Everything you need to know about the 2026 Milan-San Remo. We break down the 298km route, the Poggio, top contenders like Pogačar and Van der Poel, and how to watch live.
Author: Henri Giroud
Henri Giroud
Fifty years of pro cycling journalism and television commentary. It gets easier after the first forty years.
After years of governing body neglect and the scandalous collapse of USACrits, the American domestic racing scene is finally showing signs of life. Driven entirely by grassroots promoters, the American Criterium Cup is stepping up to drag US crit racing back into the spotlight.
For an organization that used to ruthlessly calculate every marginal gain on the road, the modern INEOS Grenadiers setup often looks a little bit chaotic. Take Tuesday morning at Paris-Nice, for example. During their routine recon for the Stage 3 Team Time Trial, the squad managed to crash. Oscar Onley described it in perfect corporate PR speak after the race, noting that the team “had a bit of a scare” and “found the limits this morning.” Translation: they binned it in the corners before the clock had even started. But whatever panic ensued in the INEOS team cars apparently worked.…
We don’t usually look to XDS Astana for a masterclass in sprint organization these days. But on Stage 2 of Paris-Nice, the squad pulled off a minor miracle, navigating a wildly sketchy finale to deliver Max Kanter to his first-ever WorldTour victory. The press release insists it was a “perfect lead-out.” Anyone actually watching the broadcast knows it was absolute chaos. The peloton hit the final run-in to Montargis completely strung out, battling a frantic sequence of roundabouts that unceremoniously spat pre-race favorites like Biniam Girmay out the back. With two kilometers to go, Kanter and his team were effectively…
There is a very specific type of psychological warfare that elite cyclists deploy when they want to completely demoralize their rivals. It usually involves crushing everyone’s hopes and dreams on the road, and then casually complaining to the press about having a bad day. Filippo Ganna gave us a masterclass in this exact tactic on Monday afternoon in Lido di Camaiore. The Italian powerhouse stomped his way through the opening 11.5-kilometer time trial of Tirreno-Adriatico, stopping the clock at a blistering 12 minutes and eight seconds. To put that into perspective, he beat his own teammate, Thymen Arensman, by a…
Report We all knew it was coming. The directors in the team cars knew it, the fans choking on dust alongside the Tuscan gravel knew it, and every single rider gasping for air in the peloton knew exactly what was about to happen. Tadej Pogačar was going to attack on the Monte Sante Maria. And yet, when the reigning World Champion inevitably pulled the pin with an absurd 79 kilometers still left to race, nobody could do a damn thing about it. In what was officially his very first race day of the 2026 season, Pogačar didn’t just win his…
Every cyclist has heard the old-school advice: keep your legs fresh by keeping them crossed. No sex in the days leading up to a major race keeps you fit and focused. Nothing like a good yoni to drain your essence and sap your aggression. Turns out that’s false. Which is strange, because it sounds so plausible. Scientists have conducted some kind of study that presumably involved having a lot of sex (yes please) and riding a lot of bikes (this is starting to sound like a great week). And their conclusion is that apparently a pre-ride roll in the hay…
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