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  • Remco Evenepoel 2025 Program

    Tour Down Under, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milano-Sanremo, E3 Saxo Classic, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Criterium du Dauphine, Tour de France, Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec, Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal, World Championship Time Trial, World Championship Road Race, Il Lombardia It’s a loaded schedule, but with one Grand Tour, he has lots of chances for one-day races.…

  • 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…

  • THE PYRENEES

    A dream I don’t want to wake from. At the same time, I’m still in shock. Today is the second rest day of the 2024 Tour de France, and I feel like I need it just as much as the riders do, except the guy who didn’t seem tired after yesterday’s race (he won it).…

  • Surprise and/or Late Entrants in the Tour de France

    I threw up my preview a few days before every team had finished confirming their lineups for the biggest race in the world. So I’ll run through some names that are now in for better or worse. Lenny Martinez: The 20-year-old Frenchman has won five races this year, mostly farming on the French Cup circuit,…

  • Giro d’Italia Preview

    Welp, it’s time. The 2024 Giro kicks off on tomorrow Saturday, May 4 from Venaria Reale. This preview will differ from my normal Grand Tour Preview template, because I will not be bothering to preview the sprinters or breakaway artists. But I will mention the GC contenders, dissect the profile of every stage, give my…

  • Ardennes Roundup

    Sadly, I was too busy to give these races the attention they deserved. I did not preview Fleche Wallonne nor Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but I will recap all three Ardennes races in this essay. The Amstel Gold Race was won by Tom Pidcock with Mathieu van der Poel not having his best legs. That’s to take nothing…

  • Ronde van Vlaanderen Recap

    We should have known better. There isn’t much anybody (non-Pogacar) can do when Mathieu van der Poel is on this kind of form, especially on this course. Despite a flurry of attacks and crazy action from 110 kilometers out to 45 kilometers out, the end result, at least at the top step of the podium,…

  • Milano-Sanremo Preview

    Every year, it’s the first Monument on the calendar. The 115th Milano-Sanremo is Saturday, March 16. Before we dive into this year’s edition, here’s a question for both casual and hardcore cycling fans: What is a Monument? Well one answer, as Patrick Broe of the Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast put it, is “I don’t know”.…

  • Weekly Recap

    Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico took place this week. Paris-Nice was the more interesting of the two with a showdown between Remco and Roglic and a host of other top up-and-comers in the race. It also had a better parcours than Tirreno, which was a one-horse race with Jonas in the ranks. Unfortunately, I never got around…