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Rebellin Returns For His 30th Pro Season Despite Leg Fracture

The start of Giro dell’Appennino delivered many eventful affairs, one of which is another comeback of David Rebellin. The Italian racer pulled through a crash at the Memorial Marco Pantani. The incident which occurred last September left him with a double fracture in his leg. Only after eight months after the crash, did the 50-year-old

Tim Merlier

Alpecin-Fenix Drops Tim Merlier For Tour de France 2022

Belgian cyclist, Tim Merlier, winner of a stage at Tour de France, will be absent from the screen in Tour de France of 2022. The 29 year old rider who has been a part of the UCI cycling team Alpecin-Fenix, alongside Mathieu van der Poel, will not be seen reappearing, as the team decided to

Katie Archibald Damaged Ligaments

Katie Archibald Yet Again Suffers Damaged Ligaments

As she made recovery from a broken collar bone, Katie Archibald has yet again suffered ligament damage as a result of being hit by a heedless car driver on Sunday. On Wednesday, the British star revealed that she was hit by a car when the driver failed to see her at the T-junction and made

Remco Wins Gullegem

Remco Evenepoel Shows Off His Skills With Gullegem Koerse Victory

Remco Evenepoel flaunted his skills with yet another amazing win, he soloed to victory at the Gullegem Koerse race. Although this race is not an official UCI-event, it was still packed with some of the best racers. This was the 78th edition of the 171km race and it had the best contestants, so say the

Chris Froome Delivers Amazing Performance

Froome Makes Headway With Best Performance In Last Years

Chris Froome celebrated the win of his teammate Jakob Fuglsang who charged mercilessly through the climb against Michael Woods along with David Gaudu. Woods came in second beating Gaudu in the line but this was not the only reason to celebrate. There were cheers at the one-day race because Chris Froome delivered his best performance

Jakob Fuglsang Wins Classic Alpes

Jakob Fuglsang Conquers Mercan’Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes With Solo Victory

Jakob Fuglsang just won the Classic Alpes-Maritimes race and this marks his first victory after joining Israel-Premier Tech. Fuglsang joined Israel-Premier Tech after leaving Team Astana last year, as this is his first official victory it only strengthens the relationship with his new team. The final climb of Col de Valberg was indeed hard but

Mikel Landa Switches Grand Tour

Mikel Landa Planning On Switching Grand Tour Agenda After Giro d’Italia

Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious) might have different plans for the summer as previously stated, this comes in after Landa returned to Giro d’Italia podium after seven years. He deems this year as a successful one, as he was able to celebrate his win without any kind of health problems or even recorded accidents. The last

Jai Hindley Wins Giro

Jai Hindley Rests Ghosts Of Past As He Wins 2022 Giro d’Italia

Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) just made history by winning the 2022 Giro d’Italia, this is the first Grand Tour win for him, his team and his country-Australia. His performance at this year’s edition is quite different than what we observed two years ago. Matteo Sobrero (BikeExchange-Jayco) won the time trial of the 21st stage but Hindley

Dries De Bondt Wins Stage 18 Giro

Miscalculation Or Luck? Dries De Bondt Wins Stage 18 Of Giro d’Italia

Dries De Bondt (Alpecin-Fenix) has won stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia in a shocking manner, was this luck or miscalculation? De Bondt was part of a breakaway group and the Peloton failed to calculate their true speed which led them furiously to the finish line.  The Peloton definitely tried their best here, but they

Emma Langley Wins Joe Martin

Emma Langley Conquers The Joe Martin Race With Astonishing Overall Title

In a stunning turn of events, Emma Langley (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB) has won the overall title of Joe Martin Stage Race thus securing the most important role. Apart from this, Maggie Coles-Lyster (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB) won the finale and thus the event, both the ladies put on one amazing show. The finale stage of Joe Martin Stage

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Giulio Ciccone Sweeps The Floor With Impressive Stage 15 Victory Of Giro d’Italia

