It’s the 50th anniversary of the polka dot jersey and whether or not you knew this already, you might be tired of hearing it ...

iPhone/iPad users should push and hold down a finger here , wait for the pop up message and select “Copy Link”. Then on your ...

In a press release cycling’s governing body said One Cycling was “incompatible with the governance and regulatory framework of the UCI as well as lacking sporting coherence” which is a polite way of ...

TotalEnergies will join Ineos as a co-sponsor, with the French oil major appearing on the jersey in time for the Tour de France next week. There’s no news from the team on this yet but it is on the ...

Here are the tables showing how many UCI points are available in every kind of road race. It’s not the stuff of dreams, but if you need to know how many UCI points are on offer in hurry it can be a ...

Mathieu van der Poel has signed two deals, one to keep him with the Alpecin-Deceuninck until 2028, the other with bike brand Canyon for ten years. The UCI has also announced a plan to introduce budget ...

Richie Porte has just won the Tour Down Under and collects 500 UCI points, as many if he’d won Paris-Nice or the Tour de Suisse. A rankings system in pro cycling often seems pointless, it’s a ...

It doesn’t matter who the team is – Ineos, JV, the next one – if we want the TdF (and sometimes other grand tours – this year’s Vuelta, I strongly suspect) not to feature one (or more) team strangling ...

Hayter had a bad time last year, a broken collarbone saw him sit out the summer when everything pointed to him being in Ineos’s Tour team, although there were not many stages for him; he might be back ...

A look at a the budget for a World Tour team, this time it’s Groupama-FDJ. The French team publishes detailed accounts with info all the way down to how much Lapierre and its parent company pay for ...

Weather: a cool 8°C and the start and reaching 17°C by the finish and sunny most of the way.Almost no wind, just a slight 7-8km/h onshore breeze along the coast which means a slight tailwind for the ...

The thing to remember is that whatever happens, nothing really happens. For the spectator, the only noticeable effect is the mildly amusing diversion of watching Astana’s multiple riders charging to ...