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  • 2025 Tour de France Preview

    It’s almost that time of year again. The 112th Tour de France commences July 5 in Lille. With the final team (INEOS Grenadiers) releasing its squad for this year’s edition, the start list is complete and it’s time to publish this piece. I’ll start by previewing each stage and picking a winner for each one,…

  • 2025 Liege-Bastogne-Liege Preview

    The final Spring Classic on the calendar, the end of Ardennes Week, the fourth Monument of the season, La Doyenne (The Old Lady, named as such because it is the oldest of the five Monuments), the 111th Liege-Bastogne-Liege is, more or less like every year, a hard 252-kilometer extremely hilly battle in Wallonia (the French-speaking…

  • Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Preview

    The third of the Big Seven one-week stage races gets going tomorrow, March 24. This is the Tour of Catalonia, an ancient race that takes in the beauty of one of Spain’s most famous provinces. This should be a great race. Let’s discuss the route first, according to ProCyclingStats.com: Stage One: Sant Feliu de Guixols-Sant…

  • UAE Tour Preview

    The final race in the Middle East for 2025 is the highest-level. The The Seventh UAE Tour takes place from February 17-23. This race is a seven-stage WorldTour event, the second of 2025. The route is more or less the same every year, with four flat sprint stages (echelons possible), a flat time trial, an…

  • Tour Down Under Preview

    The first race of 2025 kicks off in Australia on Tuesday, January 21. This will be a brief preview because this race simply is not great. Why? South Australia does not exactly have big mountains to create an enthralling parcours (and the race has not utilized all of the hills available), the race isn’t very…

  • Pavel Sivakov Racing and Training Power Analysis 2024

    Pavel Sivakov is a professional cyclist riding for UAE Team Emirates, currently on a three-year contract that began in 2024 and will conclude at the end of 2026. Sivakov is one of Tadej Pogacar’s top domestiques and, in addition to a stellar performance at the Tour de France, was instrumental in Pogi’s fourth Il Lombardia…

  • A Half-Announcement

    This cycling off-season, less than two months old, is already drawing out our collective agony to a place that was almost unfathomable on October 12, when Tadej Pogacar mastered Il Lombardia for the fourth consecutive year and all was (mostly) well in the world. But since that day, there has been an impending sense of…

  • Tadej Pogacar 2025 Program

    I’m going to offer a slightly different take on what I think Pogi should aim for next year. But I have already changed my mind significantly from when I tweeted just three days ago. The like to that post can be found here. Here’s what I now think he ought to do next year: Strade…

  • Jonas Vingegaard 2025 Program

    With all of the big riders done racing for the year, and just a few races remaining on the calendar in 2024 (mostly in Asia), I’m ready to start thinking about what those riders’ schedules will look like in 2025. I have just written a piece reviewing Pogi’s 2024 rampage, so I’ll start this series…

  • Stages 12&13

    The Tour de France rolls on, and waits for nobody. Stage Twelve: A high-powered four-man breakaway consisting of Jonas Abrahamsen, Valentin Madouas, Anthony Turgis, and Quentin Pacher escaped after a scuffle, but because of their strength and the nervous peloton, a few sprint teams including Alpecin and Movistar kept them under two minutes in front.…