sweeny has climbed to fourth...

The Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior keeps strengthening its line-up with headline names. The race, sponsored by the Diputación de Jaén and held around the UNESCO World Heritage city of Úbeda, now adds the Swiss team Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling to the list of participants. The team will be led by Tom P...

Wout Poels is a rider who in his career finished 6th overall at La Vuelta (twice), won the Liege-Bastogne-Liege, and played a key part in multiple Grand Tour victories of his team. However, for what could turn out to be his final professional season, the 38-year-old signed up for a project which doe...

Sam Welsford had his final opportunity to win today at the Tour Down Under but he delivered. INEOS Grenadiers timed their leadout to perfection in Nairne and managed to deliver the Australian to a stage win in the final bunch sprint.  The breakaway on stage 3 was formed by Enzo Paleni of Groupama -...

Patrick Eddy's stint at WorldTour level ended last winter after two seasons with Picnic PostNL, however little did anyone know the best was yet to come for the Australian. Eddy had hardly any valuable results of his own during the time with the Dutch team, making his elite National title all the mor...

The cyclocross World Championships in Hulst have lost some of its spark. Without injured Wout Van Aert, the main event, elite men's race seems to have a known winner already far in advance with the seven-time world champion Mathieu van der Poel seemingly out of anyone's reach again this winter. But...

Mathieu van der Poel’s future in cyclocross is no longer being discussed only in terms of trophies or dominance. It is now being framed around something far bigger: how much the road, and especially the challenge of Tadej Pogacar, is starting to reshape the choices in front of him. The idea that Van...

Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling have adopted quite an unorthodox approach to their off-season preparation. While most of their rivals are currently racking up kilometers in sunny Spain, a compact expedition of seven, including Tom Pidcock, travelled across the globe to the cycling-exotic land of Chile....

INEOS Grenadiers has spent huge resources this past winter to sign Oscar Onley from Team Picnic PostNL, and there are big questions on what the team's GC block will look like beyond 2026. There are plenty big names, and a few are ending their contract. One such is Egan Bernal, however, it is possibl...

A few months ago, it was feared that Sam Bennett's career may come to an end, after a few difficult years. Following two seasons with Decathlon CMA CGM Team, he signed a one-year deal with Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team in hopes of reviving his career. However, in November Bennett wa...

The Classica Camp de Morvedre will take place on the 23rd of January and will be the first race of the European calendar in 2026. We take a look at the startlist which features several World Tour teams.  The Classica Camp de Morvedre holds a unique place as the first race in the European cycling cal...

The Classica Camp de Morvedre will take place on the 23rd of January and will be the first race of the European calendar in 2026. It is estimated to start at 12:18CET and finish at 16:25CET.  The Classica Camp de Morvedre holds a unique place as the first race in the European cycling calendar as a r...

Alpecin-Deceuninck is a team fully focused on the classics and sprints, and whilst it has a very high level, it is highly focused on Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen. Whilst the team had many quality classics riders, some even combining it with cyclocross, some have departed in search of mo...

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is an early-season UCI World Tour one-day cycling classic held in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It features both men’s and women’s World Tour races, scheduled for late January 2026 (women’s race on Saturday, January 31 and men’s race on Sunday, February 1). Thi...

The ProTeam division sees a new team this year in Modern Adventure Pro Cycling, the USA's newest top team which is aiming to race the Tour de France within the next decade. It is led by George Hincapie, but another former pro, Bobby Julich, will have an important role in guiding the American riders...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike is the team that challenges UAE Team Emirates - XRG the most, however in 2026, they want to move away from having the Grand Tours as absolute priorities, but instead put more emphasis on the monuments as well. Matteo Jorgenson, an incredibly versatile rider and world-class...

Team Jayco AlUla came to the Tour Down Under with high ambitions as the home team and with a full set of leaders, just like UAE Team Emirates - XRG. However, after stage 2, it's become apparent that it's not the home riders that will carry the responsibility into Old Willunga Hill, but instead Mauro...

The road season kicks off next Tuesday, 20 January, a very special day. The Tour Down Under 2026 will begin, kicking off the men's world tour calendar. We take a look at how to watch the race in Australia, the United States, and Great Britain, whilst showcasing the dates and schedules for all stages...

We preview stage 3 of the Tour Down Under that is set to take place on the 23rd January, having an estimated start time at 02:10CET and finishing at 05:10CET. Following UAE's domination in Uraidla, this is going to be a day that should finish in a sprint, however with a few climbs on the day where w...

The Tour Down Under has imploded on the Corkscrew climb, and by the time stage 2 finished, UAE Team Emirates - XRG have placed themselves in a position where losing the overall classification looks nearly impossible. A terrific climbing performance on today's stage saw Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narváez...

Stage 2 was likely to be the queen stage of the 2026 Tour Down Under, however few would've expected the gaps created to be so large. UAE Team Emirates - XRG was head and shoulders above the rest of the field today, and by the time Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narváez arrived to Uraidla, they already carrie...

Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol is finalizing the details of an edition that will once again place the race among the most attractive on the international calendar. With less than a month to go until the start set for February 18th in the Málaga town of Benahavís, the roster of teams for th...

UAE Team Emirates - XRG have virtually sealed the faith of the 2026 Tour Down Under as on stage 2 to Uraidla, the team exploded the climb to the Corkscrew, which led to an attack from Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narváez that was not followed by anyone. The gaps are huge and the team is heading to a certai...

The 2026 season is already underway, and Fernando Gaviria’s debut with his new team is getting closer. In the last transfer window, the Colombian sprinter left Movistar Team after the Spanish squad chose not to renew him, but he found a new home in Spain by signing with Caja Rural - Seguros RGA. Wil...

Broken collarbone has become such a regular aspect of professional cycling, that it's become a saying that if you haven't broken one in your career, you aren't a true professional. But is there really nothing that can be done to reduce the risk in times of crashes? In Picnic PostNL, one solution is...

Jenno Berckmoes made a name for himself in 2025 by winning the queen stage of Baloise Belgium Tour and arriving top-10 at Gent-Wevelgem as well as one of the opening week hilly Tour de France stages. But if there's a regret for the Lotto-Intermarché rider, it has to be the missed spring campaign due...

The new 2026–2028 triennium could not have started more promisingly for Caja Rural - Seguros RGA. Even before the season began, the transfer market delivered major moves such as the renewal of Abel Balderstone and the signing of Fernando Gaviria. Now, in the opening weeks of the campaign, comes conf...

Marc Hirschi joined Tudor Pro Cycling ahead of last season as a winner of 9 races the year prior who scored over 3500 UCI points. Naturally, the expectations of the Swiss puncheur's arrival were through the roof, but it's fair to conclude that his debut in home team outfit went far from ideal. Numbe...

Two decades in the team car is not survival. It is authority. At Soudal - Quick-Step, Davide Bramati has lived every version of the modern Wolfpack, from the classics machine built around Paolo Bettini and Tom Boonen, through the one-day dominance of Julian Alaphilippe, to the Grand Tour pivot led b...

Thibau Nys is building a career that refuses to fit neatly into one season or one discipline. While he is still deep in another elite-level cyclocross campaign, the long game around him is already being redrawn. Not around mud and tape alone, but around what he can become when his road ambitions ar...

Mathieu van der Poel is already a world champion in road cycling, cyclocross (7x) and gravel. In the proximate seasons, we can expect the Dutch phenomenon to focus more on the mountain bikes where he's still missing a rainbow jersey, but he might be planning to add a fifth discipline to his sport CV...

If Tadej Pogacar has already reached the very best version of himself, then the uncomfortable truth for everyone else is that it may not matter. That is the verdict from Spanish cycling legend Pedro Delgado, speaking in a wide-ranging interview with Marca, where he argued that Pogacar has already hi...

Cian Uijtdebroeks has not even raced yet in Movistar Team colours, and already the stakes around his transfer could hardly be higher. Ahead of his 2026 debut in Valencia, a blunt verdict has cut through the optimism that usually surrounds a fresh start. “This is really his last chance. His last chan...

For most of the day, Visma had Stage 1 of the 2026 Tour Down Under exactly where they wanted it. By the end, they were left with the strange mix of satisfaction and frustration that only comes from getting almost everything right. On the flat, fast circuit around Tanunda, the race came down to a bun...

Egan Bernal has already worn pink in Italy. He knows what it takes to win the Giro d’Italia. But as he looks ahead to 2026, the former champion is clear about one thing: past glory will not carry him back to the startline as a protected leader. Bernal has said his ambition is to return to the Giro d...

Strade Bianche has always sold itself as something different. Not a cobbled classic. Not a pure climbers’ race. A modern hybrid built around gravel, rhythm and repeated sharp efforts. But in the last two seasons, that balance shifted. The race was made longer, rougher and more extreme, and in doing...

For Bart Wellens, Thibau Nys did not lose the battle with Mathieu van der Poel in the final laps at Benidorm. He lost it before the race had even found its rhythm. “I thought Thibau was very good, but he rode a too casual first lap. Again he made the mistake of not immediately sitting on Mathieu’s w...

We attended the press-only launch of the new season of El Día Menos Pensado, which CyclingUpToDate and CiclismoAlDia were invited to, and one of the most discussed moments appears in the opening episode. It shows footage from Itzulia Basque Country in which Enric Mas asks João Almeida to gift him th...

The first sprint of the season is always tricky for most men in the peloton, and that's what happened this afternoon in Tanunda. Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under was won by Tobias Lund Andresen, who took advantage of the mistakes that both Matthew Brennan and Sam Welsford made - which they detail in t...

We preview stage 2 of the Tour Down Under that is set to take place on the 22nd January, having an estimated start time at 01:50CET and finishing at 05:20CET. After the first sprinter showdown, this will be a very important day for the overall classification with the most difficult climbing of the w...

Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under was a flat day, but in a race where the gaps are as small as here, and in its opening days, each stage can change things quite a bit. Today we have a new race leader in Tobias Lund Andresen after the Danish rider took the victory in the final sprint, whilst a few rider...

Previously a stage winner at the Tour of Turkey, Tour of Denmark, Cro Race and the Surf Coast Race; Tobias Lund Andresen was already a quality sprinter. However today at the Tour Down Under the Danish sprinter has taken his palmarès up a notch by winning stage 1 of the Tour Down Under ahead of the t...

Mathieu van der Poel did not need Benidorm to start a rivalry with Jasper Philipsen. He needed a moment. And once the words were out, the story was no longer about who won a race. It was about who would dare the other into unfamiliar territory first. “Not only I would lap him, but everyone else too....

The 2025 season was massive for Tom Pidcock. After four years at INEOS Grenadiers where the Brit struggled to really find his own place in the team, Pidcock signed for Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling. And in retrospective, that seems to have been a great decision for his career. Pidcock podiumed Strade...

The 2026 Volta a Catalunya is shaping up as one of the most anticipated one-week WorldTour races of the season. The start list will be stellar, featuring several of the sport’s biggest names: Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Joao Almeida, Tom Pidcock, Florian Lipowitz or Mikel Landa. The Volta Ci...

