Fred Wright: ‘Maybe I’ll give the bunch sprint a go in Paris’

Coming just a few days before the Tour of Flanders, Dwars door Vlaanderen is the final opportunity that riders will get to test their legs before the second Monument of the season. The race takes place on the March 29 and its position in the calendar means that while sometimes Dwars door Vlaanderen attracts a strong field of riders who want to get…

The final international races of the Australian summer of racing are set to play out at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race this weekend in Geelong, with the 143km Deakin University Elite Women's Road Race first on Saturday and then the 176km men's race on Sunday. It's been a January of triumph for some and missed opportunity for others, but this…

He has already written himself into the history books, but Biniam Girmay has barely finished his first chapter Words Andy McGrath Photography Mike Massaro The beatific smile on the face of Biniam Girmay as he crossed the finish line to win at Wevelgem and Jesi were the moments of the cycling year. So much had precipitated those wins, so many…

A clash with his wedding means the newly crowned world champion will not show off his rainbow bands in the final Monument of the season. Fresh from scooping a famous Vuelta-Worlds double, Remco Evenepoel is not willing to change the date of his nuptials to add a second Monument win to his swelling palmares this year, the Belgian having won…

In the first two installments of Nibali Week, I tried to regurgitate the early stages of Vincenzo Nibali's fascinating career. Maybe it was a bit too much "and then THIS happened!", but with Nibali, it's important to set the context for his crowning achievements if we are to truly celebrate his life's work.

For the first time ever, the women's peloton have the opportunity to race the Tour de Romandie in 2022. Taking place from the 7th to the 9th of October, the race spans three stages, with the standout spectacle being on stage two, when the peloton will climb to the summit of Thyon 2000. On either side of this mountain day, there are two rolling…

Ahead of the 2022 UCI Road World Championships, Cyclingnews is taking a deep dive into the key teams for the elite road races. Next up: Great Britain. The most recent British winner at the elite World Championships was Lizzie Deignan in 2015. She has been the squad's reliable performer over the last decade, also finishing fourth in 2016 and sixth…

Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when you join Outside+ . Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) finished her stint in the rainbow jersey in perfect style with a dominant win on the Paseo del Prado in Madrid on the final stage of the Ceratizit…

When BikeExchange-Jayco crossed the finish line in the stage 1 team time trial at the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta the squad had shaved more than a minute off the best time and took the hot seat. In the end, only Trek-Segafredo could beat the Australian team's time, finishing six seconds faster to win the stage. "I was really surprised by how…

The fifth stage of the Vuelta a Espana saw a tough battle for the stage win, a day for the breakaway where a large group went up the road and had fights for both stage win and GC lead. Marc Soler attacked in the final climb and went solo off the front, to hold off the chasing group just barely into Bilbao. Daryl Impey sprinted to second place…

In a Tour de France stage with parcours which could fall in favour of a breakaway, getting into the move of the day becomes a true type of art form. While the finish is, of course, always the most exciting part of a stage, the opening kilometres which riders spend fighting for a precious spot in the break can often be just as riveting to watch. One…

Two years ago, a 21-year-old Slovenian named Tadej Pogacar pulled off one of the most dramatic upsets in the history of the Tour de France. With just one competitive stage left and race leader Primoz Roglic ahead by almost a minute, Pogacar put in the time trial of his life to become the youngest Tour de France winner in more than 100 years. That…

Elisa Longo Borghini has never been known as much of a sprinter. The Italian national champion is one of the women's peloton's best riders and has taken victories at some of the most prestigious races. Her sprint, however, has been widely regarded as somewhat lacking. The 30-year-old even jokes about it herself, tweeting earlier this week after she…

Cycling 04:42:06 Redemption for Yates, after what has been a disappointing Giro by his original expectations. Jai Hindley beats Richard Carapaz to second, claiming a few precious seconds on his rival who comes home to become the new maglia rosa. What a day we've had. Cycling Cavendish joins Astana Qazaqstan for 2023 season 7 HOURS AGO Vincenzo…

As far as winners go, there were no surprises in the men's and women's editions of Omloop het Nieuwsblad. Pre-race favourites, Wout van Aert and Annemiek van Vleuten, reigned victorious. However, despite the predictability of the rider on the top step of the podium, the manner in which each of them raced wasn't so widely expected. Commonly thought…

Matt Walls (Bora-Hansgrohe) won Gran Piemonte in a bunch sprint in Borgosesia, beating Giacomo Nizzolo (Qhubeka) and Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma) to the line after a chaotic final kilometre. The Olympic omnium champion held his nerve in a chaotic finale, where some fast men lost valuable ground while navigating a traffic island just past the flamme…

Miguel Angel López (Movistar) claimed a commanding victory at the 2021 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge, attacking some 12.5km from the summit of the Giant of Provence to win alone by nearly two-and-a-half minutes. Oscar Rodríguez (Astana-Premier Tech) held off Enric Mas at the top of the mountain to prevent a Movistar one-two, but the Spanish team…

Sestola owes its place on the sporting map to Alberto Tomba, who began his glorious downhill skiing career on its slopes. Thanks to his natural flamboyance as much as his technical brilliance, 'Tomba la Bomba' bestrode the world of alpine skiing in the 1980s and 1990s. On Tuesday's stage 4 at the Giro d'Italia, the day's main test was uphill rather…

Don't miss a moment from Paris-Roubaix and Unbound Gravel, to the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and everything in between when you join Outside+ . Pro cycling has returned from the coronavirus shutdown, and the new compressed UCI schedule means that races are now occurring at new points in the calendar, with many races overlapping…

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 2019 Tre Valli Varesine As we pick up the action, with just under 100km still to race, we have four riders in the breakaway with a lead of just over a minute on the peloton. They are: Michael Gogl (Trek Segafredo) Umberto Marengo (Neri Sottoli) Jose Herrada (Cofidis) Davide Ballerini…

This past Friday afternoon, Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) climbed his way to fourth on the queen stage of the Amgen Tour of California. While perhaps a little off what some expected of the Tasmanian, it was a solid result, and one that saw Porte ride to fifth overall by tour's end. As Dane Cash reports, 2019 has proven to be a tricky season for…

Live coverage of the penultimate stage of the 2019 Tirreno-Adriatico Hello there. It's the penultimate stage of Tirreno-Adriatico and, before the general classification is decided in tomorrow's time trial, today we have a rolling stage from Matelica to Jesi that should still come down to a bunch sprint. In the opening kilometres, a seven-man…

10 Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal), Volta a Catalunya stage three The peloton's most notorious breakaway specialist was up to his usual tricks this year - in fact, we could easily also have included on this list the stage at the Tour de Romandie where he single-handedly defied the expected bunch sprint to win by over two minutes. But the way he…

Giant-Alpecin all-rounder Dumoulin put in a series of stinging attacks on the decisive climb of the Alto de Puig Llorença at the business end of the 168km stage from Torrevieja, the 24-year-old Dutchman finally rounding Tour de France champion Froome in the last 50 metres to take the biggest win of his career. Team Sky's Froome looked destined to…