6 h. ago Giro d’Italia stage one preview: Tom Pidcock and Wout van Aert hunt win on 160km route to Tirana

Punchy riders with a fast finish look best placed to win Friday’s opening stage of the 2025 Giro and claim the famous pink jersey

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13 h. ago Pogacar’s absence from Giro d’Italia may offer breath of fresh air for competition

Dominance of last year’s champion can become predictable and this event could be volatile with more opportunities for the pelotonThe 2025 Giro d’Italia may lack the star power of the Tour de France, but it is likely to make up for it with dynamic and unpredictable racing when it gets under way in Tirana on Friday.Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel, the top three riders in last year’s Tour de France, are not racing, but the Giro will, as ever, throw up plentiful drama. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Tadej Pogacar’s absence leaves Giro d’Italia field wide open – and gives his countryman another shot at glory

The defending champion may be skipping the corsa rosa but his absence leaves the door open to compatriot Primoz Roglic

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46 h. ago Geraint Thomas: ‘It’s been up and down. You remember the good times’

Tour de France winner in 2018 is building for a final assault on the great race before a farewell in Cardiff“Bike racing is all I have ever known,” says Geraint Thomas of the 19-year professional career that will end this summer with one final Tour de France and a farewell appearance in the Tour of Britain.While many of his peers are relishing a Tadej Pogacar-free Giro d’Italia that starts on Friday, the 2018 Tour winner has opted against three weeks in Italy, favouring one last ride in July’s French hothouse. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Battle over Brockwell Park escalates as locals warn area could become ‘soulless’ without music festivals

“For too long, a small but powerful group has dominated the debate about Lambeth’s future,” an open letter written to residents has said

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1 week ago The Remco Evenepoel renaissance is exactly what cycling needs

The Belgian’s return to action has set up a thrilling finale to the Spring Classics

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2 w. ago Ignore ‘retirement league’ jibes – Kevin De Bruyne would be great for MLS

The Manchester City star is reported to be on his way to the United States at age 34, raising a tired trope once againKevin De Bruyne can’t run any more. Or not like he used to anyway.That seems to be the verdict of his Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, who obliquely cited an absence of “physicality” in his explanation for leaving De Bruyne out of the lineup against Real Madrid in February. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tadej Pogacar dances up Mur de Huy to claim victory in Flèche Wallonne

World champion surges clear on race's brutal final climbKévin Vauquelin second, with Tom Pidcock coming thirdTadej Pogacar bounced back in style after his Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold Race heartbreaks as he claimed a second Flèche Wallonne title with an early attack in the finale on Wednesday.The world champion attacked when 400 metres from the finish on the brutally steep Mur de Huy and never looked back, prevailing over France’s Kévin Vauquelin and third-placed Tom Pidcock of Britain.More details soon Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tadej Pogacar pipped to victory by Mattias Skjelmose in thrilling Amstel Gold Race

Pogacar’s aura of invincibility took another hit as his solo attack was foiled in Limburg

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3 w. ago Van der Poel fends off Pogacar and bottle thrown at face to win Paris

Dutchman earns third straight win despite bottle attackDenmark’s Pedersen also suffers punctureMathieu van der Poel overcame a bottle thrown at his face, a puncture and a fierce challenge by the world champion, Tadej Pogacar, to claim his third straight victory in the Queen of the Classics.The debutant Pogacar, who was looking to become the first Tour de France winner to also prevail in the “Hell of the North” since Bernard Hinault in 1981, overcooked a turn and lost his balance on a cobbled section, leaving his rival clear one week after taming the Dutchman on the Tour of Flanders. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Mathieu van der Poel overcomes bottle in the face and Tadej Pogacar threat to win dramatic Paris

An idiotic fan threw a bottle in the face of Mathieu van der Poel but he still won Paris-Roubaix for the third straight year to deny world champion Tadej Pogacar

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3 w. ago Tadej Pogacar can win it all — but even he may be no match for Paris

The world champion is throwing everything on the line to cement his place in the history books

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