Fabio Jakobsen knows well what is it like to stand on top of the sprinter hierarchy, but he's just as intimately what it feels like to fall from the grace of cycling gods and hit the rock-bottom. But despite the two serious setbacks in Jakobsen's career, the 29-year-old is committed to rise to the t...

Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under has seen the sprinter leadouts go head to head and in Tanunda we've had a very fast finale where Tobias Lund Andresen benefited from a perfect leadout to take what is perhaps the biggest win of his career.  The first stage of the race only presented 120 kilometers on t...

Christophe Laporte has always been counted among the dark horses for the biggest races, but it wasn't until he joined Team Visma | Lease a Bike in 2022 that he truly stepped up his game. In particular his 2023 campaign was a massive success crowned with a European title. But since then, the Frenchma...

The 2026 season will be a jump into unknown for Remco Evenepoel. The Belgian broke up with Soudal - Quick-Step after a seven-year relationship to chase even bigger achievements with the ambitious Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe. To limit the unknows in the equation, Evenepoel will stick to a races that...

Visma | Lease a Bike have already won 8 Grand Tours during this decade, cementing themselves as the one of the two major GC forces of the current cycling world (the other being Tadej Pogacar with 5). However their record at the Monuments leaves something to be desired as the Slovenian alone has won...

For years, he was part of the background machinery that fed Visma’s future. Now he is riding in the same colours as Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert, lining up in WorldTour races instead of watching them on television. “Now I can officially say I’m teammates with Vingegaard, Van Aert, Laporte and...

INEOS Grenadiers have made one of the boldest statements of the transfer market by signing Oscar Onley, fresh from a fourth place at the Tour de France. It is a move built on belief, timing and ambition. But outside the team, not everyone is convinced the next step is as close as it looks. On the Ko...

Milano-Sanremo has become the playground of the modern superstars, shaped in recent years by the rivalry between Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar. Now a very different kind of headline name could be added to that mix, with reports in Belgium suggesting that Primoz Roglic may line up for La Cla...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike did not come to Australia to win a 3.6-kilometre prologue. But when they committed fully to the opening test at the Tour Down Under, they expected more than a quiet afternoon. Instead, their all-in approach delivered early promise, then late frustration and, by the end of t...

Victor Campenaerts has ridden for many leaders in his career. But not many, he suggests, are easy to follow unless you truly believe in them. Speaking to Anders Mielke for Eurosport on Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s press day in Spain, Campenaerts summed up his relationship with Jonas Vingegaard in one...

For Sam Welsford, the move to INEOS Grenadiers is not just about sprinting better. It is about aiming higher. “I want to go to a Grand Tour and win,” he said in quotes collected by Cycling News. It is a simple line, but it immediately shifts how his 2026 season should be read. This is not just about...

Beating Tadej Pogacar is no longer about finding one perfect rival. It is about creating problems he cannot solve alone. That is the logic Alberto Contador believes Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe must follow if they want to turn ambition into yellow. Speaking in conversation with Sporza at Velofollies,...

For now, Mathieu van der Poel is still fully focused on the 2025-26 cyclocross season. The Dutchman is chasing his eighth rainbow jersey at the upcoming World Championships in Hulst, which would break the record he currently shares with Erik De Vlaeminck for most world titles, with seven each. But i...

The prologue of the Tour Down Under proved to be profitable for UAE Team Emirates - XRG, who entered the race in position to win the overall classification after Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narváez put on a strong performance in Adelaide, and the former has put in time already on every single one of his r...

The 2026 season is underway and at the Tour Down Under there are some big names taking to the start. But the main figures that will be fighting for victories at the Grand Tours are still keeping their powder dry and training ahead of the debut. We take a look at all of the big figures and where they...

At just 17, Benjamín Noval Jr. is one of the standout names in Spanish youth cycling. National champion on the road, in mountain bike and cyclocross, the Asturian embodies the modern multi-discipline rider and already has a guaranteed step up to the pros in 2027 with INEOS Grenadiers, one of the mos...

The prologue of the Tour Down Under has created some interesting differences to start off the race. Samuel Watson of INEOS Grenadiers took the early victory and although the 3.6-kilometer long route didn't seem to be quite enough to create important differences, it's not exactly the case as some GC...

We preview stage 1 of the Tour Down Under that is set to take place on the 21st January, having an estimated start time at 01:49CET and finishing at 04:25CET. After Sam Watson's victory on the prologue, this will be the best day for the sprinters to battle for the win amongst each other, and amongst...

The 2026 Tour Down Under has begun and the racing season is officially on the road for the men's peloton. On the streets of Adelaide, a late-afternoon prologue lit up the city, and it was INEOS Grenadiers' Samuel Watson who powered through the 3.6-kilometer route the fastest, obtaining the first och...

INEOS Grenadiers have come out on top on the opening day of the 2026 World Tour calendar. Samuel Watson was the main favourite to win the prologue of the Tour Down Under in the city of Adelaide, and he delivered as he brought in INEOS Grenadiers' first win of the year.  The 3.6-kilometer route was r...

Every time Tour de France wanders outside the French borders, it tends to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for foreign fans to see the world's biggest cycling race pass through their home region. And the cycling enthusiasts as well as regular locals of Scotland, England and Wales will be granted...

The 2026 road season will start later than expected for Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian will only pin on a number for the first time on March 7 at the Strade Bianche where the Slovenian aims for a fourth title, third in a row. The goal at UAE Team Emirates - XRG is to keep him as fresh as possible for...

From the 20th to the 25th of January, the 2026 season sees its first men's World Tour event: the Tour Down Under. Australia's top race provides thrilling action every year, with sprinters, classics specialists, and climbers alike starting their season in the southern hemisphere's warm temperatures....

The prologue of the 2026 Tour Down Under will take place on the 20th of January and will open up the World Tour season. It will be a short but explosive effort which will kick off the action in Australia. The stage will start at 08:30CET and finish at 11:10CET.  The stage will be 3.6 kilometers long...

The 2026 WorldTour season officially raises the curtain on Tuesday, February 20th in Australia with the Tour Down Under prologue. As is tradition, the race opens the top-tier calendar with an individual time trial that will set the first gaps in the general classification and award the first ochre l...

The 2026 Tour Down Under, the season’s first WorldTour race, will start on January 20th in Adelaide and finish on the 25th of January, with a start list that blends established stars, new signings, and a strong home contingent. The race organisation has released the preliminary entry list, confirmin...

Around this time year ago, Tudor Pro Cycling would rub their hands at the perfect sprint train they had collected with Rick Pluimers into last kilometer, Maikel Zijlaard as launcher and Arvid de Kleijn as finisher. But reality didn't wait too long to show its nasty face. De Kleijn got injured alread...

Tim Merlier must've cancelled all his early-season plans because of a knee injury that occured at a cyclocross event he participated in early December. That caused the Belgian speedster to postpone his season preparation, making it impossible to be ready for the earliest race on the Soudal - Quick-S...

Bahrain - Victorious may not have had the most successful two most recent seasons, but one thing you can always rely on is that the Bahrani team has some aces up their sleeve. And Max van der Meulen is one of their projects for the not-so-proximate future. The 21-year-old Dutchman has just completed...

Antonio Tiberi looks back at two years that could be very well described as "day and night", such a polar difference was between his 2024 and 2025 campaigns. While in 2024, the young Italian finished 5th overall at Giro d'Italia in his debut at the home Grand Tour, 2025 was a massive letdown as a cr...

For the first time since 2014, the Tour de France returns to United Kingdom in 2027, spanning across the main three historical regions: Scotland, England and Wales. Then 28-year-old Geraint Thomas was still in the middle of his transition into a GC rider at that time, but still carries warm memories...

The road cycling season is about to begin. One day before the official start, Movistar Team hosted an exclusive screening of the first episode of the new season of El Dia Menos Pensado at Espacio Movistar on Gran Via. Our Spanish language sister channel CiclismoAlDia were present at an event where E...

Jonas Vingegaard’s decision to add the Giro d’Italia to his programme in 2026 has sparked debate across the peloton. Some see it as a risk, others as a sign of confidence. Inside Team Visma | Lease a Bike, the message is simpler: this is about ambition, not compromise. That much is clear from Wilco...

For Ben O’Connor, the Tour Down Under is no longer a gentle way to ease into a season. It is a target in its own right, one that now sits just below the Tour de France in his personal hierarchy. Speaking in a recent interview with Cyclism’Actu, O’Connor made his position clear. “For Team Jayco AlUla...

Simon Yates stepped away at the very moment Team Visma | Lease a Bike were still building around him. The timing of his immediate retirement has already reshaped their season planning. Now an Italian former pro has gone further, warning that Yates’ absence leaves Visma exposed in the biggest races....

At Movistar Team, the seeds of change have been growing for several years. The new generation of riders led by Ivan Romeo, Javier Romo, Carlos Canal, Jon Barrenetxea and Pablo Castrillo deserved to see El Día Menos Pensado – the documentary series linked to the team over the past five years – return...

Jonas Vingegaard has heard the criticism. Too few races. Too little visibility. Too much focus on just two Grand Tours. His response is simple: the calendar may look light on paper, but the workload is not. Speaking in a recent interview with Wielerflits, the Dane pushed back firmly against the idea...

Dominance is usually explained in watts, weight, training blocks and talent. But inside UAE Team Emirates - XRG, one of the most important performance shifts has happened somewhere far less visible: in the way riders’ brains control their bodies. That is the picture painted by Michele Del Gallo, lon...

Mads Pedersen has never fitted neatly into one box. Not a pure sprinter, not a pure classics brute, not a GC rider. Yet year after year, he keeps winning, keeps adapting, and keeps adding layers to his career. That is exactly what caught the attention of Jan Bakelants when he spoke in conversation w...

Jai Hindley begins a new season with his attention firmly back on the Giro d’Italia, a race that sits at the heart of his career story. The Australian, who won the Italian Grand Tour in 2022, is set to return to the race within one of the strongest structures in the peloton, Red Bull - BORA - hansgr...

The early season rarely offers a clearer statement of intent than this. Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Isaac del Toro are all expected to line up at the UAE Tour in February, setting up a three-way headline battle before the European spring has even properly begun. With the men’s race schedul...

For years, Soudal - Quick-Step did not just build around Remco Evenepoel. They leaned on him. Not only for wins, but for protection. From expectation. From pressure. From the constant weight that sits on a Belgian team expected to win big races every spring and every summer. Now he is gone, and that...

Mathieu van der Poel spent Sunday blowing apart the World Cup in Benidorm. On Monday, he turned 31. And instead of talking about celebrations, champagne, or rest, the world champion had something much simpler in mind. “Normally with a long training ride, but that is something I really like doing. On...

Noemi Ruegg completed a remarkable title defence at the Women’s Tour Down Under, winning the final stage in Campbelltown after surviving a three-on-one battle against UAE Team ADQ on the brutal double ascent of the Corkscrew. The EF Education-Oatly rider looked under real pressure after the first as...

