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The future is purple: behind the scenes at Liv AlUla Jayco
Liv AlUla Jayco, Australia’s only top-division women’s team, are ready to take on the world. Rouleur gets in the team car at their home race and discovers why...
From WorldTour rejection to Giro d'Italia stage hunting: Mark Donovan is back at cycling's top table
The Q36.5 rider has had a near-three-year hiatus from cycling's Grand Tours, but now riding better than ever he's once again looking to be in...
Mads Pedersen is at the peak of his powers
A second stage win and a return to the maglia rosa is a fitting reward for a rider in some of his best ever form
Giro d'Italia 2025 stage four preview: A fast finish in Lecce
A chance for the pure sprinters to take a stage win as the Giro resumes in Italy's heel
The Dilemma: Should Primož Roglič give away the Giro d'Italia pink jersey?
The Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe rider will next be able to take time on his rivals during stage seven's mountain-top finish and stage nine's gravel. Does he...
La Reina: Demi Vollering is exactly where she belongs
The Dutchwoman’s victory in La Vuelta España Femenina is a product of exemplary teamwork from FDJ-Suez
Giro d'Italia 2025 stage three preview: A tough Albanian farewell
A stage full of climbing will keep the GC contenders on their toes, but it could be a day for an escape group to grab...
The Giro's opening stage was as chaotic and stressful as the peloton had predicted
It's the first time that Albania has hosted top-level cycling, and most teams and riders had been unimpressed by the host country in the days...
Insatiable Mads Pedersen keeps Classics momentum going at Giro d'Italia: 'I'm hungry for more'
The former world champion credited his latest victory to the tireless work of his Lidl-Trek teammates. Continue in this manner, and the Dane could rack...
Giro d'Italia 2025 stage two preview: Against the clock
The first individual time trial of the Giro presents an opportunity for early gains in the general classification
Giro d’Italia 2025 contenders: who will win the 108th edition?
Rouleur takes a look at the contenders to win the Maglia Rosa in Italy this month
Giro d'Italia 2025 stage one preview: A sprint for pink?
The opening stage of the Giro d'Italia will be a tightly fought contest between the sprinters and the attackers for the first maglia rosa of...
Can comeback queen Anna van der Breggen win the Vuelta a España Feminina?
Team SD Worx-Protime rider takes her 63rd career victory at stage four of La Vuelta a España Femenina, four years after her last win
Front row seat: A wild Strade Bianche VIP chase with Sportive Breaks
Rouleur joins Sportive Breaks for a hair-raising, behind-the-scenes dash around the gravel roads of Tuscany following, seeing and experiencing the chaos of Strade Bianche
Richard Carapaz returns to the Giro d'Italia as a former winner — and an underdog
Richard Carapaz will head into the 2025 Giro d’Italia as one of the pre-eminent GC riders of his day, a former winner of the race...
Giro d’Italia route 2025: Everything you need to know about the stages of this year's race
The white roads of Strade Bianche, fearsome mountain passes and a Balkan Grande Partenza
XDS Astana's Great Escape is definitely on: 'Why shouldn't we be confident?'
Alexander Vinokourov's team are making the impossible rather quite possible
La Vuelta a España Femenina preview: Who can challenge Demi Vollering for the red jersey?
All the essential information about the first Grand Tour of the year
The Lion King, digging deep, and reclaiming rainbows: Question Time with Ellen van Dijk
Get to know Lidl-Trek's Dutch star
‘There’s a lack of support for retired riders’ - Grace Brown on navigating life after racing
While the former Olympic and World champion is relishing new ventures in retirement, she is keen to ensure more support is in place for those...
Sprint dominance, cobbled mayhem and Ardennes surprises - rating the women's teams at the Spring Classics
From SD Worx-Protime's continued success to Canyon-SRAM's disappointment, Rouleur takes a look at how each squad performed at the Spring Classics
Alpecin and UAE delight but Visma and Red Bull struggle - rating the teams' performances at the Spring Classics
With the curtains closing on the Spring Classics, Rouleur looks back on the winners and losers of this year's campaign
How to watch and live stream the Giro d'Italia 2025
A guide to where you can catch all the Giro d'Italia action from home or on the go
Writing history: Why Kim Le Court’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège win is so important
The Mauritian trailblazer took the biggest victory of her career on Sunday after a challenging road to the top of the sport
The race for second place: It is time for a new approach to try and beat Tadej Pogačar
Another solo win for the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider in Liège–Bastogne–Liège once again highlights that the rest of the peloton needs to anticipate rather than...
From the Editor: No. 135 - Giro
Dear Reader, Johnny Green was the former road manager of the Clash, a sardonic, literate, poetic and sharply dressed chancer from Kent whose natural habitat...
Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025 men’s preview - the final Ardennes showdown between Pogačar and Evenepoel
Rouleur looks at the contenders for the fourth Monument of the season
Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes 2025 Preview - Can Demi Vollering finally get her win?
The last round of Ardennes week is the toughest challenge yet – who will come out on top?
My ongoing three-year battle with cancer, by Lidl-Trek manager Luca Guercilena
Lidl-Trek manager Luca Guercilena was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the autumn of 2021 aged 48, an aggressive but treatable type of chronic cancer. For...
‘I listened to my DS for a change’ - Perseverance has finally paid off for Puck Pieterse
Fenix-Deceuninck rider claims her first Classics win at La Flèche Wallonne

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