Giulio Ciccone managed to conquer Cogne and take the stage 15 victory of Giro d’Italia. His final sprint on the bike launched aggressively that left the other rivals licking their wounds instead of following in Ciccone. It was surely an amazing day for both Team Trek-Segafredo and Ciccone. Surrounded with severe competition from Hugh Carthy

Romain Bardet Pulls Out Of Giro

Romain Bardet Pulls Out Of Giro d’Italia Following Illness

In a sad turn of affairs, Romain Bardet (Team DSM) will be pulling out from Giro d’Italia following an illness. He got inflicted with the illness in the previous stage to Genoa and because of this he halted right in the start of stage 13 which was till Cuneo. Team DSM made the following official

Johnny Clarke Winhs Joe Martin Race

Jonathan Clarke Conquers Stage 1 Of Joe Martin Stage Race With A Flashy Combo

Jonathan Clarke (Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling) managed to win stage 1 of the Walmart Joe Martin Stage Race with an amazing sprint. That is not all of the glory, his teammate Noah Granigan finished second and this increased the team’s rankings. The cyclists from Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling got to share the podium with Tyler

Biniam Girmay Giro

Biniam Girmay Feels Reborn As He Fights Criticism To Take Giro Stage Wins

Biniam Girmay became the talk of town when he joined Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert because of his impeccable skills. Now he faces criticism from every direction as he aims for a Giro sprint win. Girmay intends to face the second half of Giro with the same enthusiasm and courage he had in the first half. He aims to

Sir Willie

Meeting Sir Willie: Strava’s New FKD- The Fastest Known Dog

Pearl Izumi is one of the leading brands of Cycling Gear for both men and women and today they premiered their first “daschund’mentary,”. In this video series, they will be showing what is the main criteria of becoming Strava’s KFD- The Fastest Known Dog. All of that seems good enough, but what does it mean to

Sarah Gigante Euro Win

Sarah Gigante Conquers Makumeen Nafarroako While Donning Movistar Colors

Sarah Gigante joined Team Movistar to make a grand return to cycling, and it seems that she took her first major win while wearing the Movistar colors. Although Sarah joined way back in March, she has been making tremendous progress since then. With her impressive solo attack, Sarah Gigante earned her first European victory, and

Cavendish Wins Giro Stage

Mark Cavendish Wins Stage 3 Of Giro d’Italia

Mark Cavendish made his last appearance at the Giro nine years ago, that’s a lot of time but the Manxman has not lost his flare nor his incredible riding skills. Thanks to a thrilling finale, and a good command over his skills, Cavendish took his 16th stage victory at the Italian Grand Tour. His recent

Philippe Gilbert

Philippe Gilbert Breaks Down In Tears With First Win Since 2019

Philippe Gilbert made it very clear at the start of this cycling season that he will be retiring. Although he did say that he will be leaving this sport behind, it does not mean that he has lost the ability to win or even the desire to win. Gilbert is now 39, but he is

Cavendish Giro Prep And Expectations

Mark Cavendish Practices Both Caution and Optimism For Giro d’Italia: “Because I was winning early, people tend to forget that I had a punctured lung at the end of November”

Mark Cavendish will be leading Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl for the 2022 edition of Giro d’Italia, and the Manxman seems very confident about his upcoming performance. Needless to say, he has shown amazing form this season, bagging many impressive wins.  Although he seems prepared for the Giro, he also urged people to remember what happened to

Alpecin Fenix 2022 Giro Jersey

Alpecin-Fenix Showcases Special Jersey For Giro d’Italia 2022 Edition

The opening ceremony of Giro d’Italia saw thousands of fans circling at Heroes Plaza in Budapest, this was surely a sight to behold. The three days of opening will be starting from Wednesday onwards, and the event will end on May 29 in Verona. Ending the event on home soil surely seems a good idea

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Mark Cavendish To Lead Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl For Giro d’Italia

Mark Cavendish will be returning to the Giro d’Italia after a nine-year long absence, but this team he will be leading team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl for victory. The Manxman is more than qualified for this as he has won fifteen stages in the five times he participated in the Giro. Another commendable achievement was him

