The Dutchwoman won against all the odds after a broken elbow on Wednesday. Her unexpected attack with 1km to go in Wollongong gave her a fourth World title. She will wear the rainbow bands with the Movistar Team for her pro final season in 2023. A Day We Will Never Forget The same emotions that 30th September 2018 brought us came back on 24th September 2022, a morning (European time!) which will forever remain in the memory. It couldn’t be other than the most brilliant rider in a generation, Annemiek van Vleuten. With one kilometer remaining on the 164km course…
Author: Henri Giroud
Henri Giroud
Fifty years of pro cycling journalism and television commentary. It gets easier after the first forty years.
Love too have the world championships on at like 2am. It’s my favorite. Women Ellen van Dijk blasted through the 34.2-kilometer course in Wollongong to win her third World Championship individual time trial title. The Dutch time trial specialist took a second successive victory at the UCI World Championships. It was a tight race, but not between the expected favorites, compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten and rival time trial specialist Marlen Reusser, who had beaten Ellen at the European Championships in August. It was, in fact, Australian Grace Brown who surprised everyone by setting the quickest time in the two time…
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. INEOS Grenadiers’ double world time-trial champion–FILIPPO GANNA–will attempt to break the UCI Hour Record at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland on 8 October 2022 at 8PM CEST. The 26-year-old Italian will need to cover more than 55.548 kilometres to break the current world record, held by Ganna’s INEOS Grenadiers team mate and Performance Engineer Dan Bigham. Ganna, sporting the UCI rainbow bands for a second consecutive year, has consistently proven himself one of the fastest cyclists on the planet against the clock, so it was only a matter of time before…
The keystone event for the bike and alternative mobility worlds officially opened today at the Misano World Circuit, which will host the expo’s three-day run. Record figures abounded with over 500 sector brands present in addition to a long list of entertainment spaces that will stage the side events being run by the organisers and companies showing. Bike tourism and new urban mobility solutions have plenty of dedicated space also. The fifth edition of the IBF officially opened today at its new Misano World Circuit venue. Over 30,000 visitors are expected to immerse themselves in a three-day expo experience that…
Primoz Roglic has missed the 17th stage of the Vuelta a España after crashing on Tuesday. The 32-year-old Slovenian, three times winner of the Spanish stage race, was severely affected by his injuries. Team Jumbo-Visma was unable to compete for the stage win in the hilly stage to Monasterio de Tentudía. “Primoz was in a lot of pain last night”, Jumbo Visma sports director Addy Engels said about the crash’s consequences. “That is also why he did not appear at the start today. His medical scans this morning showed no fractures but did show several bruises and abrasions. Pain and…
After 12 years as a professional cyclist, Leah Kirchmann will hang up her wheels at the end of 2022; with the Simac Ladies Tour her last planned race with Team DSM before she races the World Championships with Canada. Spending time with Colavita Forno D’Asolo as her first team before four years honing her craft on the American racing scene with Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies; Kirchmann made the move across the pond fully to join the Team DSM structure in 2016, then known as Team Liv-Plantur. Immediately finding her feet with the team, 2016 saw the punchy Kirchmann take…
Global travel and VIP experience provider Sportive Breaks has been appointed as the Official Fan and Amateur Participant Travel Provider of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. The 2023 UCI Cycling Worlds are set to take place in Glasgow and across Scotland from 3rd to 13th August 2023. Sportive Breaks has a wealth of experience working across major events and will provide fans and amateur participants with travel, accommodation, and VIP experiences the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. The event will be the first of its kind, combining 13 existing UCI World Championships into one mega-event. In uniting the global…
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the Colombian rider Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas has been sanctioned for an infringement of the in-competition ban on using tramadol as set out in the UCI Medical Rules with the aim of protecting the safety and health of riders in light of the side-effects of this substance. The analyses of two dried blood samples provided by the rider on 8 and 13 July during the 2022 Tour de France revealed the presence of tramadol and its two main metabolites. In accordance with the UCI Medical Rules, the rider is disqualified from the 2022…