Feb 4, 2025 · Every July the best cyclists take part in the Tour de France. You can have a few exceptions but they often just prove the rule. But what would it take to change this, could you launch a rival race using big appearance fees and a large prize pot?

Jan 28, 2025 · Teams are ranked on the basis of their UCI points for each of the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons. This annual score is based on the total of a team’s 20 best scorers. Any ProTeams from cycling’s second tier in the top-18 are eligible for promotion. WorldTeams below 18th place face relegation. There ...

Jan 14, 2025 · I’d love to see a cyclocross stage as part of a GT. And I don’t mean a ‘gravel stage’, I mean an actual cyclocross race! Riders swap onto specialist bikes for TTs, so why not have one stage where they swap to cx bikes & knobbly 33mm tyres; gridding determined by the GC…an hour long cross would create bigger time gaps than any other stage in the race!

Dec 6, 2024 · Take out the top two and sixteen seconds behind it looked like the world championships for sprinters with Meeus, Philipsen, Milan, Kooij, Merlier, Groenwegen and Trentin all in the top ten.

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Oct 8, 2021 · The same but different. The course changes every year but the race remains the same, a long distance test across the plains, valleys and climbs of Lombardia, a scenic race for viewers and a technical challenge for participants with …

Oct 12, 2024 · 2 Grand Tours, 2 Monuments and the World Championship in one year is unprecedented. But that’s quite a specific combination. Merckx managed similar domination several times; for example 1971 (one Grand Tour, three monuments and the World Championship) or 1972 (two Grand Tours and three monuments – plus the Hour record).

Jan 24, 2025 · Ten riders to watch in 2025. Some are picked as tips for their raw talent, others to see what paths they will go down. Juan Ayuso sits a gilded cage. Enjoying a long contract on generous terms, his problem is being let out to race for himself on a team that’s stacked with stage-racing talent.

Jan 30, 2025 · Different from what? (Scratching my head) By the way, bags & EPO as a dominant method (never separated from other hormones, i.e. corticosteroids, a range of sexual hormones, GH etc.) went on alternating and combining each other through 20+ years (bags, EPO, bags again, CERA/micrododing, bags again…), with Armstrong being a champion of both with no manifest change in the sort of prep or ...

Apr 6, 2024 · Weather: cloudy and a top temperature of 19°C.Crucially a 25km/h wind from the SW which could gust to 40km/h. This means a tailwind for the first half of the race and then for the second half, a crosswind or at least in the general direction of travel as the race twists on its way northwest towards Roubaix.