Simon Yates Asturias

Simon Yates To Warm Up For Giro d’Italia At Vuelta Asturias

Simon Yates will be participating in Giro d’Italia but before that, he will be testing out his skills and form at the Vuelta Asturias. This will be a three-day event in northern Spain and will start commencing on Friday, this will be a very good opportunity to ready each’s form before the Grand Tour. Yates

Rohan Dennis Tour De Romandie

Rohan Dennis Confident About Tour de Romandie Form

Rohan Dennis was so close to winning the prologue of Tour de Romandie, he was just four seconds behind and a podium spot away. Although he got the second place, he delivered a spectacular show of form and tactics which will be more than enough for the upcoming event. Dennis was busy chasing after the

Colbrelli Leisure Rides

Sonny Colbrelli To Get Back On His Bike As Health Improves

Sonny Colbrelli is making fast recovery after he suffered an unstable cardiac arrhythmia at the 2022 version of Volta a Catalunya. His condition is stable and he is also cleared for leisure rides and light physical activities. The cardiac arrest was very fatal and Sonny is very thankful for being alive, and for spending quality

Fabian Pro Team

Fabian Cancellara Partners With Tudor To Launch Pro Cycling Team In 2023

Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss former road racing cyclist has announced that he will be creating a Swiss Professional Cycling Team for 2023 in partnership with Tudor-the famous watch brand. This decision comes under an urgency as Cancellara said that there needs to be a pro cycling team that will represent Switzerland. Fabian will be the

Evenepoel Wins Liege

Remco Evenepoel Wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège In A Striking Finale

Remco Evenepoel achieved the biggest victory of his career by winning Liège-Bastogne-Liège. During the last 29km of the race, at the Côte de la Redoute he soloed to victory. As for the finale, this was a daring route, and the final climb required riders to mount their attacks carefully. During the last stretch, Evenepoel dashed

Pinot Victory

Thibaut Pinot Wins Stage 5 Of Tour Of The Alps In Daring Finale

After three years, Thibaut Pinot got to taste victory, and that too at the Tour of Alps. It was him and David de la Cruz in the daring finale and the Frenchman outsprinted David with extreme tactics and thrilling performance. Stage 5 of the Tour of the Alps was a wholesome celebration of French cycling-two

Wout Van Aert

Wout Van Aert Unsure About Winning Liège-Bastogne-Liège With Post COVID-19 Debut

Wout Van Aert will be making his debut at the Liège-Bastogne-Liège after recovering from COVID-19. This appearance in the oldest Classic is the result of his season being unexpectedly disrupted because of COVID-19. Due to this disruption, he missed out on the Amstel Gold Race and Tour of Flanders. Fortunately, not everything seems gloomy as

Thibaut Pinot

Thibaut Pinot Left Broken After Unexpected Tour of Alps Defeat

While the Tour of Alps 2022 created some marvelous winners, it even left some really good racers heartbroken, one of those is Thibaut Pinot. He was so close to victory, so close to securing that beautiful win but his dreams were shattered by Miguel Angel Lopez. The clash between the two racers happened at the

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Mathieu Van Der Poel Hints At Changing Racing Style Ahead Of Giro d’Italia

Each racing style has its own limitations, Mathieu Van Der Poel has admitted that. He has hinted at changing his racing style as these aggressive attacks could have cost him some victories. A good example is his attack at last year’s Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. Mathieu Van Der Poel makes racing exciting again, and we got to see

Pello Bilbao

Pello Bilbao Wins Stage 2 Of The Tour of the Alps

Pello Bilbao achieved victory in stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps, after his amazing win, his rank increased to the overall race lead. Bilbao was leading the charge for Team Bahrain Victorious, and his victory was achieved through amazing teamwork, he could not have achieved this without the help of his three surviving

Bradley Wiggins Interview

Bradley Wiggins Reveals He Was Sexually Harassed At A Very Young Age

Bradley Wiggins, the Tour De France, and Olympic Champion has revealed that he was sexually harassed by his coach when he was a teenager. He explained all of this in an interview with Men’s Health UK, apart from this, he also opened up about other issues he faced. Wiggins said in the interview: I was

