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  • Paris-Nice Preview

    Another Roglic-Remco early season face-off after Catalunya last year. Stage One took place yesterday, and Stage Two is currently going on. I won’t spoil what happened yet, but I’ll preview the remaining stages. Stage Three is a 27km Team Time Trial with a few small hills. They won’t affect the outcome, this is all about…

  • Strade Bianche Preview

    This is quite possibly the most beautiful race on the entire calendar and also one of the newest (this will be the 18th edition). The race is 215 kilometers from Siena to Siena with 3,669 meters of elevation gain, but critically, 15 gravel sectors with steep uphills and downhills. The name of the race literally…

  • Weekly Recap

    It was another jam-packed week with a WorldTour stage race and a season opener for one of the Big Four. This will be brief due to its tardiness and the imperative of getting Strade Bianchi, Paris-Nice, and Tirreno-Adriatico previews up in short order. In the UAE Tour, there were four pan-flat sprint stages, three won…

  • February Preview

    *All schedule information, as always, courtesy of ProCyclingStats.com. The shortest month of the year is absolutely packed with cycling. Most of the professional racing in February will take place in warmer climates like Spain, Portugal, Southern France, and the Middle East. There are too many races to preview each with the detail that most deserve,…

  • Challenge Mallorca Recap

    A series of five consecutive one-day races on the Spanish island of Mallorca sort-of kicked off the European cycling season (Spain hosted a few one-day races before Mallorca, won by Dylan Groenewegen and Michael Matthews, respectively). The first race of the series, called Trofeo Calvia, took place on January 24. This race was 150 kilometers…

  • Mathieu van der Poel in 2024

    The best Classics rider in the world had a spectacular, if not prolific, 2023 season. What can he do to back that up in 2024? Currently, MVDP is absolutely laying waste to the competition in the Cyclocross world, so far having won 11 out of 12 races, and the only defeat was the result of…