Franziska Koch ruined Visma-Lease a Bike’s perfect Sunday, out-sprinting Marianne Vos and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to claim a brilliant, career-defining victory in the Roubaix velodrome.
Author: Henri Giroud
Henri Giroud
Fifty years of pro cycling journalism and television commentary. It gets easier after the first forty years.
The Tour of Flanders is here. This Sunday, the peloton takes on the steepest, most miserable farm roads in Western Europe. We break down the Kwaremont, the Koppenberg, and the absolute bloodbath expected between MVDP, WVA, Pogačar, and Remco.
Gent-Wevelgem changed its name to “In Flanders Fields,” but the crosswinds are still going to destroy the peloton. We preview the route, the Kemmelberg cobbles, and the heavy hitters looking to survive the chaos this Sunday.
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.
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…