If the recent Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes is anything to go by, three of the five stages of the Tour de Suisse, which starts on Wednesday, will be dominated by breakaways. That’s right, five stages and not the traditional eight. Organisers have reduced the time and distance…
So far, 2026 has not been a banner year for the best cycling team in the world, UAE Team Emirates–XRG. Yes, they lead the UCI’s technical rankings with 15,059 points, but Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe and Visma–Lease a Bike are close behind. And while the team has…
There was never any doubt that Tadej Pogačar would win the Tour de Romandie, which ended on Sunday. The only mystery was why he was racing in it. All I can think of is that the organizers must have paid him and his UAE Team…
Two riders dominated the men’s spring season, and neither one was named Remco Evenepoel or Jonas Vingegaard. One was, of course, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG), who is the focus of cycling conversations after every season, usually in sentences that begin or end with the…