One day before the cycling season 2026 officially begins for most cycling fans with the Tour Down Under on Tuesday, January 20, a Grand Tour will start in... India! No, we haven't gone crazy, but neither Giro, Tour or Vuelta is involved. Instead, the so-called "Pune Grand Tour" will feature as India...

Professional cycling has one of the widest pay gaps in modern sport, stretching from global stars earning millions to riders surviving on little more than hope and stipends. In 2026, salaries at the top of the men’s World Tour have reached historic highs, driven by rising team budgets and powerful s...

After a dramatic U-turn decision to race, after initially opting to skip, Mathieu van der Poel did not come to Benidorm expecting to turn the World Cup into a solo exhibition. That only became clear to him after he had already committed. “I didn’t expect to win like this,” the world champion reflect...

For more than a decade, he has been part of the engine room of modern Slovenian cycling. Not the rider on the posters, not the one lifting most of the trophies, but one of the men who helped make a golden generation function. Now, after fourteen seasons in the professional peloton, Luka Mezgec has c...

Noemi Ruegg defended her Women’s Tour Down Under title in dramatic fashion, winning the final stage in Campbelltown after surviving a three-on-one battle against UAE Team ADQ on the brutal double ascent of the Corkscrew. The 126.5 km stage from Norwood was shaped by constant attacking and a long bre...

Dylan Groenewegen has officially opened a new chapter in his career, joining the Unibet Rose Rockets this winter after a four-year tenure with Team Jayco AlUla. The 32-year-old Dutchman, a winner of six Tour de France stages, arrives as the undisputed leader of a project still under construction. Bu...

The 2026 cycling season has begun with significant news for the South African peloton, as the Tshenolo Pro Cycling Team has officially received confirmation of its UCI Continental license. Following a successful campaign in 2025, the Pretoria-based squad is now finalizing its preparations to compete...

Bryan Coquard is currently in Spain, preparing for his fourteenth season in the professional peloton. While the WorldTour begins this week in Australia, the Cofidis rider, whose team is now operating at the ProTeam level, is finalizing his winter training in Europe. Speaking to DirectVelo, the Frenc...

As most riders, Lorenzo Germani has been getting ready for the new season in Spain, alongside his Groupama - FDJ teammates. During a media meeting, the Italian rider discussed his upcoming race schedule, the specifics of his winter preparation, and his objectives for the year. With the new season ap...

Richie Porte will return to the Santos Tour Down Under in Adelaide next week to receive the event's highest honor. The retired Australian climber, who built a reputation for invincibility on the race's defining climb, has been announced as the sole addition to the Hall of Fame for this edition. Orga...

During a recent interview, Jonathan Vaughters, manager of EF Education-EasyPost, and Thomas van den Spiegel, CEO of Flanders Classics, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion regarding the economic and structural future of professional cycling. The two figures debated the barriers preventing the sport...

Dan Martin is still making headlines more than four years after retiring. The double Monument winner and five-time Grand Tour stage winner has just run a rapid personal best in a 10km road race in Spain, adding his name to a growing list of former professional cyclists who have transitioned their ma...

Oscar Onley leaving Team Picnic PostNL is not just another transfer. It is the removal of the rider who defined what the team became in 2025. Fourth at the Tour de France, the Scot was the clear centre of gravity around which the season turned. Tactics, training blocks and race calendars were built...

Wout van Aert’s winter has again been shaped by injury, but not everyone believes it has derailed his spring. While some fear that his broken ankle could blunt his classics ambitions, former pro Sep Vanmarcke sees it very differently. Speaking to WielerKrant, Vanmarcke argued that recent debate arou...

Thibau Nys left Benidorm with second place, but also with the sense that his race had been shaped by what happened before it had really begun. “I am a bit disappointed that I was too far back in the first lap,” he said in his post-race interview afterwards. “I felt I had pretty good legs. Maybe I co...

Mathieu van der Poel decided the World Cup in Benidorm almost before it had begun. But the race did not belong to him alone. For Felipe Orts, it became the day his local World Cup finally turned into something permanent. “This is unbelievable for me,” Orts said in his immediate post-race interview a...

The men’s World Cup in Benidorm began on a course shaped by the long, rising finish straight and a wide central sand section that rewarded speed more than deep technical riding. At the start, Tibor del Grosso briefly led into the opening climb after Mathieu van der Poel missed his pedal, but the wor...

Lucinda Brand did not wait for the women's race at World Cup Benidorm to finish in a sprint. She decided it by force, riding away alone on the rising finish and turning the final two laps into a solo time trial. By the time she crossed the line, the race was long settled and her 18th win of the sea...

Under bright sun in Benidorm, the women’s World Cup opened at a fierce tempo on the redesigned course, with the long, rising strip towards the finish already shaping the race. Early on, Amandine Fouquenet and Lucinda Brand showed at the front, with Shirin van Anrooij briefly taking charge before the...

Round 10 of the cyclocross World Cup will take place this Sunday, January 18th, in Benidorm, Spain. The new circuit on the World Cup has become one of the most exciting in the calendar and takes the field to the Mediterranean coast for a very fast and explosive track where Mathieu van der Poel will...

When Wout van Aert crashed heavily in the snow during his cyclocross duel with Mathieu van der Poel, the damage looked brutal. A fractured ankle, surgery, and the immediate end of his winter campaign. For a rider who has already lost seasons to injury and illness in recent years, it felt like anothe...

Simon Yates walking away has forced Team Visma | Lease a Bike to redraw parts of their 2026 map. One of the riders now standing closest to that open space is Ben Tulett. The British climber had already been mapped into Visma’s plans for next season, but those plans assumed Yates would be there too....

For all the rumours that followed Remco Evenepoel for years, Soudal - Quick-Step still built most of their recent transfer strategy on one central assumption: that he would remain. That is the clear message from CEO Jurgen Fore in an interview with HLN, where he admitted that the team’s market work...

Ally Wollaston admitted she felt far from comfortable inside the peloton before digging deep to win stage two of the Women’s Tour Down Under and move to the brink of overall victory. The FDJ United-Suez rider made it two wins from two in Paracombe after surviving a brutally aggressive day raced in e...

When Bruno Armirail joked, “I’ve worn the pink jersey at the Giro, Jonas hasn’t yet,” it was said with a smile. But it also highlights something real about his first season at Team Visma | Lease a Bike. He arrives with his own milestones, his own experience, and his own route through 2026. And that...

Beating Tadej Pogacar in his terrain and when he is in peak form is proving to be mission impossible for virtually every rider in the peloton. Team Visma | Lease a Bike are well aware of that, and at last year's Tour de France they have deployed complex tactics to try and burn the Slovenian out. Whi...

Days after Team Jayco AlUla's chaotic finish at the Australian men’s elite road race sparked widespread criticism, the only Australian WorldTour team have gone public with a message of unity, accountability and rapid reset, as they try to calm the controversy that followed their tactical collapse. P...

Just a few days after it looked settled that he would skip the race, Mathieu van der Poel has changed his mind and will line up for the Cyclocross World Cup in Benidorm. The decision was confirmed by his team, Alpecin-Premier Tech, in a post on Instagram. “Surprise, surprise. Mathieu van der Poel wi...

The 2027 Tour de France will be starting in Great Britain and this Thursday afternoon the first three stages have been revealed, showcasing racing through Scotland, England and Wales. Stage 3 will fully take place in Welsh territory and feature several climbs. Geraint Thomas, the country's top figur...

Ally Wollaston extended her perfect start to the 2026 Women’s Tour Down Under, sprinting to victory in Paracombe to claim her second stage win in two days and strengthen her hold on the overall lead. The 130.7 km stage from Magill was raced at a ferocious tempo in extreme heat, with attacks flying f...

What do you give the rider who has won everything? That was the puzzle facing Visma | Lease a Bike management when planning Pauline Ferrand-Prévot's 2026 season. After returning to road racing at age 32 and achieving her three-year goal (winning the Tour de France Femmes) in just eight months, the F...

Léo Bisiaux has just three weekends of cyclo-cross remaining before shifting his focus entirely to the road. Following the U23 World Championships in Hulst (the Netherlands) on January 31, the Decathlon CMA CGM Team rider plans to take a break of only "four or five days" before getting back to the g...

Jordan Jegat was one of the breakout stars of the last Tour de France, defying expectations to finish 10th overall in what arguably was his best performance ever. However, unlike the teenage prodigies currently flooding the peloton, the 26-year-old took a long road to the top. Jegat's winter prepara...

There was a notable absentee at the Visma | Lease a Bike press day: Fem van Empel. A month ago, the 23-year-old cyclocross world champion made the shock decision to put her career on indefinite hold. While her absence leaves a void in the squad, her legendary teammate Marianne Vos believes it was th...

The route for the 61st edition of Tirreno-Adriatico has been revealed, and it marks a return to a classic style of racing. The Race of the Two Seas, scheduled for March 9 to 15, will not feature a high-altitude summit finish this year. Instead, the organizers have designed a course filled with steep...

Wout van Aert is recovering from his ankle fracture at a remarkable speed. Just weeks after a season-ending crash at the cyclocross in Mol, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike leader is already back to logging massive distances at the team training camp in Spain. The Belgian star's winter campaign came to...

Chloé Dygert is back in Australia to start her 2026 season, hoping to repeat the success she found here last year. The American rider won the final stage of the 2025 Santos Women's Tour Down Under, but her season stalled after that early victory. Now, she is determined to find consistency again. Dyg...

This Tuesday, 20th January, the Santos Tour Down Under gets underway. Over six days, the peloton tackles the first WorldTour race of the year in Australia. We’ll see riders chase stage wins, trying to bank as many as possible to etch their names into the race’s history. That’s exactly what we’re foc...

The Tour of Norway - not to be confused with the Arctic Race of Norway - has come to an end this year, not renewed due to financial constraints. Alexander Kristoff, one of the country's best ever riders, has retired from the sport this winter but deeply laments the end of the country's top event.  "...

Danny van Poppel is getting a new role and trust from Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe this season. The Dutch national champion is set to be a lead sprinter in several races including the Giro d'Italia, whilst also having a focus on Milano-Sanremo and the cobbled classics. His racing schedule begins alre...

Primoz Roglic is a rider that is now not the main player at Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe, but he continues to have a lot of leverage. As the team decided on its plans for the 2026 season, the Slovenian himself asked new signing Gianni Vermeersch to join him at the Vuelta a España.  Roglic enters an i...

Jonas Vingegaard's plan to race the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France was already apparent for a long time but has now been confirmed by Team Visma | Lease a Bike while the plan for most of the season has been built. The Dane is going to attempt to complete his set of Grand Tours this may at the Giro...

Since its launch in 1999, the Santos Tour Down Under has followed a rare trajectory in professional cycling, growing steadily from a regional experiment into the defining stage race of the southern hemisphere. Built around Adelaide and the rolling roads of South Australia, it has become the traditio...

