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The cycling world has been split on whether plans unveiled by the UCI last week to ban the ‘super tuck’ aero descending position as part of a raft of safety measures are laudable or laughable. From 1 April riders will face possible suspension from ra

Young Brit Jake Stewart got his first full WorldTour season off to the perfect start last week at the Etoile de Bessèges, placing fourth on GC and taking the young rider’s white jersey. It was a result gained through consistent riding and a fine 10th

■ I hope Tom Dumoulin doesn’t do a Marcel Kittel and never make it back. Andrew Wright ■ Maybe cycling needs to do more to look after a rider’s mental health so it doesn’t reach this point? Lee Wood ■ When the moment comes when you think about sabbat

£12.99 per month (pm) Market leader Zwift offers an impressive range of organised group rides and races on 3D virtual courses, a new one kicking off every few minutes of every day. It also offers a multi-week seasonal team based racing league (the WT

Frenchman Henri Anglade fords his way along the wet roads near Bordeaux while a motorbike rider makes what we presume is a futile attempt to shield him with an umbrella. This stage, stage nine, of the race was a long flat affair down the coast from L

Lincolnshire’s Joe Laverick will ride for the under-23 development team Hagens Berman Axeon in 2021. Directed by Axel Merckx – son of the great Eddy Merckx, and himself a former professional racer – the team has produced such alumni as the 2020 Giro

Belgian Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) cemented his Etoile de Besseges overall win with an audacious downhill attack on stage three. From the break Wellens attacked on the descent of the day’s final climb as rival GC contender Micha? Kwiatkowski (Ineos G

Lots of parents and children are currently discovering that teaching isn’t nearly as easy as they all thought it was. It’s much simpler if we can all agree that cycling is the only topic worth considering. Physics: the power required to overcome aero

Former Sky riders Steve Cummings and Ian Stannard have taken on roles as sports directors for Ineos Grenadiers and Trinity Racing respectively. Cummings, who retired from riding at the end of 2019, said he was offered the spot as development director

In today’s allseeing media age it’s unusual that a British rider can make it all the way to the WorldTour while barely raising an eyebrow on their home soil. After all, the results in far-flung countries showcasing up-and-coming talent are only ever

2020 World Ranking 10 Established 2005 Team Manager Jonathan Vaughters Bike Cannondale 2020 17 2019 17 2018 6 Michael Valgren Whatever happened to the rider who won Omloop and Amstel in 2018 is a mystery. But at EF the Dane joins a formidable classic

Last season was a strange, difficult one for everybody in the peloton. For B&B Hotels rider Kévin Réza perhaps it was the most intense of all. Like everybody in the peloton, Kévin had to deal with the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic. Unlike them,

The Piazza del Campo is no stranger to sporting events. It hosts the Palio di Siena, a horse race with medieval origins. Ten horses and their riders thunder around the tight square for three laps, in a terrifying spectacle that often lasts less than

Last year was different for everyone. For cycling, it was pretty good, compared with other sports, but I only did three races. I did Tirreno, the Tour of Poland and the Giro. I was really prepared for the year, I went to lots of training camps before

1.WT: One-day UCI WorldTour race / 1.Pro: Major one-day race / 1.1: Minor one-day race / 2.WT: UCI WorldTour stage race / 2.Pro: Major stage race / 2.1: Minor stage race / WWT: Women's WorldTour race DRÔME/ARDÈCHE CLASSIC 27-28 Feb | France | 1.Pro I

Egan Bernal 1st Richard Carapaz 1st Tao Geoghegan Hart 1st Geraint Thomas 1st Richie Porte 3rd Andrey Amador 4th Adam Yates 4th Pavel Sivakov 9th Tom Dumoulin 1st Primož Roglič 1st Steven Kruijswijk 3rd Robert Gesink 6th George Bennett 8th Sam Oomen

We are indisputably in the era of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. The pair have eclipsed Peter Sagan and even Julian Alaphilippe as the dominant classics riders in the last two years, and the sport is optimistic that the exhilarating head-to-

Movistar ventured into the unknown in 2018, after nearly four decades of being one of the most successful teams in men’s professional cycling. The team announced, at their sponsor headquarters of Telefonica, the launch of a women’s programme. The Spa

The Giro d’Italia has always needed Italian winners, and the 1977 edition was a case in point. It was billed as a showdown between a local sporting David and a marauding foreigner. The previous September, the Worlds road race in Puglia had been a two

EDITOR Putting together this, our season preview edition, is always one of the most fun jobs of the year. With the season, and its infinite possibilities, stretching before us, we can anticipate the clashes to come, along with a comforting mix of the

On the men’s side, international road racing is currently fizzing with the energy and vigour of youth - Wout van Aert, Mathieu van der Poel, Remco Evenepoel, Tadej Pogacar, Mads Pedersen, Marc Hirschi, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Richard Carapaz, Jai Hindley

STAFF WRITER You’re always incredibly aware of your vulnerability as a cyclist on the road. No matter how experienced you are, no matter how beautiful your surroundings, the chance is there that at any moment one of the large, heavy metal boxes zoomi

21-27 FEBRUARY 2020 PODIUM 1st Adam Yates 2nd Tadej Pogačar 3rd Alexey Lutsenko The UAE Tour was ground zero for the covid-19 crisis as it hit cycling. Though it’s a race that can be hard to love, with the lack of varied terrain and atmosphere, along

The 2020 season was a second consecutive year of breakthrough performances by young riders, from Tadej Pogacar at the Tour, through Remco Evenepoel in every stage race he entered, to Marc Hirschi at Flèche Wallonne. And in his first year as a profess

2020 World Ranking 6 Established 2010 Team Manager Ralph Denk Bike Specialized 2020 21 2019 47 2018 33 Max Schachmann The versatile German Paris-Nice winner is a top stage racer. But he’s also on the verge of a major victory in a classic, having come

Some riders retire without ever having won a race. Others have to fight their whole career to get the taste of victory just a few times. But there are also riders who seem to have been born to win. After three seasons as a pro, Lorena Wiebes can coun

The last 10, 12 years I spent at Conti level with my former team, Raleigh and then Vitus Pro Cycling, and having to make the decision to close the door on that last year was heart wrenching. It was pretty emotional having to shut the service course d

9 NUMBER OF WWT TEAMS IN 2021 In 2020, women’s cycling was a simple sport. There were many exciting races, and then Anna van der Breggen won. The paradox is that while the racing is generally more open than on the men’s side of the sport, the outcome

The men’s WorldTour is officially a 19-team division. However, there’s a hierarchy, and you could roughly divide the teams into three categories - the superteams at the top, strugglers at the bottom, and everybody else in between. Through 2020, the s

Team Association should be a game all cycling fans play. Name a team. Then say whatever first comes into mind. La Vie Claire: kit. Festina: doping. US Postal Service: Armstrong. ONCE: Alex Zulle’s spectacles. Molteni: Merckx. Sky: the line (and where