The season is over, the points have been counted and the decision is all but official: Lotto-Soudal and Israel-Premier Tech – the team of four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome – will be relegated from the top tier of road racing.
As the cycling season races to a conclusion, cycling’s governing body confirmed that it will stick to its relegation system for the next round of WorldTour racing licenses. The UCI said in a statement released on September 9 that it would enforce its ranking system…
Every sporting event in the world needs to have some rules. Otherwise, what’s the point? Who wins if there are no rules to tell you? How do you prevent cheating? Actually, there can’t be cheating if there are no rules but that’s something we can…
Run by former and current professional riders, The Cyclists’ Alliance (TCA) seeks to provide holistic support to female cyclists during and after their careers. They aim to level the playing field and help the hard-working women of today’s peloton make a living from the sport.
Covid-19 was not the only reason the 2020 racing season will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. There was also an unusually large number of serious accidents, starting with Fabio Jakobsen’s horrific crash in the Tour de Pologne, in which the race barriers collapsed…
The UCI is continuing its long (and probably futile) lobbying effort to have cyclocross become an Olympic sport. But the world governing body for sports cycling is not targeting the Summer Games for the sport as one might have expected but wants ‘cross to become…
The Dutch sprinter (24) has deviated from his line and caused a serious crash of Fabio Jakobsen (24) during the opening stage of the Tour of Poland in August. He has not raced since and has now been suspended from racing for nine months. The…
