Sir Dave Brailsford’s 2020 season preview In an exclusive interview from the Team’s winter training camp in Gran Canaria, Brailsford spoke at length about a number of topics, including his thoughts on the upcoming season, the Team’s Grand Tour aspirations, the role of the fans and much, much more. Chris Froome looks ahead to 2020 In his first interview of 2020, Chris Froome gives us the latest update on his training and recovery, his Tour de France focus, plus a ‘thank you’ message for the fans. Richard Carapaz: The first interview New signing Richard Carapaz discusses his target of winning…
Author: Henri Giroud
Henri Giroud
Fifty years of pro cycling journalism and television commentary. It gets easier after the first forty years.
You don’t get to be World Champion on your own. Trek-Segafredo’s Lizzie Deignan is the first to admit it takes a village. This doesn’t take away from the triumph, it adds to it. And so it is with all of the best things in life: they’re better when they’re shared, and they’re impossible when they’re not. This is a story about what really matters. Not the wins, not the trophies, not even the stripes—but the relationships you forge on your way to achieving them, and how partners, friends, and teammates can become family.
Vuelta CV Féminas (Sunday 9th), nine-day ‘stage’ (10th-18th) in Alicante and aero / material testing in Navarra (ends Friday) mark busy calendar of events for Blues this month The women’s Movistar Team will be starting their 2020 season this week as they pin their numbers for the first competition of the year, the Vuelta CV Féminas (Sunday 9th; 97.7km from Paterna to Valencia), and some key activities for the whole, 11-woman roster managed by Sebastián Unzué and Jorge Sanz. The Blues have spent the last two days into TT testing, adjusting biomechanical profiles and trying out new materials, at the Tafalla velodrome in…
The reigning World Champion pens two more years with Trek-Segafredo through the end of 2022. Mads Pedersen, the reigning road World Champion, has signed a two-year contract extension with Trek-Segafredo and will continue to represent the US-registered team throughout the end of the 2022 season. The new agreement sees the 24-year-old Dane commit to a six-year tenure at Trek-Segafredo, where he has been honing his skills as a professional cyclist since 2017. The support and belief showed to him by Trek-Segafredo management since the very beginning was a key factor that led Pedersen to commit to the extension: “Luca (Guercilena)…
On 3 July 2021, the Tour de France will venture farther north than ever before when it reaches the 70-kilometre mark in the second Danish stage, from Roskilde to Nyborg. The profiles of the first three stages were unveiled this morning in Vejle, another town that will host the 108th edition of the race. The show will get on the road in the capital of the country, Copenhagen, which is known as the most cycling-friendly city on Earth. The Tour de France has explored all sorts of coasts, from beaches, harbours and cliffs to rocky inlets, dykes and bays. In…
Polish road race champion Michał Paluta will make his CCC Team debut at Etoile de Bessèges, the five-stage race commencing on 5 February. With a solid roster, including sprinters Jakub Mareczko and Jonas Koch, and two Polish debutants, Kamil Małecki and Paluta, the team will aim for a strong start to the season, Sports Director Fabio Baldato, who won this race in 2003, said. “When you look at the route of Etoile de Bessèges, you will see that our fastest guys, Mareczko and Koch, will definitely have the opportunity to show off. That’s why we are bringing a young but…
Highlights from the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Dubendorf. Junior Women Junior Men U23 Women U23 Men Elite Women Elite Men
“We were always in the right moves. Collectively, we started the race exactly the way we wanted. We were in control. I attacked on the ridge road after Quentin Jaurégui and François Bidard set me up. Behind, the race was really heating up. I knew I had very good legs, and behind us we had Clément Venturini, able to control the situation in the pack. We had a lot of cards to play, so we might as well take the brakes off the race. I was maybe more concerned about Tom Devriendt than anyone. He’s a friend of Oliver’s (Naesen),…