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Stage 3, Malselv, Norway 7 AUGUST 2021 The peloton is strung out as it passes betweeen Finnsnes and Malselv in the very north of Norway during the third stage of this year’s Arctic Race. Arkea-Samsic can be seen right at the front of the bunch, along

Money matters. The richer the team, the better it tends to do, with few exceptions. However, it does take time to build a team, no matter what your resources. After their takeover by the Abu Dhabi royal family in 2008, it took Manchester City four ye

12 The number of months, at the time of going to press, that Bryan Coquard has gone without a win. The French sprinter is moving teams next season, from B&B Hotels p/b KTM to Cofidis, after four years with the Breton squad. Peter Sagan says that he i

Henri who? Vandenabeele. Quite a mouthful, we know, but the 21-year-old from Deinze, Belgium, is one of the hottest properties on the under-23 scene right now. After just two years at this level, he will be graduating to the Team DSM senior team for

Where’s home? Near Geneva, Switzerland. What’s your favourite race? Strade Bianche. I love the gravel, atmosphere and roads, and the course with the hills. It is one race I would really love to win one day. What’s your favourite climb? The Col de la

I live in the south of France. It’s good here - always good weather, and I enjoy the training. I have been in Marseille since 2008, so it has already been 13 years, which is quite a long time, even though it doesn’t feel that long. I was with my nati

Racism and cycling became a talking point for a brief period in the cycling world following the huge waves of Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests triggered by the killing of the African American George Floyd, a black man suffocated to death by a

The Olympic Games is the pinnacle of world sport. However in the increasingly commercial sponsor-rich cycling world, many teams see it as an inconvenience as their riders seek personal goals that have little benefit for the team. As a rider it means

Breaks have changed somewhat at races like the Tour de France, and so have the riders who are getting into them. Trek-Segafredo’s Bauke Mollema is perhaps the new archetype - the Dutchman achieved his second career stage win at this summer’s race, in

The first thing Bauke Mollema says after a race is often: “It went pretty well.” It’s been going pretty well for Bauke Mollema for the best part of 14 seasons now. This stoic warrior from Groningen, aged 34, isn’t easily shaken and has long since ear

IN 2012 Matej Mohoric?, then barely 18, cleaned house. In the latter half of his last season as a junior, he won nearly everything he touched, including the Junior World Championships, plus a second place in the corresponding time trial. The followin

The Basque Country is Spain’s cycling heartland. Girona and Mallorca might have the expat throng of tourists and pros, the Sierra Nevada high altitude training, but Euskadi is the soul, with fabulous riders and passionate fans. I’ve visited the regio

Ben O’Connor’s victory in the ninth stage of the 2021 Tour de France at Tignes in the Alps and his race to fourth place overall in Paris saw him labelled as the next young road cycling star from Australia. O’Connor had previously shown flashes of his

After Lizzie Deignan was outwitted By Elise Chabbey in a two-up sprint on stage 1 of the Tour de Suisse, her Trek-Segafredo team began the second stage on the back foot. But the team’s performance that day around Frauenfeld was proof, if it were need

When David Lappartient took over the Presidency of the International Cycling Union (UCI) in the autumn of 2017, he had surfed a wave both of political infighting and anti-British sentiment that secured his success and hastened the exit of predecessor

Adversity can be a better stimulus than the good times. EF-Nippo’s Mitch Docker recalls when the 2019 Vuelta a España went badly wrong for the team on stage 5, and how they turned their race around. “We had a big crash and lost Rigo Urán and Hugh Car

Covering any race in the weeks after the Tour de France was always a let-down, no matter how distinguished the event’s history or how high quality the field. The sense of anticlimax, bizarrely enough, makes them all quite easy to remember. The Wincan

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£6,619 ||| $6,500 Slice through the air with the P-Series time trial bike from Cervélo. It is designed to simply get a rider from A to B as fast as possible. It is stiffer, lighter and more aerodynamic than its predecessor, with Cervélo saying that i

Nothing is moving on the dark waters of Idefjord. The wooded surrounds are quiet and other than the rumble of the odd car or the buzz of a two-stroke scooter, the Norwegian town of Halden is quiet. On a nearby deserted harbourside a few hundred metre

João Almeida, Deceuninck-Quick Step’s young Portuguese rider, has waited a comparatively long time for his first professional wins, at least given the expectations which have surrounded him since his brilliant breakout season as a first-year pro in 2

Neilson Powless took his first WorldTour victory at San Sebastian. The American was in the winning move of three that contained Mikkel Honoré and Matej Mohoric?. That move had gone inside the final 23km after Powless’s team-mate Simon Carr had spent

Generally in stage races, you don’t learn much new on the second mountain stage that you didn’t find out on the first, especially in a week-long event. The strongest climber generally wins when the race goes into the mountains, and all other things b

UAE Emirates 22 Groupama-FDJ 16 Trek-Segafredo 14 Israel Start-Up Nation 13 Movistar 11 Lotto Soudal 11 Despite their average showing at the Tour de France, Ineos Grenadiers remain top of the pile thanks to their impressive racing at most stage races

How does it feel to have won? It has been great. I didn’t have too much time to really enjoy it or let it sink it. This was my first day that I was relaxed and on my own, and I started to realise how big it was. How important is it to have won a GC t

What began as a bolt-on to the Vuelta a España, just as La Course was to the Tour de France, has now become a substantial race in its own right. The Ceratizit Challenge is even expanding to become a four-day stage race, with two hilly stages, a mount

25-26 Sep | Belgium | CM Both the men and women’s road races will tackle the six climbs of the Flandrian circuit; the men twice and the women once. The climbs do not roll off the tongue as easily as those we are familiar with from the Tour of Flander

19 Sep | Germany | 1.UWT Germany’s only WorldTour event is a strange one, a one-day classic that has been at the top table since 2017, and one with a history that dates back to 1962, yet which struggles to punch through. That might be because of its

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