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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…
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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…
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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…
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Weekly Recap
Mads Pedersen is on a farming spree this year, Remco did a Remco, a new UAE Team Emirates superstar? And much more. I don’t even know the word for the number of races that took place this week (there were six at .1 level or higher on the men’s side on Saturday alone plus the…
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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…
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Tour Down Under Recap
This race delivered some surprises and a surprising level of excitement. Disclaimer: I watched none of the stages live due to the race taking place in Australia, which is in a very different time zone to the one I live in. Thanks to NBC’s YouTube channel, I was able to watch the extended highlights of…
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