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.
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Mathieu van der Poel collapsed in the Arenberg, Filippo Ganna did acrobatics, and Wout van Aert finally out-sprinted Tadej Pogačar for a tearful, redemptive victory in the Roubaix velodrome.
Paris-Roubaix is entirely flat, but the damage is done through 55km of attritional cobble-based trauma. We break down the 123rd Hell of the North, the heavyweight favorites, and the women’s velodrome finale.
It wouldn’t be the eve of Paris-Roubaix without the UCI sticking their noses into something. Days before the Hell of the North, the governing body has officially banned Visma-Lease a Bike’s in-race tire pressure management system on a corporate technicality.
Tadej Pogačar inches closer to a Monument sweep, Demi Vollering enacts the ultimate revenge plot on the cobbles, and half the peloton might lose their driver’s licenses over a commuter train. Here are five things we learned from a totally unhinged 110th edition of De Ronde.
Probably not. Don’t think he’ll win Roubaix next weekend, even. We mean no discredit to him with this statement. Better…
The ritual of shaving your legs is as sacred to cycling as overpriced espresso. But where do you actually stop? From the mid-thigh fade to the full “pro” look, here is our definitive guide to the various lengths of the cycling shave.
There is a beautiful hypocrisy at the heart of the Spring Classics. Pro mechanics are ditching aerodynamics for “Frankenstein” setups involving 1x drivetrains and double-wrapped tape just to survive the cobbles of Flanders.