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Giro shorts: Stage 2 review
Stage 2: Herning to Herning, 206km Stage profile: Herning to Herning, 206km in a loop around the coast with a final circuit in Herning before a sprinter’s finish. Top three: 1. Mark Cavendish (Sky), 2....
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Giro shorts: Stage 13 review
Stage 13 - Savona to Cervere, 121km Stage profile: The first 30km or so of this short stage are uncomfortably steep for the sprinters, but thereafter it should all come back together for a bunch...
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Men’s Olympic road race: round-table
Saturday’s men’s Olympic road race ended in disappointment for the hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route hoping for a Mark Cavendish victory. But a bold late attack did provide a fairy-tale...
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World Ports Classic review
The King of Belgium, Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) reigned supreme in this inaugural two-day race. He powered to victory on the first stage after omnipresent coastal winds had split the peloton...
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Tour de Suisse review
This year’s Tour de Suisse had some weather problems (snow curtailing stage two, inflatable banners coming down), some worrying crashes (one Tour contender and an IAM cat) and some magnificent racing....
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TdF stage 1: Kittel conquers as coach chaos causes carnage
Stage 1: Porto-Vecchio to Bastia, 212km Marcel Kittel took his first career Tour victory ahead of Alexander Kristoff and 19-year-old Danny van Poppel as the Tour de France visited Corsica for the first...
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What’s happening in July?
July is, of course, dominated by the 100th Tour de France. But what else is happening this month? Plenty. Let’s take a look, shall we? Races The Tour de France straddles July like a colossus in any...
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Happy birthday Philippe Gilbert and Alexander Kristoff
Today’s lumpy stage profile offers potential winning opportunities for both hard-working sprinters and classics men alike, including a pair of birthday boys who fall into each category. BMC’s Philippe...
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Vattenfall Cyclassics review: Double Deutsch
John Degenkolb held off the charge of his compatriot, German national champion Andre Greipel, by a bike length to record the first home win in Germany’s only WorldTour event since Erik Zabel in 2001....
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Tour of Oman review: Froome doubles up
Chris Froome got his 2014 campaign off to a winning start in Oman, defending his crown from last year. He won atop Green Mountain on stage five, opening up an unassailable advantage over nearest rivals...
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Milan – San Remo review: Kristoff sprints to glory
It was a day to remember for Katusha’s Alexander Kristoff, who took the biggest win of his career in a rain-soaked Milan-San Remo. Despite a frantic final few kilometres, no one managed to stay away...
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Tweets of the Week: Monuments Man, rainy SanRemo and helmet hell
Where do I begin? To tell the story of how great a race can be? There were so many stories within stories at Milan-SanRemo – from the weather (one rider peed on his own hands in an attempt to get them...
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Gent–Wevelgem preview
Following hot on the heels of Peter Sagan’s win at E3 Harelbeke is Sunday’s Gent-Wevelgem. It’s one of the cobbled classics more conducive to sprint finishes, meaning the Slovakian heads in with a...
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AntBanter! March Rider of the Month
For saying March is a month that carries the optimism of spring, we cycling fans seem to like it brutal and gritty don’t we? There may not have been any ice-encrusted riders this year, but we had the...
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Tour stage 6: Champagne flows as Greipel grabs his first win
Andre Greipel broke his Tour de France duck with a strong sprint to take the win in Reims. A chaotic run-in saw Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano) puncture, and the sprinters chase down a late bid for glory...
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Tour preview: Stage 11
The first day back in the saddle after the rest day is likely to be hard work as this stage is more than a little undulating. The peloton will cover 140km of energy-sapping rollers before they reach...
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Tour stage 12: Kristoff wins scorching sprint
Alexander Kristoff furthered his sprint credentials with his first ever grand tour victory on a scorching stage to Saint-Étienne, pipping Peter Sagan and Arnaud Demare to the line. Melting tarmac and...
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Tour stage 15: Kristoff doubles up on a day of Mistral and misses
In a dramatic finale, the disjointed bunch sprint headed by Alexander Kristoff swept up the day’s breakaway metres from the line, snatching the win from under the nose of Jack Bauer. Despite the...
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Tour Stage 19: Navardauskas breaks Garmin’s duck, Sagan still winless
This was supposed to be a routine flat stage, a pause for breath between Pyrenean pain and the long time trial tomorrow. Instead we had rain making the peloton’s life miserable, a perfectly executed,...
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Tour Stage 21: Nibali’s Shark de Triomphe
In a repeat of last year, Marcel Kittel took victory in Paris, bookending this year’s Tour in the same way he did in the previous edition. He flicked on the afterburners to storm past Alexander...
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