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Who are the new national time trial champions?

Who are the new national time trial champions?

The riders who have earned themselves a new jersey to wear during individual time trials for the next year

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Giro d’Italia Donne 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders

Giro d’Italia Donne 2022 - Route, Predictions and Contenders

With a promise of big prize purses and live TV coverage, we should see the Giro d’Italia Donne take a big step forward in professionalism...

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The hardest climbs of the Tour de France 2022

The hardest climbs of the Tour de France 2022

The decisive mountains that could decide who takes home the yellow jersey in the biggest stage race of the year

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Inside the team car with Le Col-Wahoo on race day

Inside the team car with Le Col-Wahoo on race day

Rouleur sat in the passenger seat of the Le Col-Wahoo team car during stage one of the Women's Tour and got a true insight in to...

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New chapter for the Women’s Tour: live coverage, a mountain top finish and a stellar field

New chapter for the Women’s Tour: live coverage, a mountain top finish and a stellar field

The six-day women’s WorldTour race is bigger and better in 2022, and we’ll be able to watch it in real time

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Giro d’Italia 2022 team performances – The best and the worst

Giro d’Italia 2022 team performances – The best and the worst

Who will be leaving La Corsa Rosa smiling and who needs to go back to the drawing board?

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Opinion: ¡Vamos Juanpe! Juan Pedro López's spirited maglia rosa defence has been a highlight of the Giro

Opinion: ¡Vamos Juanpe! Juan Pedro López's spirited maglia rosa defence has been a highlight of the Giro

Few expected the fresh-faced Spaniard to still be in pink after the savage Blockhaus finish, but ‘Juanpe’ is surprising everyone, including himself

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Team SD Worx: The Inside Story

Team SD Worx: The Inside Story

How did the number one Women’s WorldTeam rise to the top of the sport and stay there? Team-building, rider mentoring, managing egos and keeping a...

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The Giro d’Italia 2022: Mark Cavendish’s best sprint ever?

The Giro d’Italia 2022: Mark Cavendish’s best sprint ever?

A long, dominating sprint proved that the Manxman is showing no signs of slowing down

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755 bidons per rider per year: How to solve cycling’s water bottle problem

755 bidons per rider per year: How to solve cycling’s water bottle problem

Aiming to minimise its environmental impact, Cannondale has created compostable water bottles to be used by its professional teams this season

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Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s guide to getting through Covid-19

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s guide to getting through Covid-19

The Danish rider tested positive for coronavirus a few days after the Tour of Flanders and was forced to miss the Ardennes Classics that followed....

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La Flèche Wallonne Femmes Debrief: Marta Cavalli’s clever mastery of the Mur de Huy

La Flèche Wallonne Femmes Debrief: Marta Cavalli’s clever mastery of the Mur de Huy

Calm and composed, the FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope rider dissected the race’s key climb in a clinical fashion

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Paris-Roubaix 2022 in Images

Paris-Roubaix 2022 in Images

Photos tell the story of the fastest ever edition of Paris-Roubaix, won by Dylan van Baarle ahead of Wout van Aert and Stefan Küng

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Faces of a Paris-Roubaix finish

Faces of a Paris-Roubaix finish

Dust-stained and exhausted; the extraordinary toil of making it through Hell to the Roubaix Velodrome is written on the faces of the finishers of Paris-Roubaix

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Opinion: Paris-Roubaix has changed, and Ineos Grenadiers were ready for it

Opinion: Paris-Roubaix has changed, and Ineos Grenadiers were ready for it

The British team split the race with over 200km remaining in a rejection of the event's usual formula

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Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022 in Images

Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022 in Images

A selection of the best photos from a dramatic day of racing

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“Crashing left, right and centre, it was madness” Tales of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes debutants

“Crashing left, right and centre, it was madness” Tales of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes debutants

The cobbles of Roubaix are rough for everyone, but are even harder when you’re still a neo-pro

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Paris-Roubaix Femmes Debrief: the tough head and brave heart of Elisa Longo Borghini

Paris-Roubaix Femmes Debrief: the tough head and brave heart of Elisa Longo Borghini

The Italian Champion took an impressive win in Paris-Roubaix Femmes through attacking and instinctive racing

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Filippo Ganna: a Paris-Roubaix winner?

Filippo Ganna: a Paris-Roubaix winner?

He's been training on the velodrome in the weeks leading up to the race, and is yet to do a cobbled Classic this year, but...

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“I'm not a nice person in the bunch” – Lucinda Brand on the battle for Paris-Roubaix Femmes

“I'm not a nice person in the bunch” – Lucinda Brand on the battle for Paris-Roubaix Femmes

The Trek-Segafredo missed the inaugural edition of the race in 2021, but she doesn’t expect this to hinder her chances this Saturday

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Seven riders to watch at Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022

Seven riders to watch at Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2022

With the defending champion not taking to the start, it's wide open for a new winner in the Hell of the North

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How can we create a sustainable future for women’s cycling?

How can we create a sustainable future for women’s cycling?

AG Insurance-NXTG’s new three-tier model is the first of its kind in the women’s peloton; manager Natascha Knaven says it has the potential to revolutionise the...

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The Tour of Flanders wasn't hard enough for Annemiek van Vleuten

The Tour of Flanders wasn't hard enough for Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek van Vleuten was left frustrated that De Ronde wasn’t more difficult as Team SD Worx showed how tactics can prevail over strength

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“I can’t really speak, I’m so tired. I think I need some food” Fred Wright’s top-10 in the Tour of Flanders

“I can’t really speak, I’m so tired. I think I need some food” Fred Wright’s top-10 in the Tour of Flanders

He wasn’t in many pre-race previews, and didn’t have the best odds, but the British rider found himself in the lead group at De Ronde....

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Tour of Flanders Debrief: Lotte Kopecky’s Flandrian Fairytale

Tour of Flanders Debrief: Lotte Kopecky’s Flandrian Fairytale

The Belgian champion won De Ronde van Vlaanderen after an exemplary team display from SD Worx; cycling rarely sees such a perfect ending

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Elisa Balsamo: Back in Flanders as the world champion and ready to fight for victory

Elisa Balsamo: Back in Flanders as the world champion and ready to fight for victory

The young Italian has won the last three rounds of the women’s WorldTour but still is admirably modest ahead of De Ronde

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Tom Pidcock: "No place for caution" at the Tour of Flanders

Tom Pidcock: "No place for caution" at the Tour of Flanders

Ineos Grenadiers' young squad have proved themselves as contenders for the Classics. Could their leader, Tom Pidcock, bring home a win in De Ronde Van Vlaanderen?

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Lotte Kopecky – Bearing the weight of expectation at the Tour of Flanders

Lotte Kopecky – Bearing the weight of expectation at the Tour of Flanders

The 26-year-old Lotte Kopecky goes in to the Tour of Flanders as the home favourite and has had to learn how to cope with the...

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Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Women Preview – Route, predictions and contenders

Tour of Flanders 2022 Elite Women Preview – Route, predictions and contenders

With the Koppenberg included in the route for the first time, it’s going to be an exciting race for the women’s peloton

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From the cobbles to the classroom – Flora Perkins on balancing racing and school as a neo-pro

From the cobbles to the classroom – Flora Perkins on balancing racing and school as a neo-pro

Riding for Le Col-Wahoo in 2022, the British rider impressed in her first race and looks forward to a big year ahead. Once her A-levels...

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