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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,…
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Amstel Gold Race Preview
The biggest race in the Netherlands is a one-day race at sub-Monument level, but Monument distance. Amstel Gold Race is 255.9 kilometers with 3,200 meters of elevation gain in 30+bergs. As the opening skirmish of Ardennes week, it used to be a race more for Classics specialists and puncheurs, but as the racing has gotten…
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Ronde van Vlaanderen Preview
It’s that time of year again: Flanders’ Holy Week is upon us. The best race of the year; the 2025 Tour of Flanders takes place on Sunday, April 6 from Bruges to Oudenaarde. The second Momument every year, Flanders is perhaps the biggest one-day race on the calendar (and according to me, the most prestigious…
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Milano-Sanremo Preview
It is time for La Classicissima di Primavera, the first Monument of 2025, Milano-Sanremo. The 289-kilometer (longest UCI event on the calendar) race takes place Saturday, March 22 because the extremely pious staunchly Catholic nation of Italy observes Mass on Sunday (all non-Italian major classics take place on Sundays). This is arguably the most important…
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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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Catalunya Recap
He was rampaging. Stage One: UAE Controlled the race with an iron fist, neutralizing the breakaway way before the final climb. But their riders were dropping like flies off of the front of the peloton. Soon, it was only Marc Soler left for the descent and lightly rolling run-in to the uphill finish. He did…
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MSR Recap
The fastest Milano-Sanremo in history did not let us down regarding action, though the result wasn’t what this not impartial observer hoped for. I cannot say much that hasn’t been said already, but I’ll try to offer some unique takes here. But first let’s dig into the play-by-play. The race did not go quite as…
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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”.…
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