For now, the Tour of Flanders remains off Remco Evenepoel’s calendar. But the idea that he might never race Belgium’s biggest one-day event has been firmly rejected by his new boss at Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe. Speaking to Sporza, team manager Sven Vanthourenhout made clear that the door is not cl...

Romina Hinojosa knows exactly how people have been introducing her since the Giro d'Italia in 2025. Not by her results, not by her team, not even by her nationality. By the pink jersey her boyfriend Isaac Del Toro wore for a chunk of that race. The attention was real, and she does not pretend otherw...

Ally Wollaston admitted she was far from calm inside the peloton before powering to victory on stage 1 of the Women’s Tour Down Under, taking the first leader’s jersey of the 2026 race after a dramatic finale on Lower Willunga Hill. The FDJ United - Suez rider delivered a crushing acceleration insid...

When you have raced inside the same structures as Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel, your opinion carries a different kind of weight. Finn Fisher-Black is not a pundit looking in from the outside. He has lived inside three of cycling’s most powerful systems, first in...

Over the past two years, professional road cycling has been completely dominated by Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian has become the sport’s defining figure, winning across almost every terrain and style of race, with only a handful of rare defeats. As the 2026 season approaches, all the signs point towa...

Ally Wollaston claimed the first leader’s jersey at the 2026 Women’s Tour Down Under with a powerful uphill sprint on Lower Willunga Hill, capping a nervous and chaotic opening stage around Willunga. The 137.4 km stage looked set for a reduced sprint, but it was almost stolen by a long solo move fro...

Lidl-Trek is growing to be one of the cycling's "super-teams", there's no doubt about that since the arrival of strong sponsor Lidl in 2023. The team has been quite active on the transfer market to secure two promising GC riders Derek Gee and Juan Ayuso. However their project extends far beyond just...

The biggest under-23 stage race on calendar will drastically change its format from 2026 onwards. No longer part of the cancelled Nations Cup series, the Tour de l'Avenir will, for the first time in its modern history, welcome commercial teams alongside national selections. This will come as a great...

For a second year in a row, Tadej Pogacar continued to leave everyone speechless with his cycling performances in 2025. He didn't add as prestigious achievements as the Triple Crown in 2024 to his palmares, but still finished on top of the 2025 ranking, miles ahead of every other cyclist.  The Slove...

While the male peloton will have to wait until Tuesday for their 2026 debut, women line up for the first stage of Tour Down Under in just a couple hours. And on the start will be among other big names the world champion Magdeleine Vallieres, representing EF Education-Oatly. Naturally, the Canadian i...

The masters cycling world's reputation has taken another hit after the 40-44 age category time trial world champion Matthew Clark tested positive for doping. On the day of his victory, Clark submitted to a regular doping control. Nothing out of ordinary, had the test not returned with a positive res...

When a rider of Jonas Vingegaard’s calibre changes his season around a race that is not the Tour de France, people assume there must be something big behind it. Big money. Big pressure. Big deals. According to Giuseppe Martinelli, who has managed champions like Marco Pantani, Alberto Contador and Vi...

INEOS Grenadiers are not easing into 2026 quietly. Their Tour Down Under lineup blends home favourites, proven winners and two major debuts, sending a clear message that this is more than just an early-season warm-up. If you want to see who they will be racing against, you can check out the full Tou...

When the women’s Tour de France comes to Britain in 2027, it will not just be another foreign start. It will land in the middle of a country that has already lived through Tour fever, but this time with the women’s race sharing the same sense of occasion. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be...

Is Jonas Vingegaard changing course because he believes it gives him a better chance of beating Tadej Pogacar – or because he no longer fully believes he can? That is the uncomfortable question raised by Danish TV2 cycling expert Emil Axelgaard, who has cast doubt on the logic behind Vingegaard’s de...

Simon Yates’ decision to walk away at the peak of his powers has split opinion. Some see a rider leaving too early. Others see someone who chose the right moment. One of the clearest defences of Yates’ choice has come from inside the peloton. Speaking to In de Leiderstrui, Sjoerd Bax argued that if...

Decathlon CMA CGM Team expected their biggest new signing to front a fresh sprint project in the opening weeks of the season. Instead, Olav Kooij is stuck watching from the sidelines, ruled out for an unknown length of time by an illness that doctors are still not publicly identifying. What was mean...

Simon Yates left the sport at the very top, stepping away weeks after a season that delivered the Giro d'Italia and a Tour de France stage. To the public, the timing looked sudden. Inside his circle, the idea had been forming much earlier. One of the clearest windows into that private process comes...

For Oscar Onley, joining INEOS is not just a career move. It is a return to the team he grew up watching, dreaming about and measuring himself against. “If I told 10-year-old me that I was going to be, well, it was Team Sky at the time and now it’s INEOS, that I’d be joining the team one day, he wou...

The cyclocross world has been dominated by Mathieu van der Poel in the last few years, whilst he and Wout van Aert dominated the late 2010's and early 2020's. This came in the way of many riders who had their own ambitions, including Lars van der Haar who believes he hasn't been able to win that Wor...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike do not have to choose between their present and their future in the Flemish spring. They can race with both at the same time. Wout van Aert remains the figure everyone watches. Matthew Brennan is the rider nobody can afford to ignore. And according to the team, that is not...

The Tour de France does not hand out Grand Departs lightly. When Christian Prudhomme talks about “passion and pride”, he is not just flattering a host nation. He is justifying why the biggest race in cycling is willing to begin on British roads again, and this time with Scotland opening the show and...

From the 20th to the 25th of January, the 2026 season sees its first men's World Tour event: the Tour Down Under. Australia's top race provides thrilling action every year, with sprinters, classics specialists and climbers alike starting their season in the southern hemisphere's warm temperatures. H...

Next Tuesday, 20th of January, the Tour Down Under gets under way. As every year, it will open the WorldTour season. The riders on the startlist will fight to add their names to an honours roll already packed with big winners. Below, we look at the five men who have claimed the overall classificatio...

Tom Pidcock experienced a stupendous 2025 season, his first with Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, and in 2026 the expectations are perhaps even higher than when he was back at INEOS Grenadiers. The British all-rounder has revealed his full schedule for the spring, including monuments, Strade Bianch...

Mathieu van der Poel is currently training on the Spanish coast and close to where the Benidorm World Cup will take place this Sunday, so for many, it would come as a surprise that he will be absent. However, the cyclocross World Champion has explained that he is currently putting in the miles to co...

Simon Yates has announced his retirement from professional cycling at age 33, stepping away as one of Britain’s most accomplished Grand Tour riders. Over a 13-year career, the Bury-born racer carved out a unique legacy, including two Grand Tour titles, through dramatic highs and lows on the sport’s...

The first three stages of the 2027 Tour de France have been revealed. Cycling's biggest race returns to Great Britain for a Grand Depart in Scotland; whilst England and Wales will each have stages race through their territory.  The Grand Depart in Edinnburgh has been known for a long time, but know...

Italy can look forward to a return of one of its most iconic races in 2026. Giro di Sardegna is back on the UCI calendar after a 15-year hiatus for a 30th edition. Granted the 2.1 category, the five-day stage race will circle the whole island, with stage 3 start placed in the biggest city of Cagliar...

Short cranks have been the topic among technical geek circles ever since the start of 2025 when the reports of Jonas Vingegaard sporting ultra-short 150mm cranks, following the example of Tadej Pogacar, have spread. Since then, a season has passed during which we have seen this "innovation" in actio...

The merger of Lotto-Intermarché was one of the most ambitious - and chaotic - projects cycling witnessed in recent years. Within less than a year, two WorldTour-level teams with nearly 60 riders (90 if you count development teams), had to combine to create only one new team. It didn't come without c...

Alexander Kristoff spent close to two decades at the highest level. Besides the invaluable experience, that also offers the 37-year-old Norwegian unique perspective on how would the previous generation of Classics stars such Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen compare to the nowadays overlords, namely...

The sudden retirement of Simon Yates shook the cycling world. After all, the 33-year-old just reached a high point in his career, winning the sought-after Giro d'Italia. For Visma | Lease a Bike, this is a low blow, however it's not a first instance of such occuring, as Tom Dumoulin in past, and als...

Great Britain is set to host not only the 2027 Tour de France, but also the start of the Tour de France Femmes. Whilst the route of the stages is not yet known, ASO have revealed the cities that will be hosting stages of women's cycling top event, with a stage taking place in the English capital of...

Lotto and Intermarché-Wanty merged into one World Tour team this winter, but it was anything but a smooth process. Besides being officially confirmed late, the riders did not know if their contracts were going to be honoured. Many were deceived, but even amongst those that did end up making it into...

Alexander Kristoff started the 2020 Tour de France as one of the leaders for UAE Team Emirates - XRG, and won the opening stage in Nice taking the yellow jersey. He would've never expected his teammate Tadej Pogacar to be carrying the jersey into Paris that summer, and has talked about his surprise...

Sepp Kuss has for many years been part of Team Visma | Lease a Bike's plans for the Grand Tours, and with the retirement of Simon Yates, his importance grows back to the very top once again in 2026. The American rider is set to be Jonas Vingegaard's right-hand man at both the Giro d'Italia and Tour...

Jonas Vingegaard has been known for several months to have been considering the choice to race both Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in 2026. This is now confirmed and is a fully organized project within Team Visma | Lease a Bike, supported by Vincenzo Nibali, one of the few riders that has a palmar...

One of the marquee weekends for Spanish cyclocross is here: the Benidorm World Cup. The 2025/26 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup round could always potentially feature Mathieu van der Poel who is training at home nearby, but the World Champion has opted out of the racee.  Van der Poel was expected to be t...

Ben Tulett did not talk about watts, climbs or tactics when he looked back on the 2025 Vuelta a Espana. He talked about leadership. “It was incredible to see how Jonas Vingegaard handled everything during the Vuelta,” Tulett said in Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s press release setting out his 2026 plan...

Richard Carapaz is being linked with a return to the Giro d’Italia in 2026, according to reporting in Italy, with the former winner once again expected to make the Corsa Rosa a key focus of his season. Nothing has been confirmed by the EF Education-EasyPost team or by Carapaz himself. But the talk a...

Jonas Vingegaard is not choosing the safe road. By committing to the Giro d’Italia, the Visma leader is stepping into what one expert calls his boldest gamble yet – a race that could redefine his legacy, but also expose him more than ever. The decision was made long before it was announced in La Nu...

Two riders. One pathway. One moment where development becomes reality. In 2026, Tim Rex and Pietro Mattio will take their first steps as full professionals with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, beginning their WorldTour careers at the Santos Tour Down Under in Australia. “Turning professional with this te...

Matteo Jorgenson offered a wide-ranging set of answers during a January Team Visma | Lease a Bike media session, touching on everything from the team’s Tour de France priorities to his own spring reset and the dynamics of a squad that has brought in a wave of new faces. CyclingUpToDate were there to...