Van Der Poel Paris Roubaix Giro

Mathieu Van Der Poel Aims To Recover Lost Time At Giro d’Italia

Sometimes it feels very impossible to believe that Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) has only been riding for nine days this year. In those amazing nine days, Van Der Poel won the Tour of Flanders for the second time and even had a podium spot at Milan-San Remo, these are amazing achievements. Now, Van Der

Dylan Van Baarle Paris Roubaix

Dylan van Baarle Conquers Paris-Roubaix In A Thrilling Finale

Dylan van Baarle won Paris-Roubaix after an amazing yet thrilling finale, his performance during the last 18km of the race and the way he handled himself on the cobbles of Camphin-en-Pévèle stood out. Dylan got to share the podium with Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ). This victory is well-sought, after Dylan’s solo

Sonny Colbrelli Reflects Back

Sonny Colbrelli Reflects On His Legacy, Feels Happy To Be Alive

Sonny Colbrelli from Team Bahrain-Victorious will be watching this year’s Paris-Roubaix from the comfort of his home, this is an event that he won back in 2021. Colbrelli is an accomplished rider and one of the strongest assets that Bahrain-Victorious has, but after he had a heart attack at the Volta Catalunya, his life changed

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Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Planning An Aggressive Approach For Paris-Roubaix

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl will be heading to the Queen of the Classics, Paris-Roubaix now as their season schedule advances. This past month has been nothing but miserable and a failure of sorts as none of their riders got a podium spot for any of the events they participated in. Was there a mistake with their

Fran Giro Di Sicilia Win

Fran Miholjević Wins Stage 3 Of Giro di Sicilia In A Thrilling Finale

Fran Miholjević won stage 3 of Giro di Sicilia with a breathtaking performance, his solo ride was nothing but commendable. The final kilometers of the event in Caltagirone were really intense, and when the dust cleared, the Croatian could not believe that he won the stage. He put behind Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) for the

Magnus Sheffield Win

Magnus Sheffield Soloed To Historic Win At Brabantse Pijl

Magnus Sheffield made history today for himself and Ineos Grenadiers as he made his solo victory at Brabantse Pijl. Just a little before his 20th birthday, he made a big name in the one-day race event. He was part of a seven-man group and decided to attack head-on during the last 3.5km to go. The

Vincenzo Nibali Giro Form

Vincenzo Nibali Doubts His Form Ahead Of Giro di Sicilia

Ever since joining Team Astana Qazaqstan, Vincenzo Nibali has had a lot of goals and ambitions. After all, he performed really well during his tenure with Trek-Segafredo. Now Vincenzo has returned home and he plans to make a difference. Vincenzo is slated to ride the Giro d’Italia next month but he will not be alone,

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Pierre Latour Drops Out Of Itzulia Basque Country Following Stage 4 Crash

Pierre Latour (Team TotalEnergies) started stage 4 of Itzulia Basque Country with big ambitions even though he was at the overall ninth position. The stage was sprawling with a total distance of 185.6 kilometers from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Zamudio. A high-speed crash on the descent of a hill killed all the ambitions of the French Rider.

Dani Martinez

Dani Martinez Conquers Itzulia Basque Country With An Impressive Stage 4 Win

With his spectacular uphill sprint, Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers) won stage 4 of Itzulia Basque Country. It was a strategic win, during his ride, the Colombian carefully planned this approach.  It was surely a daring effort as Dani Martinez had to hold off World Champion Julian Alaphilippe (Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl) alongside Diego Ulissi (UAE Team

Peter Sagan Drops Out

Peter Sagan Drops Out Circuit de la Sarthe Following Mysterious Pain

During stage 2 of the Circuit de la Sarthe, Peter Sagan abandoned the race. The reason for this remains clouded in mystery as no one knows why this happened. When the last 40 kilometers remained, Peter Sagan opted out of the race, this allowed Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën) to gain the

Julian Itzulia Basque

Julian Alaphilippe Dashes To The Stage 2 Win At Itzulia Basque Country

It might have taken some time but Julian Alaphilippe has finally claimed an amazing win in 2022, that too in his 2021 Rainbow Jersey. When the time finally came for Itzulia Basque Country, he stormed for the stage 2 victory and that was a true spectacle. His performance was amazing, he swept the floor and

