Tag: Cycling
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Tour Down Under Preview
The 2024 World Tour season kicks off on Tuesday, January 16 in Australia with the 24th Tour Down Under. This is a six-day stage race that takes place exclusively in the hills around Adelaide, South Australia. The field for stage wins and the GC is wide-open, but let’s examine the parcours before running through the…
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Vuelta a Espana 2024 Route Announced
The third Grand Tour of the season revealed its route for next year’s edition yesterday. I do not get too excited about the least prestigious Grand Tour’s stage profiles eight months before the start, but it is comforting to see that the race should be at least as exciting as recent Vueltas have been. The…
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2023 La Flèche Wallonne Preview
What better first race preview for Puncheur to feature than the ultimate puncheur‘s race, La Fleche Wallonne. It’s the midweek classic (and thus least prestigious) within the legendary Ardennes Week. Widely known as a 3-minute watts-per-kilogram test up the steep Mur de Huy, Fleche actually packs over 3,000 meters of elevation gain (and three ascents…
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