Professional road cyclists are among the most highly trained endurance athletes in the world, and their training load is far higher than most people imagine. And given the brutal races the professionals compete in, it’s no surprise their training is severe. The men and women racing at WorldTour leve...

Next Tuesday, 20 January, the Santos Tour Down Under will get underway, the race that opens the WorldTour season every year. It takes place in Australia and will keep us busy until Sunday, the 25th. It is a race for puncheurs: fast riders who handle rolling terrain well and can still beat the best...

The departure of Oscar Onley puts the whole Picnic PostNL, which only survived in WorldTour thanks to the Scots contribution, in an awkward spot. Without an outright leader for the years ahead, the Dutch formation will set their sights on Onley's younger compatriot - Max Poole, who has been around i...

Some riders chase marginal gains. Others chase suffering. When Mads Pedersen heard how one of his rivals trains through the Scandinavian winter, he did not dress it up politely. He called it “crazy”. Not behind closed doors either. Straight to his face, if needed. The rider in question is Uno X’s Jo...

Jonas Vingegaard laid out the thinking behind his biggest calendar shake up in years during a January Team Visma | Lease a Bike media session, confirming the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France double has been in his head since the moment he won La Vuelta. CyclingUpToDate were there to document every w...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike arrived at media day, still processing Simon Yates' sudden retirement, and Richard Plugge made it clear there was no dramatic back and forth behind the scenes. If a rider calls and says he wants to leave, Plugge said, you accept it, even if the timing leaves you with a hole...

Cameron Mason has been having a season of ups and downs. But this past weekend in South Shields he took his first win of the winter, conquering with comfort the British national Championships. He now aims for the final races of the season, whilst evaluating the modest state of British cyclocross.  "...

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

With the 2026 Tour Down Under now less than a week away, the picture is rapidly taking shape. Most teams have already finalised their selections, with many riders long since on the ground in Australia. As the days tick down, more squads are confirming their line-ups, adding further clarity to a star...

Axel Zingle was signed to Team Visma | Lease a Bike in 2025 but experienced an unlucky season marked by injury. The potential was there, but the Frenchman won't pursue the same plan, but instead focus on obtaining victories and also going for the cobbled classics in 2026. "There probably won't be an...

Joaquim “Purito” Rodríguez has always been known for calling it as he sees it. No detours, no needless diplomacy, and a level of honesty rarely seen in pro cycling. In a recent interview he shared the story of how he turned down an offer from Team Sky in the 2010's during the peak of his career.  F...

Nutrition is perhaps at the forefront of the cycling's evolution over the past few years. Team Visma | Lease a Bike's head of performance Mathieu Heijboer talked about it in detail during the team's media day, but the team itself has also shined a light on the matter.  “The conversation is no longer...

Timo Kielich was one of Team Visma | Lease a Bike's signings into 2026, and is a rider that will take on a lot of responsibility next spring. The cyclocross specialist is now putting his full focus on the road, where he will join Wout van Aert in the cobbled classics and Jonas Vingegaard at the Giro...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike's media day provided an opportunity to learn about the team's schedules, goals, opinions of the riders and much more. Amongst the many names who were active throughout the afternoon in La Nucia was Mathieu Heijboer, head coach in the Dutch team, and one of the men responsib...

Derek Gee-West is now a rider for Lidl-Trek in each and every single way. The Canadian rider was already present at the team's training camp in December as CyclingUpToDate understands, however he was only made official now in January. He has now talked to the media discussing a wide array of topics...

Not many outside the main cycling bubble recognize the name Anton Schiffer, but that was also the case with the likes of Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard when they first signed with Team Visma | Lease a Bike. The German rider could be one of the team's weapons in the next few years, the definition...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike didn't have any big name signings amongst the nine riders it presented towards the 2026 season, but it did have the quality. Bruno Armirail was one of the men present at the team camp who spoke out about his ambitions towards 2026, which include a Tour de France presence wi...

The atmosphere at Soudal - Quick-Step will be quite different in 2026. Without Remco Evenepoel. For Ilan Van Wilder, that means a field promotion to a leader's role, although Mikel Landa still remains the Belgian team's most promising GC contender. Rather than sparse opporuninties in races Evenepoel...

The 2026 World Tour season will start off with the Tour Down Under and slowly the race begins to take shape. Soudal - Quick-Step have conrfirmed their lineup for the race and it includes Alberto Dainese as the leader; with the Italian making his debut for the team in pursuit of stage wins in the bun...

Since last Tuesday, 13 January, Jonas Vingegaard’s 2026 race calendar has been known. After weeks of rumours, Team Visma | Lease a Bike finally confirmed their star’s debut at the Giro d’Italia. The Corsa Rosa is the big new element in the Dane’s programme, but that does not mean he has forgotten ab...

Victor Campenaerts is not talking about chasing his own glory in 2026. He is talking about service. “I’ll be riding the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France, aiming to support Jonas and the team as best as I can,” he said in Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s press release setting out his plans. Two Grand...

Jonas Vingegaard’s decision to ride the Giro d’Italia in 2026 has sparked two very different readings. One view says it is a hedge. A way to secure a Grand Tour win away from Tadej Pogacar after two Tours decided in Pogacar’s favour. The other says it is a weapon. A way to change Vingegaard himself...

In 2026, the Santos Tour Down Under will once again be the first World Tour race of the season, with a new edition to be held from January 17 to 25 in Australia. The women's race will be run from January 17 to 19. Meanwhile, the men's race will start with a prologue on January 20 and conclude on Jan...

Wout van Aert faced the media during a January Team Visma | Lease a Bike press day with a lot on the table at once, from Simon Yates surprise retirement to his own injury recovery and a classics calendar that is still being finalised. CyclingUpToDate were there to document it in full.  The Belgian m...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s January media day was always likely to revolve around fresh schedules, new signings and renewed ambition. Instead, the talking point that kept dragging everything back was the one nobody inside the team expected to be discussing so soon, and CyclingUpToDate were present t...

For Christophe Laporte, 2026 is not about building on a good year. It is about escaping a bad one. After a season derailed almost entirely by illness, missed races and months of uncertainty, the Frenchman is talking less about targets and more about recovery in every sense. “Next season, I want to b...

Simon Yates did not just leave a gap in Team Visma | Lease a Bike’s roster. He left it at the worst possible moment. When Visma confirmed Yates’ immediate retirement, the team framed it as the close of a final season that delivered the Giro d’Italia and a Tour de France stage win. But behind that of...

A lot of schedule decisions were made public today at the Team Visma | Lease a Bike camp, as the Dutch team hosted its media day and finally confirmed Jonas Vingegaard's debut at the Giro d'Italia. CyclingUpToDate and Cyclism'Actu have been able to confirm the team's lineup for the upcoming Giro d'I...

The Dutch elite squad for the Cyclocross World Cup in Benidorm is set, but the biggest name on the list still comes with an asterisk. Mathieu van der Poel is provisionally included in the Dutch selection for this weekend’s race in Spain, yet his actual participation remains undecided. With the entry...

The first request Owain Doull made when he arrived at Team Visma | Lease a Bike had nothing to do with equipment, training camps or race schedules. “The first thing I asked was to get a Welsh flag on my helmet,” he said in Visma’s official press release introducing him to the team. It was a small de...

There was a time when Laura Verdonschot appeared to by well on the way to break the Dutch monopoly on women's cyclocross medals, but the 5th lady of 2024 World Championships instead quietly disappeared from the fans' radar in the coming seasons, and the 2025/26 winter will be the last for Verdonscho...

For Marianne Vos, 2025 was a strangely satisfying season. The legendary cyclist didn't win as often as she'd be used to from past seasons, but thanks to her teammates, mainly Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, the 38-year-old got to celebrate so many nice victories, that it almost feels like she stood on the p...

Sometimes, one step back is what is necessary to make a leap forward. That's the ideology that brings Soudal - Quick-Step back to their Classics roots in 2026, although the transformation cannot possibly be completed after just one winter. Or... can it? Besides significant roster changes, new staff...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike was quite modest with their transfer market activities, not rushing to replace the departing Olav Kooij and Tiesj Benoot. However the Lotto-Intermarché merger brought to their front door Louis Barré, a rising talent for the hilly classics. Of course he's far from a one-for-...

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot took the world of road cycling by a storm in 2025. As a returning face to the peloton, the expectations weren't anywhat high of the Frenchwoman in her "debut" season, but the 33-year-old made it clear very soon that she doesn't need anything like an acclimatization period to p...

Jay Vine did not leave the 2026 Australian men’s elite road race at the National Championships quietly. After Patrick Eddy had celebrated the biggest win of his career in Perth, Vine took to Instagram and wrote one of the most pointed post-race reactions the national championships have seen in years...

Davide Piganzoli is not arriving at Team Visma | Lease a Bike as a blank canvas. He is arriving with results, reputation and a very clear first task. “The fact that I get to ride the Giro in my very first year with the team and support Jonas is really special,” he said in Visma’s official press rele...

Cian Uijtdebroeks will begin his Movistar Team career on 4 February at the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, the Spanish stage race now confirmed as his first appearance in new colours. The debut locks in the opening scene of a transfer that was never about noise or drama, but about direction. Leaving T...

Matthew Brennan is no longer being introduced to the WorldTour. He is being measured against it. After a 2025 season that saw him win repeatedly across stage races and one-day events, the 20-year-old Brit now heads into 2026 with a very different status. Not a prospect learning the ropes, but a ride...

Matteo Jorgenson will have more freedom in 2026 than at any point since joining Team Visma | Lease a Bike. More leadership in the spring. A reworked calendar. New personal targets. And yet, when he talks about what really defines his season, his answer does not change. “The Tour is always the highli...

Wout van Aert is not chasing a slogan in 2026. He is chasing relief and a break from the bad luck that has consistenly hindered him over recent years. After several seasons shaped as much by crashes, illness and forced interruptions as by podiums and victories, the Visma leader has reduced his bigge...

Jonas Vingegaard is about to do something he has never done before. In 2026 he will start the Giro d'Italia for the first time, chasing a Grand Tour trilogy that only a handful of riders have ever completed. Yet even with that new challenge on the calendar, his own definition of success has not shif...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike has set out its sporting plans for the 2026 season in direct terms, a campaign the team itself defines as strategic, ambitious, and carefully built around its marquee leaders. The project keeps a clear structure: dominance in the Grand Tours, prominence in the calendar’s bi...

When Biniam Girmay chose to move on to a new challenge at the NSN Cycling Team, the decision landed in the middle of one of the most turbulent periods his former team had ever faced. According to Lotto-Intermarche manager Jean Francois Bourlard, timing and uncertainty around the merger played a deci...

For Bart Wellens, the news that Eli Iserbyt will never race cyclocross again landed as more than just another retirement announcement. It felt wrong. Too sudden. Too unfinished. Writing in his Crossprofessor column for Het Nieuwsblad, the former world champion made it clear that what hurts most is n...