Lotte Kopecky

Belgium Goes Crazy For Kopecky As She Rises To Fame After Strade Bianche

Dreams turn into goals from a very young age, and Lotte Kopecky’s situation is the same. Since she was just a teenager she used to go crazy after her two heroes from the sports world, Tom Boonen and Fabian Cancellara. Although they were rivals, they were celebrities in the eyes of the world and were

Israel Tech Tour Of Flanders

Israel-Premier Tech Drops Out Of Tour of Flanders Due To COVID-19 And Illness

Israel-Premier Tech will not be participating in the Tour of Flanders due to multiple cases of COVID-19 and injuries. In light of these events, they have announced that they will not be participating in the upcoming event. On Friday, the team considered that almost everyone might have come into contact with the two team members

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Tadej Pogacar Bears The Cost Of Inexperience At Dwars door Vlaanderen

Since Tadej Pogacar arrived in Belgium for the Spring Cobbled Classics, his recon of the tracks was for the lay of the land in the ultimate preparation for Dwars door Vlaanderen. The training was going well and he even met with Allan Peiper so that he gets all the insight he needs. A little insight

Egan Bernal Back

Egan Bernal Back On The Bike As Recovery Continues

Egan Bernal is finally back on his back as he returns to riding on the road, this is great news as he is still recovering from the horrific accident he suffered almost two months ago. Now that he is getting back his form, he went on to social media to celebrate this important landmark in

Lawson Craddock

Lawson Craddock Out Of E3 Saxo Bank Classic Due To A Pre-Race Freak Accident

BikeExchange-Jayco has enjoyed a great cycling season this year, let’s take Simon Yates as an example when he achieved the overall second position at Paris-Nice. Hopes and preparations were very high for E3 Saxo Bank Classic, but the team experienced a freak event when Lawson Craddock crashed pre-race and had to abandon the event. Shortly

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João Almeida Soars Through Volta a Catalunya Taking The Stage 4 Victory

João Almeida from UAE Team Emirates conquered Volta a Catalunya and won stage 4 of the event. The competition was really fierce as he beat Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) and Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe) to the pedal. The sprint was indeed very fierce as the stage concluded above the Boí Taüll snowline. The winning trio got away

Mark Cavendish Flemish Classics

Mark Cavendish To Lead The Charge For Classic Brugge-De Panne

In an exciting turn of events, Mark Cavendish will be leading his team Quick-Step AlphaVinyl into the Flemish Classics this coming Wednesday. What will be the role of the Manxman though? He will be the team’s protected Sprinter for Classic Brugge-De Panne. This is indeed exciting, as he was not asked for Milan-San Remo, seems

Colbrelli Collapsed

Sonny Colbrelli Admitted To The Hospital After Collapsing At Volta a Catalunya

The opening day of Volta a Catalunya saw some disastrous scenes unfold as Sonny Colbrelli (Bahrain Victorious) was hospitalized after collapsing during the stage 1 sprint. He then received emergency medical care after the finish line in Saint Feliu de Guixols. This happened immediately after Michael Matthews won the stage, but all of the attention

Marc Hirschi

Marc Hirschi Conquers Per Sempre Alfredo With A Beautiful Solo Victory

Marc Hirschi got an amazing start to his 2022 cycling season with a beautiful victory at Per Sempre Alfredo. The Swiss rider conquered the challenging one-day hilly race without any kind of problems, his performance was surely a sight to behold! Hirschi got to share the podium with Dion Smith (BikeExchange-Jayco) and Remy Mertz (Bingoal-Pauwels

Matej Mohoric

Matej Mohoric Conquers Milan-San Remo With A Thrilling Poggio Descent

Milan-San Remo was hyped before it even started, from months we were hearing about how the event would unfold, how some big-time cyclists will be making a comeback for the event, and now the event is finally here and we also have our first victory.  Matej Mohoric just made history as he won the Milan-San