Now 33 years old, Julian Alaphilippe finds himself in a position of being a veteran in the peloton. Whilst very few have had the pleasure of winning as often and as big as him, the Frenchman believes that he sees less of that drive in the peloton nowadays, but instead a pursuit for better power numb...

Team Visma | Lease a Bike have locked in the next product of their development system, confirming that Matisse Van Kerckhove will join the WorldTeam from the 2027 season. The 19-year-old Belgian has signed a two-year contract and becomes the fifteenth rider to make the move directly from the Develop...

UAE Team Emirates – XRG are not treating the Tour Down Under as a warm-up. For the opening WorldTour race of 2026, they are turning up with the defending champion, a former winner, and a Tour de France podium finisher, shaping a team clearly built to dominate the race’s hardest days. Jhonatan Narvae...

When Tadej Pogacar lights up a race from distance, the reaction is almost always the same. It looks wild. It looks emotional. It looks like a gamble that should blow up in his face. But inside UAE Team Emirates - XRG, that reading of Pogacar is completely wrong. “There are no risks in his solo attac...

The list of riders stepping away from the peloton ahead of the 2026 season continues to grow, with former Norwegian national road race champion Amund Grondahl Jansen now confirming that his professional career is over. The Norwegian, who spent the 2025 season with Uno-X Mobility, confirmed his retir...

This Tuesday, the riders from Team Visma | Lease a Bike will talk to the media and publicly talk about their racing schedules, which should be well established with one week left for the start of the season in Australia. Jonas Vingegaard will have his Giro d'Italia debut confirmed, and his first tea...

Jarno Widar's arrival in WorldTour is one of the most anticipated debuts of 2026. After making a name for himself as one of the most outstanding junior talents, the Belgian continued to impress with his raw potential over the two seasons in under-23 category. A period which was concluded in style wi...

Sara Casasola breezed through the Italian cyclocross Championships with utter ease, proving why is she perhaps the best non-Benelux female cyclocrosser at the moment. However the approach to the race was anything but straightforward for the 26-year-old. Since the European Championships where she unf...

The name Cipollini is a household brand in cycling mainly thanks to the legendary sprinter Mario Cipollini, but his older brother Cesare (1958-2023) also had a fulfilling professional career with several top-10s at Giro d'Italia and a stand-out victory at 1983 Giro dell'Emilia. And while Mario was o...

Lennert Van Eetvelt will enter his already 4th season in professional peloton next week at the Tour Down Under, yet the Belgian has completed only one full season so far, in 2023. The two more recent seasons were tainted by Van Eetvelt's health issues that prevented him from racking up more than 40...

The National cyclocross Championships weekend brought about many impressive performances as well as surprises, but perhaps the greatest was witnessed in the women's elite race at Dutch Championships. In the most anticipated race of the women's cyclocross branch, Lucinda Brand was the outright favour...

The Belgian cyclocross Championships did not have a surprising winner as Thibau Nys confirmed his position of the best rider behind uncatchable Mathieu van der Poel and Wout Van Aert to claim his second consecutive title. However further down the result sheet, you could find a number of unexpected p...

One moment at the Belgian Championships in Beringen almost rewrote the whole story. Thibau Nys looked in control, the race seemed settled, and even those watching from the VIP area believed the title was decided. Then came the mistake. Bart Wellens, writing in his Crossprofessor column for Het Nieuw...

INEOS Grenadiers have spent several winters talking about “transition”. This one feels different. On NBC Sports Cycling’s Beyond the Podium Podcast, Bob Roll described the team’s recent months in unusually direct terms. Looking at their new signings and internal changes, he said it could be “the bes...

Arnaud De Lie’s early-season plans have been thrown into doubt by an accident that had nothing to do with racing. An awkward fall at home left him with ankle ligament damage, forcing the Belgian to slow everything down and rethink the opening months of his year. Speaking to Sporza, De Lie made it cl...

Only ten days after his heavy crash in Mol ended his cyclocross winter, Wout van Aert is already back riding outdoors. The Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider shared a gentle one-hour spin from Herentals on Monday, his first outdoor ride since undergoing surgery for a fractured ankle. The session was cl...

The INEOS Grenadiers have been hit by an early-season setback. Spanish rider Óscar Rodriguez has suffered a serious training crash, fracturing his hip and undergoing surgery. This injury will now rule him out of the opening months of the 2026 season. After the operation, the INEOS rider will now hav...

A huge weekend of national championships delivered drama, solos, comebacks and late scares across Europe. Some of the biggest races have already had full post-race treatment on our site. Below is the full picture of who won where, starting with the races we covered in depth, then moving through the...

Puck Pieterse was unable to defend the national jersey as she finished second at the Dutch National Championships in Huijbergen, losing the title to Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado. However, the loss of the jersey was not her biggest concern after the race. Pieterse was in pain following a strange crash...

Bastien Tronchon knows exactly what he is walking into. The Spring Classics are chaos, pressure and power all rolled into one, and now, in new colours, he is being asked to step forward rather than hide. After leaving the Decathlon set up for a three-year deal with Groupama - FDJ United, the Frenchm...

João Almeida is not talking like a rider making up numbers. When he looks back at La Vuelta a Espana 2025 and forward to the 2026 Giro d'Italia, the message is clear. He believes the gap to the very top is small, manageable, and shrinking. At the Vuelta last season, Almeida finished second overall b...

A routine winter training ride around Calpe took a surreal turn when Soudal - Quick-Step riders found a car somehow stranded on a roadside wall on one of the area’s busiest cycling roads. The team were out on their usual January training loop when they came across the vehicle sitting awkwardly above...

Jonas Vingegaard is used to collecting yellow jerseys. Now he is quietly building something else as well: a serious property portfolio. According to a report by Ekstra Bladet, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike leader has just bought another house in the Danish fishing town of Glyngore, taking his total...

Getting into cycling is as exciting as it is demanding. The bike opens the door to a complete outdoor sport with multiple physical and mental benefits, but it also poses challenges for those who start riding regularly for the first time. Lack of experience, excess enthusiasm, or simple inexperience...

Between two training camps in Calpe, Mikel Landa reflects on his passion for cycling and his goals ahead of a third season with Soudal - Quick-Step. The Basque rider is gearing up for his 16th consecutive year in the pro ranks, something he never imagined when he debuted in the peloton at the Trofeo...

Julian Alaphilippe and Remco Evenepoel were teammates throughout many years at Soudal - Quick-Step, and from the Frenchman, Evenepoel learnt a lot - specially as both were riders destined to be at the very top of the sport. Both have now left the team, and Alaphilippe understands the decision of his...

Team Jayco AlUla's blunder as the Australian national championships created a new awkward situation for the team, which was used to the fullest advantage by Patrick Eddy. The Team Brennan rider was actually in the World Tour until last fall, but was not renewed by Team Picnic PostNL and was out for...

I’ve always believed transfer seasons reveal more about cycling’s future than most race days. Stripped of finish lines and podiums, moves between teams expose ambition and long-term thinking of each professional outlet. And, the 2025/2026 offseason feels like it has been especially telling. Establis...

Simon Yates’ decision to end his professional career with immediate effect has closed one story and opened another. Team Visma | Lease a Bike confirmed the Brit’s retirement in a statement on 7 January, describing it as the end of a final season that delivered both a Giro d’Italia victory and a Tour...

The women’s elite Belgian cyclocross championships ended early and painfully for Laura Verdonschot, who abandoned the race while riding outside the top ten, bringing her final appearance at a national championships to an abrupt close. Verdonschot had hoped for one last strong ride on home soil in Be...

Groupama - FDJ is beginning a new chapter. With the legendary Marc Madiot stepping down and Thierry Cornec taking over as General Manager, the team is undergoing a significant cultural shift. After narrowly avoiding the relegation zone last year, the team is now openly prioritizing the UCI points sy...

Everything comes to an end eventually, and this weekend marked the last national championships for Lars van der Haar. The veteran Dutch rider already announced that he will put an end to his long and successful career after the 2025-2026 season is over, and he wanted to say goodbye in style. While h...

The collapse of the Arkéa - B&B Hotels team at the end of last season forced many riders to scramble for new contracts, but that wasn't the case for Ewen Costiou. The talented French rider was one of the best riders of his team, and he has found a new home at Groupama - FDJ. Costiou, who spent the e...

Alexander Kristoff recently put an end to his career, while his younger half-brother, Felix Orn-Kristoff, is just getting started. But behind both of them stands the same architect: Stein Orn. The 57-year-old has spent decades refining a training philosophy that turned Alexander into a highly succes...

The battle for the Belgian tricolor lived up to the hype in Beringen on Sunday. As predicted, it turned into a duel between the biggest favorite, Thibau Nys, and Emiel Verstrynge. While Nys eventually claimed the jersey for the second year in a row, he had to fight until the very last meter against...

Lidl-Trek is entering 2026 with a new look. After a winter of heavy investment, including the blockbuster signing of Juan Ayuso and the arrival of Derek Gee, the American team is positioning itself as super team ready to challenge UAE and Visma's hegemony in Grand Tours. At the center of this transf...

Cameron Mason’s fourth straight British elite cyclocross title in South Shields looked commanding on paper. On the ground, it felt anything but. After a race defined by frozen ground, deep mud and constant sliding, Mason admitted the victory pushed him harder than most. “It was probably one of the t...

Lucinda Brand did not hide her frustration after finishing third at the Dutch National Championships in Huijbergen. After a winter in which she had dominated much of the women’s field, winning 17 of her 20 races, the pre-race favourite left without the red white blue jersey and without the feeling s...

Tibor Del Grosso’s second straight Dutch national cyclocross title in Huijbergen was anything but smooth. What looked like control from a distance turned into a race full of problems, pressure and late doubt. After holding off Pim Ronhaar through the middle phase and then surviving a strong late sur...

Thibau Nys kept hold of the Belgian national cyclocross jersey in Beringen, but the way he defended it was far more dramatic than it had looked for much of the race. After building control on the climbs and riding much of the race alone at the front, Nys crashed on a fast descent and then had to sur...

Tibor Del Grosso successfully defended his Dutch national cyclocross title in Huijbergen after a race that kept changing shape, with Pim Ronhaar and Lars van der Haar both taking turns at threatening his grip on the red, white and blue jersey. With Mathieu van der Poel absent, Del Grosso started as...

Thibau Nys defended his Belgian elite men’s cyclocross title in Beringen after a race that swung from early control to late-race chaos, before settling only in the final metres. European champion Toon Aerts led into the course at the start, but Nys moved through immediately and began forcing the pac...

Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado did not treat her Dutch national championships title as a finish line. For her, the win in Huijbergen felt more like proof that a long, difficult road was finally pointing in the right direction. After beating Puck Pieterse and Lucinda Brand to reclaim the Dutch cyclocross...

Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado is the new Dutch national cyclocross champion after a decisive ride at the championships in Huijbergen. The Fenix-Premier Tech rider beat team mate Puck Pieterse into second place, with Lucinda Brand, widely tipped as pre-race favourite, finishing third. The buildup had be...

Patrick Eddy did not arrive in Perth as a favourite. He left as the Australian champion. Just days into his first season with continental Team Brennan, the former WorldTour rider produced a perfectly judged sprint to deny Luke Plapp and flip the race on its head in the final few hundred metres. Team...

Modern cycling keeps asking more, earlier, and for longer. The calendar is denser, the speeds are higher, and the pressure to be in shape from the very first race of the year has become normal. As surprise retirements stack up, the debate around burnout is no longer theoretical. When Simon Yates wal...

The question that keeps coming back around the Nys camp is not really about form, fitness or even results. It is about timing. “How long will Mathieu keep crossing?” Sven Nys asks. He does not ask it lightly. He asks it because the rise of his son Thibau is colliding with the continued presence of o...

Pro cycling is going through a major shift, and in the current peloton, it is being more and more frequent to see riders retire from the sport at a young age. Michel Ries of Arkéa - B&B Hotels is another one who has announced he is moving on from competition, despite being only 27 years in age.   "...

The 2025/26 winter is once again fully controlled by Mathieu van der Poel, who's yet to be defeated in the field. After the injury of Wout Van Aert, only man seems close enough to at least challenge the seven-time cyclocross world champion - Thibau Nys. But the young Belgian seems to miss a bit of l...

The 2026 season is starting and the transfer market, whilst never officially closed, has seen the grand majority of the action already take place. We take a look at the teams that have grown the most, and the opposite. Surprisingly, INEOS Grenadiers comes out on top whilst both Team Visma | Lease a...

Rivalries are what fuels sport to a whole different level and over the 2020's, pro cycling has seen two riders stand out from the rest when it comes to the Grand Tours: Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. This rivalry is further accentuated by the duo's difference in personality and off-the-bike liv...

The investment in pro cycling is, in its current form, larger than ever. Not only are million-euro contracts being handed out on the regular, but a few teams are now also willing and able to conduct contract buyouts in the value of millions. One such is Oscar Onley towards INEOS Grenadiers, which mi...

Jonas Vingegaard starting his Grand Tour season at the Giro d’Italia has immediately raised a bigger question than calendars and race routes. Is this a sporting experiment, or a strategic sidestep from the most dominant rider of this generation? On the latest episode of NBC Sports Cycling’s Beyond t...

Groupama - FDJ managed to keep their WorldTour license at the end of 2025, but it was a close call. After finishing the season in 18th place, the last safe spot in the rankings, the French team is changing its approach for the new season.  The 2026 season marks year one of the new UCI promotion/rele...

Lidl-Trek strengthened its long-term ambitions this winter with the arrivals of Juan Ayuso and Derek Gee, but the team is also placing increasing emphasis on developing its own talent, and Albert Philipsen is one of the best examples. The Danish prodigy who skipped the U23 ranks to turn pro at just...

After a four-year hiatus during which she worked as a sports director at SD Worx-Protime, Anna van der Breggen returned to the peloton last season. Now, with that initial adjustment period behind her, the Dutch icon enters 2026 with renewed confidence and a clear warning to her rivals: she is back t...

Groupama - FDJ has announced the calendar of some of its riders for the upcoming season, placing the spring classics and the Tour de France at the centre of its ambitions. In the one-day races, Romain Grégoire will be one of the key figures. In addition to the Ardennes classics, the young French ri...

Despite claiming two victories in 2025, Guillaume Martin does not look back on his season with satisfaction. Hampered by illness and injuries and unable to make his mark in the Grand Tours, the French climber finished the year frustrated. He is now approaching 2026 with what he describes as a spirit...

The national championships of cyclocross are taking place this weekend in most of the countries, and Belgium is obviously amongst them. One of the biggest favourites to take the title is Emiel Verstrynge, who has had an extremely consistent season so far.  Verstrynge has a clear goal in mind: to fin...

After months of uncertainty, the worst news was confirmed: Eli Iserbyt has been forced to retire from cyclocross. The Belgian has ultimately lost his battle against a persistent femoral artery injury, bringing a premature and heartbreaking end to his professional career. It was on Thursday when Iser...

In 2025, road cycling fans were able to enjoy more showdowns between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard than they were used to. Until last year, they barely crossed paths during the season, apart from the Tour de France, where they are always the main protagonists. But last season they met at the Cr...

Oscar Onley is not trying to shock anyone. He is not claiming cycling is rotten. But he is also not prepared to pretend that everything is perfect. “I don’t believe it’s completely clean,” he said in conversation with BBC Radio Scotland. In one calm sentence, he summed up the balance he now lives wi...

Marion Norbert Riberolle admitted she had a moment of panic in the opening lap of the Belgian national cyclocross championships, before turning that early wobble into a second straight national title. The defending champion made another sluggish start in Beringen and briefly found herself buried in...

Marion Norbert Riberolle defended her Belgian women’s elite cyclocross title with a controlled and ultimately dominant ride, turning an awkward start into a clear victory over Fleur Moors, with Kiona Crabbe completing the podium. Norbert Riberolle did not have things her own way early on. As in seve...

Watching the Tour de France from his sofa last July hurt. Not because the racing was dramatic, but because David Gaudu believed he should have been there. Instead, he was at home, watching the favourites tear each other apart in the mountains, knowing his place was supposed to be among them. Now, ev...

This week cyclocross has been hit with the tragic news that Eli Iserbyt has had to end his career due to an iliac artery injury that is now untreatable. The discipline may lose Mathieu van der Poel if he wins his eighth world title in Hulst; whilst Johan Bruyneel believes that the crashes and risks...

It was rumoured before the calendar reveal on the 10th of December in Mallorca, but when Remco Evenepoel talked to the media, the schedule he outlined did not include the UAE Tour. However, as it is being reported, the Belgian will indeed be present at the Emirati race this next February where a bat...

Tim Declercq is a rider closely associated to the long flat stages, where he would spend large hours in the front working for his leaders. The former pro and now Soudal - Quick-Step coach believes that this would be the safest position however in a peloton that is riding with increasingly more and m...

Pauwels Sauzen-Altez Industriebouw has had the loss of Eli Iserbyt be confirmed this week, and the Belgian team is now looking for a replacement for the Belgian. The team wants to remain on top of the cyclocross world, and can be one of the big players in the upcoming transfer market.  "It was defin...

Fabio Jakobsen was one of the top sprinters in the early 2020's, even though he suffered a career-changing and life-threatening crash at the 2020 Tour de Pologne. In recent years, his performance has been more often hampered by an iliac artery issue (the same that just forced Eli Iserbyt into retire...

The 2026 Tour Down Under will open the new road season in less than two weeks. At the Australian WorldTour stage race, Movistar Team are aiming high. Last year they took 2nd overall thanks to Javier Romo, who also claimed a stage win. For the imminent Tour Down Under, Romo will return as leader, a...

Transition from under-23 cyclcross star to top rider in elite category is never easy. But that doesn't apply for Tibor del Grosso who made it seem like a light work and became a permanent feature on World Cup podium, and even won two Superprestige rounds. If Thibau Nys is seen as successor of Wout...

Lorena Wiebes was one of the main protagonists of the 2025 season, winning breath-taking 25 road races - enough to land her at the top of the annual UCI ranking, second only to compatriot and former teammate Demi Vollering. The Dutchwoman also secured rainbow stripes on track and in gravel, certifyi...

Soudal - Quick-Step can still lean back on their experienced sprinter Tim Merlier, but his successor Paul Magnier is growing so fast that he might overshadow his Belgian teammate in almost no time. The 21-year-old secured 19 professional victories in 2025, and shows no signs of slowing down in his q...

The Dutch cyclocross Championships will be one of the most anticipated races of the weekend, alongside their Belgian counterparts. The KNWU have presented the course for Sunday's race which take place in Huijberge. The venuie has already witnessed a number of the races to declare the best cyclocross...

Back to square one. That's how the managers of Picnic PostNL must be feeling after the departure of Oscar Onley. By far not the first time this has happened in team's history. It's a tale old as time. A talented rider grows within the Dutch formation, only to spread their wings the second they get a...

The Vuelta al Táchira 2026 will once again open the UCI stage‑race season despite the capture of Nicolás Maduro by the United States. The Venezuelan race, now in its 61st edition, runs from the 9th to the 18th of January and returns to an ambitious format with ten stages and a route exceeding 1,500...

Nairo Quintana’s name returns to the spotlight as the cycling calendar kicks off. While the peloton his last year in the peloton a decisive 2026 in his professional career. Amid conflicting reports about his future and his role at Movistar Team, the Colombian rider has chosen to answer on the road....

Team Picnic PostNL managed to save their World Tour license into 2026 and had a breakthrough summer with Oscar Onley who finished fourth at the Tour de France. The Dutch team got back on its feet but the loss of the Briton poses an massive hit to its abilities of performing in the Grand Tours this y...

Nutrition is one of cycling's most important factors and weight management is absolutely key for riders at the top level. Whilst it seems counter-intuitive, new Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider Filippo Fiorelli says that he is eating more than ever, but is no longer experiencing issues maintaining hi...

Modern cycling requires an extreme level of dedication and attention to detail, more so than when Dylan van Baarle turn pro. Often, it is difficult to balance one's desires with what is objectively assessed as the best training and preparation methods, and that is partially the reason why the former...

Simon Yates announced yesterday, against all expectations, that he is retiring from professional cycling at 33, a decision that has sent shockwaves through the peloton and among fans. The British rider, one of the standout names in Grand Tour racing over the past decade, closes a career marked by wi...

Matteo Jorgenson has evolved tremendously since joining Team Visma | Lease a Bike. Not only has he taken meaningful wins, but the American rider has already proved to be incredibly versatile and a perfect domestique for Jonas Vingegaard. But in the future, he wants to take up his own Grand Tour oppo...

This Thursday afternoon, a teary-eyed Eli Iserbyt shared a post on Instagram where he has confirmed that he has ended his career as a professional cyclist. The news come after he sustained meaningful damage to an artery that prevents him from getting on a bike or running, a condition that may be per...

Tim Merlier is one of the strongest sprinters in the current peloton and alongside Jonathan Milan, he was supposed to headline a great sprinter battle at the AlUla Tour. However that is no longer the plan, as the Soudal - Quick-Step rider suffered a knee injury last month and is still on his way bac...

Jasper Stuyven has spent his entire professional career at Lidl-Trek, over a decade, and is now for the first time moving away into a different environment. At age 33, the Belgian still has a strong word in the classics and got the trust of Soudal - Quick-Step for a three-year deal where he will be...

Soudal - Quick-Step is starting out their first season without Remco Evenepoel this decade and it's going to be a very different one. The team puts back its focus on the classics and prioritizes the sprints forward, and it will provide an opportunity for other riders to shine.  "Remco spent many yea...

With several major World Tour structures already unveiled for 2026, including UAE Team Emirates and Lidl-Trek, the launch calendar is entering its final stretch. This Thursday saw Soudal - Quick-Step's media day in Calpe and here, Mikel Landa revealed that he is considering racing all three Grand To...

Team Picnic PostNL find themselves in a dire situation with view to 2026 season, although the new year has only just started. The loss of Oscar Onley who was bought out of his contract by INEOS Grenadiers left a hole in the Dutch team's plans for the season ahead, but now they need to make amends fo...

The stage 20 of 2025 Giro d'Italia, which featured the returning giant Colle delle Finestre, will be remembered for many reasons. The tactical chess between Isaac del Toro and Richard Carapaz, the brilliant Wout Van Aert, and the fairy tale of Simon Yates are just a few of the many points that will...

French cycling have a very exciting group of young riders beginning to make a name for themselves in the professional peloton. Of course the main attention is on the outstanding talens Paul Seixas, Lenny Martinez and Romain Grégoire, but Tudor Pro Cycling's Mathys Rondel is not to be underestimated....

Team SD Worx - Protime will once again draw the eyes of fans and rivals alike in 2026 thanks to their standout outfits, as if their extra-orbitary performances weren't enough of an attention-drawer. Lorena Wiebes is nearly certain to triumph a lot in the new colours, but how about Lotte Kopecky? 202...

Matteo Trentin rode a more than decent 2025 season - a year that didn't bring any breakthrough result, but didn't disappoint neither. Although the 36-year-old had to wait for his first victory of the year until October when he won a sprint of a reduced group to triumph at the traditional Paris-Tours...

Isaac del Toro is making his Tour de France debut in 2026, fruit of a natural progression as he's tackled the other two Grand Tours already. However this wasn't always the plan, at UAE Team Emirates - XRG there was an initial idea to have Del Toro and João Almeida teaming up at the Giro d'Italia.  “...

Simon Yates wrote one of the most beautiful stories in cycling's recent history with his iconic Giro d'Italia coup. Seven years after his career's greatest heartbreak, the Brit returned to Colle delle Finestre to close the chapter that has been for so long at the back of his mind. And although he di...

Eli Iserbyt is retiring from professional cycling. In a message shared on Instagram this Thursday afternoon, the cyclocross rider has confirmed that he is ending his career under medical advice that has been given to him, thus putting a final point in what is one of the most successful careers in mo...

Paul Magnier is a Soudal - Quick-Step rider until 2029. The Frenchman still had an ongoing contract, but the Belgian team took no chances when it came to their new top talent which, at 21 years of age, already has 24 stage win in his palmarès and promises to deliver more.  “Paul is a rider with exce...

Remco Evenepoel has moved to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe with the goal of improving and, potentially, win the Tour de France one day. Most likely, he will have to be better than Tadej Pogacar at some point in time for this to happen, something which former teammate Tim Declercq sees as hard but not...

Soudal - Quick-Step were for years, even decades, at the forefront of the cobbled classics. With several legends going through their ranks, the Belgian team was used to winning at home, but in recent years it has not only lacked the power to contest with the new leaders; but also largely also lacked...

There is a worrying trend over the past few years that Team Visma | Lease a Bike is truly losing ground to UAE Team Emirates - XRG. Whilst in some ways the Dutch team continues to be the only match, or rival to the Emirati team, this could stop being the case after the team has lost several signific...

After four seasons with UAE Team Emirates - XRG, Marc Hirschi moved away and into a more familiar setting with the Swiss Tudor Pro Cycling Team. It was a year where he wasn't often present at the head of affairs however, but he wants to change that. At the team's media day in Moraira, Hirschi discus...

Christian Scaroni has hit what is perhaps the peak of his career at age 27 this past season, performing incredibly well throughout the year where he took several high-level victories. The Italian tells that he never would've expected such performances, and that this was brought out by XDS Astana Tea...

The retirement of Simon Yates from professional cycling continues to prompt deep analysis across the sport. After the initial shock, one of the most authoritative voices to unpack the decision has been Javier Ares, the veteran Spanish cycling journalist, who devoted much of his YouTube show to outli...

In 2024 Michael Storer confirmed his potential as a Grand Tour rider by finishing Top10 at the Giro d'Italia, and this past season he again finished 10th. However this was under very specific circumstances as he crashed on four occasions; whilst throughout the rest of the year he showed on several o...

More and more pro cyclists are pushing the boundaries of 'tradition', and at this point in time, quite a few take up altitude training right from January onwards before the start of the season. That is the case with Tom Pidcock, who will be heading to Chile to train at 2700 meters of altitude soon w...

The 2026 season has officially begun today in Australia with the national championships. In the time trial event we have seen Jay Vine take his first victory of the year for UAE Team Emirates - XRG whilst Feclity Wilson-Haffenden took the win in the women's event. The 38-kilometer long time trial in...

The days leading into the road season are usually quiet. Most teams have their rosters locked with the start fast approaching. That was the case also this January, with final touches before the 2026 Tour Down Under. Then Simon Yates blew everything up. In a decision that stunned the cycling world, t...

Cycling off-season is over, the 2026 has started. And while the main audience in Europe will have to wait for racing a little bit longer, the season will get underway with a number of so-called "season-openers", including the AlUla Tour in Saudi Arabia. While the race doesn't bring many novelties to...

Tudor Pro Cycling didn't quite manage to sneak among the elite 18 teams which will belong to the WorldTour category in 2026-28 period, but the Swiss team nevertheless belongs to the best you'll find in the cycling's second division. And although they already had a more than decent lineup in 2025, th...

In 2022, Tom Dumoulin stepped away from professional cycling as one of the standout riders of the previous decade, having won the 2017 Giro d’Italia, become a time trial world champion, and a multiple stage winner at the Giro, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. His command of the bike was striking,...

The 2026 season is about to begin. More precisely, it will happen in less than two weeks with the first stage of Tour Down Under set for Tuesday, January 20. The Australian WorldTour race is crucial for Jayco AlUla as the home team, and therefore also for Ben O'Connor, the country’s leading star. Th...

In recent days, several reports have hinted that Jonas Vingegaard is already confirmed to ride the 2026 Giro d’Italia, a move which could mark his debut at the Corsa Rosa with the aim of completing the set of the three Grand Tours, joining a historic elite that includes Eddy Merckx, Alberto Contador...

Ambition is not being disguised at the Decathlon CMA CGM Team. With a new sprint structure taking shape and a clear Tour de France objective already defined, Mark Renshaw has outlined a programme built around winning at the highest level rather than settling for presence. Speaking in quotes collecte...

The timing was striking. On the same day that Simon Yates confirmed his immediate retirement from professional cycling, Julian Alaphilippe was speaking openly about the long view of his own career and the possibility that some of cycling’s biggest stages may soon carry added finality. Alaphilippe’s...

As the professional peloton begins to roll back into motion, with January training camps underway and the first races of the new campaign approaching, the margins for riders without a contract are shrinking fast. Teams are already focused on performance, logistics and objectives for the year ahead,...

In the 2026 season, Tadej Pogacar will chase a fifth Tour de France. If the Slovenian wins the Grande Boucle again, he will match the all-time record held by Eddy Merckx, Miguel Induráin, Jacques Anquetil, and Bernard Hinault. He will likely do it on a Colnago priced over €10,000. At UAE Team Emirat...

Concern around the health of Eddy Merckx has not eased. After a prolonged period marked by serious injury, multiple medical procedures and recurring setbacks, a fresh update from inside Merckx’s personal circle suggests the situation remains unresolved. That update comes from Rudy De Bie, a former...

Julian Alaphilippe will begin his 2026 campaign with a clear and deliberate structure. A Portuguese season opener, a spring built almost entirely around the Classics and a planned return to the Tour de France underline a programme that leans into his strengths rather than spreading his efforts thinl...

Cyclocross risk has returned to the centre of the conversation this winter, sharpened by Wout van Aert’s latest serious crash and the abrupt end of his campaign. But inside Alpecin-Premier Tech, panic has never been part of the response. For team manager Christoph Roodhooft, crashes remain an unavoi...

Simon Yates has announced his immediate retirement from professional cycling, bringing one of Britain’s most successful modern careers to a close at the very peak of his powers. The 33-year-old Brit has decided to step away following a career-defining season with Team Visma | Lease a Bike in 2025, a...

Soudal - Quick-Step is going through a major shift this winter, with the departure of Remco Evenepoel, and a renewed focus on the spring classics with signings such as Jasper Stuyven and Dylan van Baarle; and in the sprints with a signing of a third major sprinter in Alberto Dainese. However, the te...

In cycling there is a serious argument to make that its top teams are, now more than ever, being financed by controversial entities. Many of the top teams in the sport currently are financed by petro-states such as UAE Team Emirates - XRG; billionaire oil companies such as INEOS Grenadiers, warmonge...

It is not frequent in the peloton, however it happens more often than the TV cameras capture it. At the 2024 Paris-Roubaix there was an instance where Daan Hoole was punched by XDS Astana Team's Yevgeniy Fedorov, and when the two saw each other again this time in a training ride during Spain, it alm...

Ruben Guerreiro said he was surprised by the way his name was linked to a story he considers unfounded, rejecting any irregularities regarding his whereabouts or the ADAMS system in which the riders are mandated to share their location with the anti-doping authorities. The Portuguese rider is taking...

The 2025 season will be remembered largely for the commanding wins of Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. But, by no means was this a predictable year, and there were many moments where the script broke down entirely. In races usually shaped by hierarchy, reputation, and team control, three resu...

Patrick Lefevere and Remco Evenepoel have now both stepped away from Soudal - Quick-Step, making for the start of a new era. The former team manager has commented on the Olympic Champion's move to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe and his ambition to win the Tour de France against Tadej Pogacar.  "He says...

Wout van Aert may be forced to remain out of competition for almost three months following surgery to address what was initially described as a “small fracture” sustained during the cyclocross race in Mol, where he had been riding strongly in direct contention with Mathieu van der Poel. “Of course I...

Mathieu van der Poel took what was perhaps his most dominant win of the cyclocross season thus far at the World Cup Zonhoven, despite claiming he is not yet at his best level. The World Champion has recalled Wout van Aert, and also talked about his return home to Spain where he will focus on prepari...

Frank van den Broek already made a name for himself in the peloton as a talented climber, and a hard-to-get-rid-of breakaway comrade when the crunch time comes. However for 2026, his Team Picnic PostNL bosses have prepared a meticulous spring programme, centered around the mighty Tour of Flanders. "...

Filippo Baroncini's 2025 season was cut short due to a heavy crash at the Tour de Pologne. The 25-year-old Italian spent two weeks in coma to allow his body to deal with the severe injuries, but by the end of October, the young timetrialist returned to the saddle and launched his preparation for com...

It is a signing that had been in the making for a while, and it has now been made official. Derek Gee is joining Lidl-Trek with a three-year contract running all the way to 2028. The German team's level grows even further by capturing the last top-level rider who was available on the market.  “Bring...